Working at a local coffeehouse, she begins to discover the pleasures and secrets of her new small-town community and, in the process, realizes there’s really no such thing as the way life should be. Far from everything familiar, Angela begins to rebuild her life from the ground up. Tacked to her office bulletin board is a photo from a magazine of a tidy cottage on the coast of Maine-a charming reminder of a life that could be hers, if she could only muster the courage to go after it.On a hope and a chance, Angela decides to pack it all up and move to Maine, finding the nudge she needs in the dating profile of a handsome sailor who loves dogs and Italian food.īut her new home isn’t quite matching up with the fantasy. She inherited a flair for Italian cooking from her grandmother, but she never seems to have the time for it-these days, her oven holds only sweaters. She is single in New York City, stuck in a job she doesn’t want and a life that seems to have, somehow, just happened. With nothing left to lose, she is determined to answer one simple question: What ever happened to Jennifer Pelletier? Read Moreįrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train, and the critically acclaimed author of Bird in Hand, comes a novel of love, risk, and self-discovery-includes a special PS section featuring insights, interviews, and more.Angela can feel the clock ticking. When her divorce sends her reeling back to the Maine town where she grew up, she finds herself plunged into a sea of memories. She never came back.Ten years later, Kathryn has tried to build a life for herself, with a marriage and a career as a journalist, but she still feels the conspicuous void of Jennifer’s disappearance.

“I’ll be fine,” Jennifer says, as she walks away from the dying embers and towards the darkness of the woods. On the night of her high school graduation, Kathryn Campbell sits around a bonfire with her four closest friends, including the beautiful but erratic Jennifer. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train, and the critically acclaimed author of Bird in Hand and The Way Life Should Be, comes a novel about friendship and the memories that haunt us-includes a special PS section featuring insights, interviews, and more.

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