By: Shaylin Gandhi
Many thanks to Harlequin Trade Publishing, The Hive, and NetGalley for the ARC of this book!
Mina Drake lost her husband in a car accident. It’s been six months, but she’s still very much lost in her grief. Her best friend Kate reminds her of something, that the way that she is remembering her marriage and Michael is not the way things were the last few years of her marriage. Michael’s brother, Grayson, reappears. She’s spent the last 14 years hating him. He’s now providing answers that are changing everything that she thought she knew. Coupled with her pull towards him, her head is spiraling, and she finds herself in a weird spot in her life.
This is Gandhi’s debut novel and I am completely blown away that this is a debut!!! This story is gut wrenching and heartbreaking. I can’t even imaging going through the loss of a husband and then finding out all of the things that Mina found out and still being okay! I probably would have found myself in a deep, dark hole.
One of the best parts of this book was how realistic all of the characters were. Each and every one of them was flawed in their own way. They each have their own struggles, their own secrets, their own desires, and their own unique voices.
This novel is told in the before and the after. The before tells of the story of Mina and Michael meeting and falling for each other. The after tells us the story of the now, after Michael has passed away and how Mina is handling her grief. The back and forth of the before and the now, in just Mina’s point of view, really give you a complete story. I will say, at one point, I did have my suspicions about something, and I turned out to be correct! But this is such a unique romance book, that I can’t wait for other romance readers to get their hands on it!
This book will be out on December 10, 2024. Get your copy here!
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