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What if the person you love the most is the one you can’t have?

Grace has loved Jackson since she was fifteen – when they spent every childhood summer exploring France's breathtaking Ardèche region together. They were best friends, until life took its course and Jackson married someone else.

Years later, Jackson re-enters Grace’s life with an irresistible offer: her dream job in the very town where their story began. And he’s newly single.

As memories from those idyllic summers flood back, Grace encounters an old friend Étienne, who proposes a plan to help make Jackson jealous. But as their scheme unfolds, Grace finds herself questioning if the sparks between them might not be so pretend after all…

Unbeknownst to Grace, Étienne is harbouring a secret that could shatter her world.

Will learning the truth finally set her heart free?

Or is this the beginning of a love story bigger than she ever imagined?


Praise for Paige Toon:

‘You’ll love it, cry buckets and be uplifted’ Marian Keyes
'Paige Toon makes me fall in love and then breaks my heart every time' Giovanna Fletcher
‘Nobody writes angst and joy and hope like Paige Toon’ Christina Lauren
‘Paige’s beautiful, emotional love stories sweep me away’ Beth O’Leary
‘Warms your heart, shatters it in pieces, then puts it back together again and again’ Abby Jimenez
‘Paige Toon breaks your heart then stitches it back together with expert hands’ Carley Fortune
'A sweeping love story that is deep, complex and so, so riveting. I devoured this novel in one glorious gulp and still wanted more.' Jill Santopolo

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