Title: The One for You
Series: The Ones Who Got Away
Author: Roni Loren
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: December 31, 2019
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
ASIN: B07MR87JKW
She got a second chance at life.
Will she take a second chance at love?
Kincaid Breslin wasn't supposed to survive that fateful night at Long Acre when so many died, including her boyfriend—but survive she did. She doesn't know why she got that chance, but now she takes life by the horns and doesn't let anybody stand in her way,
Ashton Isaacs was her best friend when disaster struck all those years ago, but he chose to run as far away as he could. Now fate has brought him back to town, and Ash doesn't know how to cope with his feelings for Kincaid and his grief over their lost friendship. For Ash has been carrying secrets, and he knows that once Kincaid learns the truth, he'll lose any chance he might have had with the only woman he's ever loved.
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***copy provided by publisher through NetGalley***
Kincaid Breslin and Ashton Isaacs had been best friends forever...until the shooting at their prom, and their subsequent seeking refuge in each other's arms (in which she called him by her dead boyfriend's name) drew them apart.
Now, Ash, an acclaimed writer, is back in Long Acre after breaking things off with his cheating fiancée, nursing a writer's block and he and Kincaid finally talk about what happened that ill-advised night in each other's arms and decide to be friends again.
But long-buried feelings rear their heads, risking exposing long-held secrets...
Another straight-up romance to round out this series. It had its plodding and slow moments, what with the angst of old secrets and Kincaid's hero-worship of her (let's face it, douche-y) dead boyfriend, whom she thought was her soul-mate, but the overall story worked.
I appreciated the long-term friendship angle between Kincaid and Ash. They weren't just two strangers meeting for the first time, acting on the attraction between them, they weren't high-school sweethearts separated by time and space...They were friends, first and foremost. They knew each other, they knew each other's secrets (well, mostly) and history, they had common history...The only things keeping them apart back then and now were their individual issues, hang-ups and ghosts.
And those issues, hang-ups and ghosts almost split them up for good, until they finally decided to fight for what they wanted, what they never knew they really wanted or needed.
While the first three books featured female friendship, four survivors striking an (unlikely) friendship, this last book toned down the four girlfriends, sidelining the other three, relegating them to picking-up-the-pieces duty, it still focused on friendship. An enduring friendship, spanning years and hardhip, proving once more that good love stories flourish on solid foundations.
"You know what romantic love is, Ashton?"Preach!
She didn't wait for him to answer. "It's a long-lasting deep friendship with common ground, respect, and hopefully, lots of really great sex."
Well-written, with a great cast of characters...A great ending to a wonderful series.
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