The heart may hide, but it never forgets. Macy Sorensen is settling into an ambitious if emotionally tepid routine: work hard as a new pediatrics resident, plan her wedding to an older, financially secure man, keep her head down and heart tucked away. But when she runs into Elliot Petropoulos - the first and only love of her life - the careful bubble she's constructed begins to dissolve. Once upon a time, Elliot was Macy's entire world - growing from her gangly teen friend into the man who coaxed her heart open again after the loss of her mother . . . only to break it on the very night he declared his love for her. Told in alternating timelines between Then and Now, teenage Elliot and Macy grow from friends to much more - spending weekends and lazy summers together in a house outside of San Francisco reading books, sharing favourite words, and talking through their growing pains and triumphs. As adults, they have become strangers to one another until their chance reunion. Although their memories are obscured by the agony of what happened that night so many years ago, Elliot will come to understand the truth behind Macy's decade-long silence, and will have to overcome the past and himself to revive her faith in the possibility of an all-consuming love. T he first women's fiction novel from New York Times and No. 1 international bestselling author Christina Lauren ( Dating You, Hating You ).

Christina Lauren takes a unique look at the evolution of infatuation

Vorwort
From the international bestselling author of The Unhoneymooners comes an unmissable story of love and hope.

Autorentext

Christina Lauren is the combined pen name of longtime writing partners/besties/soulmates and brain-twins Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings, the New York Times, USA TODAY, and #1 international bestselling authors of the Beautiful and Wild Seasons series, Sublime, The House, and Autoboyography.

You can find them online at ChristinaLaurenBooks.com, Facebook.com/ChristinaLaurenBooks, or @ChristinaLauren on Twitter.

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The heart may hide, but it never forgets.

**THEN
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At thirteen you were my first real friend. At fifteen you were my first love, at eighteen you were my everything. We were about to take on the world together, until one mistake shattered our future.

**NOW
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I'm about to marry a safe man who will never touch my heart, whose loss would never break me. He doesn't really need me, and that's how I like it. Until one day I turned around in a coffee shop and there you were. It's been eleven years and nothing has changed. I don't know how to forgive you and worse, I don't know if I can resist you.

Loving you nearly destroyed me, but losing you again is unthinkable. Am I brave enough to risk it all?

'Christina Lauren's books have a place of honour on my bookshelf.' Sarah J. Maas, bestselling author of Throne of Glass

'Heartbreaking and hopeful' Amy E. Reichert

Told in alternating timelines between Then and Now, t****he first women's fiction novel from New York Times bestselling author Christina Lauren is an unforgettable, endlessly uplifting story of love and loss.

Zusammenfassung
From the international bestselling author of The Unhoneymooners comes an unmissable story of love and hope.