Playing with My Heart is an angsty MM contemporary romance about friendship, healing, and finding the courage to be vulnerable.

As an ER nurse, Brian spends his shifts saving lives while hiding just how hard he’s struggling to hold himself together. He's mastered the art of being the life of the party, always ready with a joke to lighten the mood. The only person who seems to see through the mask is David–his best friend and the one person he can't afford to lose.

David has spent the last five years pouring his heart into his music instead of saying the words he’s too afraid to speak out loud. Their friendship means everything to him, and he’s unwilling to risk it by confessing feelings that might not be returned.

When an intense depressive episode shatters Brian’s carefully constructed walls, the feelings they’ve both kept buried become impossible to ignore. But if Brian truly lets David in, he has to trust that once the mask comes off, David won't walk away.

~Tropes~

-Musician/ER nurse

-Best friends to lovers

-Damaged hero

-Hurt/Comfort

-Depression rep