For fans ofThe Love of My AfterlifeandThe Seven Year Slip, Reeses Book Club LitUp Fellow Natalie Messiers heartfelt contemporary romance debut follows a woman who gets a second chance at a formative time in her adult lifethis time to win the one that got away.

Joey Vasquezs life is the definition of good on paper. At thirty-two, shes a lawyer on the cusp of making partner, she owns her house in Los Angeles, and she almost keeps pace with her doctor sister in her parents eyes.

When she reluctantly arrives at the very couple-y dinner party hosted by Elijah Aarons, the best friend shes secretly pined after for fourteen years, shes dismayed to find that the last person on earth shed ever want to see again is also there: Alex Aquino. Your basic rich Silicon Beach bro asshole. The night couldnt possibly get worseand then she dies.

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