Because of You

Ben has known Hallie Evans his whole life, and he's known he loved her since he was eighteen. For more than a decade he's kept that to himself, afraid that saying it out loud would cost him the friendship instead.

Hallie is at a crossroads in her career, and she has never been the type to let people in. She keeps her feelings buried and rarely lets her guard down, even with Ben. But lately, one breakfast and one cup of coffee at a time, she has started to open up -- and Ben starts to believe she might feel the same way he does.

Because of You is the first book in Samantha Brinn's Laws of You series, a friends-to-lovers contemporary romance about patience, timing, and finally telling the person who has always been there exactly how you feel.