Christina Lauren

 Love, loss, friendship, and the betrayals of the past, all collide in this first women's fiction novel from New York Times and #1 international bestselling author Christina Lauren. 

The story of the heart can never be unwritten. 

Macy Sorensen is settling into an ambitious if emotionally tepid routine: work hard as 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 bookish 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 devouring books, sharing favourite words, and taking 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 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. 

Love and Other Words

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Vanessa Arenas

I never got to fall out of love. I just had to move on. 

Ashlyn Barrett

His arms became a set of parentheses bracketing the sweetest secret phrase.

Emma Wolfe

It never occurred to me that love could be anything other than all-consuming. Even as a child, I knew I never wanted anything less. 

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Danni Connell

Returning to me, he ducks low, meeting my eyes, searching. "Macy, you know that I would make time 

 for you. Any sliver of time I have is yours."

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