Friend Ship by Rebecca James

Friend Ship is a new adult novel that takes place in Thailand. It is book four in a series but can be read as a stand alone.

Can two best friends play lovers in front of the camera?
The only reason Mee Noi agrees to help Sud with his video exam for theater arts is because Sud insists Mee Noi is the only guy he can convincingly do a love scene with. Neither of them expect the project to turn into an offer to play a couple in a boys’ love series, but that’s exactly what happens. Since it’s Sud’s big chance to make his dream of being an actor a reality, Mee Noi is determined to make it work. But although acting is surprisingly fun, it’s also stressful and exhausting, especially when you don’t know what you’re doing, and soon it begins to take both a physical and a psychological toll on Mee Noi as painful memories from the past begin to surface.

When Sud’s video project wins him and Mee Noi an audition for a bl series, it’s a dream come true. But he’s pretty sure it’s more of a nightmare for his introverted friend, who only got into this to help Sud out. Yet Mee Noi accepts the part when it’s offered, and the gesture adds to the budding feelings Sud’s starting to have for his best friend. When Mee Noi has a frightening panic attack at work, Sud tells himself that he must bury those feelings. Mee Noi hasn’t had an easy life; the last thing Sud wants to do is put more pressure on him.

The worst irony would be for them to play friends to lovers in the series only to have their real friendship end as a result.