When We Were Friends

Nancy Yeager

Oct 2022 · Red Adept Publishing, LLC

About this ebook

They were best friends. Sisters of the heart. Partners in crime. Until they got caught…

Five years ago, Frannie Willets committed grand larceny to help her best friend, Lexi Maddox, escape an awful situation. Now paroled and prospectless, Frannie needs to disappear from her dead-end life. To do so, she’ll need her share of the stolen money that Lexi has been hiding all these years. But Lexi has other plans.

By all appearances, Lexi is thriving, but in truth, nothing in her life is going according to plan. She can’t carry a pregnancy to term, her sweet stepdaughter hates her, and even the family’s new rescue dog knows she’s a failure. Lexi’s only path to happiness is making amends with the friend she dearly misses. But the only thing Frannie wants from Lexi is cash.

Out of desperation, Lexi offers Frannie all the money, with one catch: Frannie must stick around for one month. Stranded in their suffocating small town, Frannie gets tangled up in Lexi’s issues, her mother’s questionable dating life, a lonely kid’s desperate attempts to find friends, and a high-school crush’s fantasies about what could have been. Suddenly, leaving doesn’t look as easy as it once did. But when an old enemy surfaces, Frannie realizes her staying endangers everyone she loves. And even though she might have found her heart’s true home, there’s no guarantee she can keep it.

Ratings and reviews

was a good and interesting story which kept my attention thoughout. Not only is this about a past friendship, but also betrayal. There were a few surprises along the way, which gave this some heft. I often felt the tension and suspense, wondering what was to come. The flow and good pacing made this an easy read. I found the characters (re)actions in some scenes (especially some with the dog)pu a bit over the top and puzzling. Are these adults? I received a free copy via Booksprout.

About the author

Nancy Yeager spent her early years longing to be an English countryside vet, thanks to James Herriot’s All Creatures Great and Small book series, and dreaming of being an adventurous archaeologist like George Lucas’s Indiana Jones. After studying veterinary pre-med and earning an anthropology degree, she realized her true passion was story in all its forms.

Nancy now writes in multiple fiction genres. When she’s not reading, writing, or binge-watching stories, she’s often pursuing a physical challenge, like training for a triathlon or aspiring to achieve the perfect crow pose. She also spends her time drinking too much coffee, not enough red wine, and just the right amount of bourbon. She lives in Maryland with her fabulous family, which includes her demanding overlords, collectively known as The Cats.