{"product_id":"wanted-you-anyway-ebook","title":"Pre-order: Wanted You Anyway (Ebook)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date: March 19, 2027\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eA Brother’s Best Friend Friends-to-Lovers Romance\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome things are worth the wait.\u003cbr\u003eStella Calloway just isn’t sure nine years qualifies as waiting… or quietly breaking her own heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe’s loved Finn Hartley for as long as she can remember.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt eighteen, she thought she was finally old enough for him.\u003cbr\u003eOld enough to be seen.\u003cbr\u003eOld enough to matter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe chose someone else.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo Stella did what she’s always done, she moved on. Built a life that was steady. Sensible. Safe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUntil it wasn’t.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNow, freshly out of a relationship that ended with all the emotion of a business meeting, she returns to Sable Cove looking for distance, clarity… and a summer that doesn’t ask too much of her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInstead, she gets Finn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer brother’s best friend.\u003cbr\u003eThe almost that never quite happened.\u003cbr\u003eThe one person she never really let go of.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFinn has spent years keeping his distance. Not because he didn’t want her but because wanting her was never the problem.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCaleb was.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer brother. His best friend.\u003cbr\u003eThe one man who made it clear that crossing that line would cost more than either of them could afford.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBecause if it all falls apart, Caleb doesn’t just lose one of them.\u003cbr\u003eHe loses both.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd Finn has never been the man who risks the people he loves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut time has a way of changing things.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBecause Stella isn’t eighteen anymore.\u003cbr\u003eAnd Finn isn’t pretending he doesn’t want her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat begins on the beach—slow, inevitable, impossible to stop—turns into something deeper than either of them planned. Something real. Something neither of them is ready to lose.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut real life doesn’t pause for perfect timing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDistance stretches between them.\u003cbr\u003eOld loyalties don’t disappear.\u003cbr\u003eAnd Caleb?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe hasn’t changed his mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis time, loving each other isn’t the risk.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLosing everything else might be.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBecause some love stories don’t happen when they’re supposed to.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome take years.\u003cbr\u003eSome take distance.\u003cbr\u003eSome take everything falling apart first.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd some?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHappen anyway.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWanted You Anyway is a slow-burn, brother’s best friend, friends-to-lovers romance set in a small coastal town,\u003cbr\u003ewhere history runs deep, timing never quite lines up…\u003cbr\u003eand some connections refuse to be ignored.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a story for the woman who’s ever felt overlooked.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe one who wondered if she’d ever be chosen,\u003cbr\u003enot almost, not someday… but fully.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBecause some love doesn’t fade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt waits.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd when it comes back?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt chooses you anyway.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom USA Today Bestselling Author Kathleen Kelly — who writes women that refuse to be overlooked\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kathleen Kelly Author","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43856030924861,"sku":null,"price":2.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0604\/8405\/9197\/files\/wanted_you_anyway.png?v=1792502528","url":"https:\/\/kathleenkellyauthor.com\/products\/wanted-you-anyway-ebook","provider":"Kathleen Kelly Author","version":"1.0","type":"link"}