Marie is sitting on the other side of my mother and it is times like these, when the two of them are right next to each other, facing the same direction, that I realize just how much they look alike. One of their daughters is taking over the family business. They have raised two children and run a successful bookstore together. My parents have been married for thirty-five years. She has always been childlike in her zeal for surprises. She knows that a tiny cake with a candle and a song are coming any minute. My mother is sitting next to him in a gauzy white blouse and khakis, trying to hold in a smile. He is wearing his favorite sweater, a hunter green cashmere one that my older sister, Marie, and I picked out for him two years ago. I am finishing up dinner with my family and my fiancé when my husband calls. Who is her one true love? What does it mean to love truly?Įmma knows she has to listen to her heart. With a husband and a fiancé, Emma has to now figure out who she is and what she wants, while trying to protect the ones she loves. He’s alive, and he’s been trying all these years to come home to her. When Emma and Sam get engaged, it feels like Emma’s second chance at happiness. Years later, now in her thirties, Emma runs into an old friend, Sam, and finds herself falling in love again.

Just like that, Jesse is gone forever.Įmma quits her job and moves home in an effort to put her life back together. On their first wedding anniversary, Jesse is on a helicopter over the Pacific when it goes missing. They travel the world together, living life to the fullest and seizing every opportunity for adventure. They build a life for themselves, far away from the expectations of their parents and the people of their hometown in Massachusetts. In her twenties, Emma Blair marries her high school sweetheart, Jesse. “Reid's heartwrenching tale asks if it ’ s possible to have multiple soul mates.” - Us Weeklyįrom the author of Maybe in Another Life-named a People Magazine pick-comes a breathtaking new love story about a woman unexpectedly forced to choose between the husband she has long thought dead and the fiancé who has finally brought her back to life.

“Earth-shaking…you will flip for this epic love story.” - Cosmopolitan “No one does life and love better.” - InStyle

Named a Best Book of Summer by Cosmopolitan * InStyle * Redbook * Us Weekly * PopSugar * BuzzFeed * Bustle * Brit+Co * Parade * Now a major film! * Author of the New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo *

One true loves book