Loving Rowan: A contemporary friends to lovers romance

Wendy Smith

Friends Duo Book 1 · Wendy Smith

About this eBook

Rowan loves Andrew.

Andrew loves Charlie.

The friendship between the three of them is shattered when Rowan finds Andrew and Charlie together.

Cutting them off is easy for the painfully shy and socially awkward Rowan.

When Kyle becomes her new best friend, she assumes that’s all he wants. Kyle has other ideas about the direction of their relationship.

But when tragedy strikes, Andrew’s not quite ready to let go of the girl who’s loved him most of her life.

And he’s prepared to do anything to keep her.

Previously published under the pen name Ariadne Wayne. Content warning on copyright page.

Keywords: New Zealand author, New Zealand setting, series starter, romance book, contemporary romance, free series starter, free book, free romance, happily ever after, HEA, free contemporary romance, free romance books, new adult, new adult book, free new adult book, standalone, no cliffhanger, friends to lovers

Ratings and reviews

Glad to see Rowan having found her own person to love and belong to. She is blessed to have someone like Kyle who is so patient and persevering all throughout her emotional issues and ordeal. So this is Andrew's backstory, one can't help but pity him no matter how messed up he was for being infatuated with the two girl bestfriends and not really knowing who to choose from, which in my opinion wasn't actually the true kind of love. Charlie, despite being at first chosen was kind of shortchanged here and never really was happy at the end. In another book Andrew did find his own self and Maddy. This interconnected series, though standalones in its own way makes you curious what happens next to the character that had pasts with the main characters.

I was completely adore this Book I think the thing that really made this So good for me was the way the story Continued to let all the past and future are dealt with.

Really liked the story. Felt the pace was a bit slow at times. Enjoyed the supense towards the end.

About the author

Wendy Smith published as Ariadne Wayne for three years before deciding she didn’t want to be someone else all the time. She’s an Apple Books and Nook bestselling author, whose book In the End, written as Ariadne Wayne, was named one of Apple’s best books of 2017. All her stories come with a quirky sense of humour, and she cries over everything.