Blindsided

Freya Cook hems clothes for a living in London and keeps her own love life on the back burner. Her closest friend is Maclay Logan, a brash, tattooed footballer who treats her flat like his second home. Neither of them has ever named what draws them together on their quiet nights in.

A round of Never Have I Ever gives it away: Freya has barely dated, let alone slept with anyone. Startled, Mac offers himself as her coach, walking her through flirting, then dates, then more, sure he can keep his own feelings out of it.

He can't, and neither can she. Lessons turn into jealousy neither one planned for, and nights that blur every line they had drawn between friends. Freya has to decide whether she trusts a man who has already seen every awkward version of her.

Blindsided is the second book in Amy Daws' Harris Brothers World, a London-set friends-to-lovers romance built on banter as much as heat, and it reads as a standalone.