When Javi Dumped Mari - by Mia Sosa (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

A Most Anticipated Book of 2025

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The USA Today bestselling author of The Worst Best Man is back with a fun and flirty rom-com about a pact between friends that goes awry when one of them suddenly decides to get married.

Two best friends. One wedding to stop. Countless shenanigans.

On the eve of their college graduation, best friends Javier Báez and Marisol Campos swore never to date someone the other doesn't approve of. Now, almost a decade later, Javi has a problem. Mari, the woman he's secretly pined for since sophomore year, is engaged--and Javi didn't even get the chance to vet the Pedro Pascal knockoff she plans to marry.

A successful entertainment lawyer in Los Angeles, Mari is no longer seeking Javi's dating advice or waiting for him to declare his love for her. Instead, she's made a different pact--with herself. And to succeed, Mari's vowing to build a future with someone else.

With his life and theater career finally on track, Javi's ready to confess his feelings. Except Mari's changed the script and moved on without him. Javi has just six weeks to convince Mari this marriage is a flop. If that means he needs to ruffle some feathers to help her avert a disaster, well, he's up for the challenge. After all, isn't that what best friends are for?

Review Quotes

One of Nerd Daily's Must-Read Swoonworthy Books of 2025

"A welcome return from Sosa in a rom-com homage to When Harry Met Sally and My Best Friend's Wedding. Press into the hands of readers who love romances with past and present timelines." --Library Journal

"A sexy, banter-filled, humorous ride that rom-com lovers are sure to adore. This book kept me on the edge of my seat until the very last page." --Gabriella Gamez, USA Today bestselling author of The Next Best Fling

"Full of heart and hijinks, When Javi Dumped Mari is Mia Sosa at her most delightful. I wish she'd write my love story!" --Adib Khorram, USA Today bestselling author of I'll Have What He's Having

"I want to live inside a Mia Sosa romantic comedy! Full of so many hilarious moments that are sandwiched between careful, emotional development, When Javi Dumped Mari is not a novel I will soon forget. . . . Is anyone funnier than Mia Sosa? Rhetorical question--no, no there is not! Bold, funny, and dynamic Mia Sosa has written another banger!" --Danica Nava, USA Today bestselling author of The Truth According to Ember

"Full of chemistry, humor, yearning, heat, and raw emotion, Mia Sosa has written an addictive friends to lovers romance. The will-they-won't-they drama had me hanging by a thread! Every page was infused with delicious tension; there are scenes in this book that are going to live rent free in my head, and I'm not mad about it." -Aurora Palit, author of Sunshine and Spice and Honey and Heat

"The Queen of Rom-Coms does it again! When Javi Dumped Mari is chock-full of the sorts of outrageous hijinks only Mia Sosa could pull off, along with the signature steaminess her readers know and love. Javi and Mari are my favorite kind of friends to lovers--two people who, despite their mutual adoration, have valid reasons keeping them apart . . . until their perfectly timed HEA, of course! Blending humor, spice, and drama, Sosa once again delivers romantic comedy gold." --Alexis Daria, bestselling author of You Had Me at Hola

"With When Javi Dumped Mari, Mia Sosa adds yet another sexy, fun, and satisfying romance to her oeuvre. The expertly deployed dual timeline heightened the yearning and made the arc of Javi and Mari's relationship feel epic. I was dying for these characters to get out of their own way, and I savored it from beginning to end." --Rachel Runya Katz, author of Whenever You're Ready

"When Javi Dumped Mari has it all. It's funny and sexy, and delivers an incredibly satisfying happily ever after. The perfect homage to the one that got away." --Neely Tubati Alexander, author of Courtroom Drama

"With When Javi Dumped Mari, Sosa pens a sublime romance that leaps off the page with humor, heart and heat. Her ability to craft the perfect rom com is the best I've ever seen." --Tracey Livesay, author of the American Royalty series

"[Mia Sosa's] hot and swoony romances are always ones that we know we're gonna obsess over as soon as we pick them up. So it's not too surprising to see that her next one hits the same just from the first page." --Cosmopolitan

About the Author

Mia Sosa is a USA Today bestselling author of romantic comedies and contemporary romances that celebrate our multicultural world. She has received praise from The Washington Post, Bustle, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, Popsugar, Buzzfeed, Oprah Daily, and many more. A New York City native, she now lives in Maryland with her college sweetheart, their two book-obsessed daughters, a gentle Cavalier King Charles spaniel, and one adorable rescue cat that rules them all.