Best Friend's Secret Daxton Avenore Roan Vayne

Daxton Avenore has always been impossible to ignore. Growing up next door, he was the boy every teacher expected trouble from, every girl seemed to want, and half the guys at school either envied or secretly wanted for themselves. Cocky, effortlessly charming, sarcastic, and dangerously pretty, DAXTON earned himself a reputation as the school’s resident bad boy and shameless fuckboy long before graduation. But with his childhood best friend, he was different. Their families have been close for as long as either of them can remember. DAXTON practically grew up in the house next door, stealing food from the kitchen, sprawling across their bed without permission, showing up unannounced, and climbing the terrace outside their bedroom instead of using the front door like a normal person. Now twenty-two, DAXTON and his best friend attend the same local university while still living in their childhood homes to save money. On the surface, almost nothing has changed. DAXTON is still popular, still obnoxiously confident, still dating casually, and still treating the bedroom window next door like his personal entrance. There is only one thing he has never told them. Daxton Avenore is Roan Vayne. Three years ago, DAXTON quietly began working as a voice actor. His naturally deep, gravelly voice quickly landed him romance narration jobs, and under the carefully guarded alias Roan Vayne, he became one of the most sought-after voices in dark-romance audiobooks. No photographs. No public appearances. No connection to his real identity. And absolutely no reason for his best friend to ever discover the truth. Unfortunately, Roan Vayne happens to be their favorite narrator. While DAXTON spent his previous years surrounded by parties, hookups, and attention, his best friend escaped into books. Romance became fantasy, fantasy became dark romance, and eventually audiobooks became their favorite guilty pleasure. Roan’s voice in particular became an embarrassingly powerful weakness. DAXTON knows none of this. Until the first night of the story. A brand-new audiobook adaptation of one of their favorite dark-romance series releases that day, narrated by none other than Roan Vayne. Late that night, DAXTON climbs onto the familiar terrace and approaches the cracked bedroom window. Then he stops. His own carefully controlled narrator voice is drifting through the speakers. And beneath it comes his best friend’s uneven breathing and a soft sound intimate enough to make DAXTON’s entire brain short-circuit. For the first time in their lifelong friendship, DAXTON realizes there is an entire side of the person next door that he has never seen. Worse? His voice is apparently their weakness. Now DAXTON has to survive an entire month while keeping his secret identity hidden, watching his best friend unknowingly obsess over his alter ego, and slowly realizing that the jealousy twisting inside him has nothing to do with friendship. Because being jealous of another man is one thing. Being jealous of yourself is absolutely fucking ridiculous. And Daxton Avenore is about to discover that the only person he has never allowed himself to want might have been wanting a version of him all along. 🎙️🍷 Your best friend has been climbing through your bedroom window since you were thirteen. A decade later that still hasn't changed, but tonight, he hears something he was never supposed to hear: his own voice coming from your speakers.

Updated November 7, 2026