New Crush, Same Best Friend

Macy never meant to fall for the one person who always felt safest. But when senior-year memories, one almost-kiss, and Kellan's scholarship future collide, best friendship may not be enough anymore.

Senior year was supposed to be simple for Macy: finish Brookhollow's legacy project, survive graduation, and protect the one part of her life that never made her doubt herself-her best friendship with Kellan.

But some feelings don't arrive like strangers. They grow quietly inside the safest places, waiting until one small moment changes how everything looks. Suddenly the boy who has always felt like home is the one person Macy can't think about clearly anymore. A late stairwell conversation, a folded note, a first kiss, and all the ordinary places they once shared begin to mean something new.

Kellan has spent too long pretending Macy is still the easy part of his life. The truth is, she stopped feeling simple a long time ago. And once he finally admits it, there is no going back to before. What should have been the sweetest part of senior year becomes harder when Kellan earns a life-changing chance at Northlake, the future he has wanted long before he was brave enough to say what Macy means to him.

Now Macy and Kellan are caught between the school they are about to leave, the quiet places that changed them, and the kind of love that asks for honesty before it offers ease. As graduation gets closer and one impossible week forces a choice neither of them wanted, they must decide whether first love is strong enough to survive truth, timing, and the future arriving all at once.

New Crush, Same Best Friend is a clean YA friends-to-lovers romance about senior year, brave confessions, and the ordinary moments that become unforgettable when the safest person in your life changes everything.