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By Christina Lauren

Whenever I encounter someone who says, “I don’t read romance novels,” I tell them to read this book. 

Macy and Elliot met in their early teens when Macy’s family bought a house next door. They bonded over a love of reading and forged a friendship that became their lifeline. Over the next few years, their friendship slowly and tenderly transforms into more. But, everything comes to a halt, and one fateful day they run into each other at a coffee shop a decade later. Will it be a second chance, or will the events that tore them apart be too much?

This book is told in two timelines. In alternating chapters, we follow Macy and Elliot as adults navigating the pain of the past and as teens discovering friendship and love. What tore them apart looms large over the entirety of the book, with the threads weaving together late in the novel in a significant way. 

You cannot help but root for Macy and Elliot – both as teens and adults. This book has all of the butterflies of first love and the complexities of what it means to love as an adult.