Love Out Loud

Cover of Love Out Loud with tropes:
childhood friends to lovers
roommates
single mom
sunshine x sunshine
anxiety rep
later in life

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Twenty-five years of friendship. Ten years apart. One chance to love out loud.

Lark Caspian and Lennon Hollis have been best friends since their first Drama Club meeting in their freshman year of high school, and they’ve been inseparable ever since. Now, at forty, life has pulled them in different directions—Lark is a devoted mother and theater professor in Michigan, while Lennon has built a successful career as a sound engineer in Los Angeles.

Although they’ve remained close, it’s been a decade since they were last together. They miss each other. So when the narrator for Lennon’s latest audiobook project drops out, he presents Lark with a bold idea: fly to LA, record the audiobook, and spend time with him.

With her daughter off to college and a desire for something new, Lark jumps at the chance to reconnect with Lennon. But as she steps into the studio to record the steamy audiobook, sparks fly between them, and their lifelong friendship deepens into something more.

Caught between their growing feelings and the thousands of miles separating their lives, Lark and Lennon must decide if jumping in is worth risking the best relationship they’ve ever had. 

Can their love story survive the distance, or will this be the one script they can’t rewrite?


Praise for Love Out Loud

“Love Out Loud is a story that combines the magic of falling in love with the depth of a lifelong friendship. Samberts’ prose truly dances off the pages.”
-Hannah Bird, author of The Cost of Forgetting You


Possible content warnings:

  • Empty nest parent
  • Single mom
  • Divorce
  • Abandonment (as a child)
  • Anxiety