The Long Way to Forever

Blurb

Helena Pires has everything: Beauty, quiet confidence, a dancer's grace, and a magnetic charm that pulls people in without trying. But love? Real, vulnerable, terrifying love? She's never let herself go there.
Courtney Reyes is her opposite-soft, anxious, stubborn, and hopelessly in love with a girl who pretends not to notice. When jealousy, rumors, and heartbreak push Courtney to the edge, Helena becomes the one who pulls her back... and the one who crosses the line into a friends-with-benefits arrangement neither of them is ready to admit feels like more.
What begins as casual spirals into something neither girl can name.
Feelings slip out through kisses.
Confessions hide in the quiet moments after.
But when distance, college, and the army tear them apart, their almost-love becomes a long-distance ache neither can shake.
From FWB to forbidden feelings, from messy breakups to army graduations, from slow-burn pining to tearful reunions-Helena and Courtney fight, fall apart, grow up, and find their way back to each other again and again.
Because some people aren't just chapters.
They're home.
And Helena and Courtney?
They were always meant to take the long way to forever.