{"product_id":"after-everything-octiwriter-en-9798259370142","title":"After Everything: An MM Ex-Friends to Lovers Romance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeven years ago, Jonah Hale shattered Eliot's world with one cruel sentence.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNow he's back, working behind the same café counter.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEliot Hayes has spent the last seven years burying the memory of his childhood best friend. The kiss that ruined everything. The public outing that turned him radioactive at school. The sudden disappearance that left him broken and alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen Jonah walks through the door asking for a job.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOlder. Harder. Carrying bruises no one else can see.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJonah is desperate to prove he's changed. Eliot just wants to survive the shift without remembering how safe he once around Jonah. But forced proximity has a way of cracking even the thickest walls-especially when late-night confessions and shared trauma start turning old pain into something dangerously tender.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a slow-burn MM ex-friends-to-lovers romance packed with raw emotion, second chances, and the kind of love that only survives after everything, two broken men must decide if the boy who once destroyed them can be the man who finally makes them whole.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePerfect for fans of emotional, angst-filled MM romance with heavy themes and a hard-earned HEA.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Octiwriter En\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798259370142\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/29\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 188\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.42lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.40d","brand":"Octiwriter En","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49173007499519,"sku":"9798259370142","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/after-everything-octiwriter-en-9798259370142","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}