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To Catch a Firefly

by Emmy Sanders

A friendship shaped by distance and unspoken love

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A friendship shaped by distance and unspoken love

Ellis and Lucky’s bond stretches back to childhood, but Ellis has kept his love for his best friend private. When Lucky returns to town, the familiar friendship is unsettled by new tension, bringing Ellis to a choice between silence and honesty. The dual-POV romance centers on long-held longing, the pull of home, and the difficulty of holding close someone who has always seemed destined to roam. Ellis is described as neurodivergent and selectively mute, a part of the character’s experience within this friends-to-lovers story.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in gay romance built around childhood friendship and a friends-to-lovers relationship.
  • Readers who enjoy dual-POV stories involving separation, return, and long-standing unspoken feelings.
  • Readers seeking a romance featuring a neurodivergent character with selective mutism.

Themes

Childhood friendshipUnspoken love and longingHome and independenceNeurodivergence and communication

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Book overview

He was my beginning. And my never-ending.

 

Ellis

There's a lot I've never told my best friend. The fact that I love him. That I miss him every day he's gone. That, sometimes, I ache for him with a ferocity that leaves me breathless.

 

Lucky Buchanan tore into my life as a boy, wild and daring, my opposite in every way. He drew me in, stole my heart without trying. He hears me, even though I rarely speak a word. But I always knew this place wouldn't be enough for my free-spirited friend. I knew he wasn't mine to keep.

 

So why, when I finally try to get over him, does he sweep back into town? Why is he upset? Why is there tension between us for the first time in years?

 

I never saw a future where Lucky could be mine. But now, unless I want to lose my friend, I might not have a choice but to tell the truth. My heart belongs to him. It has from the start.

 

If only I knew how to hold onto a creature that's meant to fly.

 

To Catch a Firefly is a standalone, childhood friends-to-lovers romance told in dual POV. There's epic levels of pining, a neurodivergent MC with selective mutism, two friends who always come back to one another, glass hearts and romantic declarations, and a HEA beneath the night sky.

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