Books

Available Formats

  • Hardcover (Full-colour secret casewrap design with dust jacket 5.5″ 8.5″, 280 pages)
  • Paperback (Perfect bound 5.5″ x 8.5″, 280 pages)
  • eBook (Kindle)

It’s Always Been You:
A Japanese Romance Collection

In Japan, there is a word for the person who has been there since before memory begins.

Osananajimi — more than just a childhood friend. The one who knew the real you before the world needed you to pretend. The one you were always yourself with.

Coming back to them is like coming home.

Seven stories inspired by anonymous internet confessions — the things people post in secret when they can’t say them out loud. Each reimagined as a story about desire that wasn’t fully recognised until now. About the terror of risking the one person you realise you can’t afford to lose. About what happens when you finally stop pretending you don’t know what you’ve always wanted.

“It’s Always Been You” will be released on 7 May, 2026

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