The rest of the novel follows Emma as she tries to figure out what to do. They’re in the midst of planning their wedding when Emma gets an unexpected phone call – it turns out Jesse is still alive and is on his way home to her. Emma does fall in love with Sam and, over the next couple of years, starts to build a life with him. They take things very slowly, because Sam really wants to make sure Emma has finished grieving for Jesse before they move forward as a couple. Sam was in love with Emma in high school, and even after all these years, he still feels the same way so he asks her out. She moves back home and starts working in her parents’ bookstore and runs into one of her good friends from high school, Sam. His body is never found and after months and months of hoping he’ll return to her, Emma finally decides that she needs to face the fact that he’s gone and move on with her life. When her husband and high school sweetheart, Jesse, is lost at sea in a helicopter crash, Emma is devastated.
She’s just not sure what it’s saying.Ī book with a love triangle I actually enjoyed? As much as I usually rage against them, I totally did not see that one coming, but in One True Loves the main character Emma finds herself at the center of what I’d consider to be a pretty realistic love triangle. Who is her one true love? What does it mean to love truly?Įmma knows she has to listen to her heart. With a husband and a fiancé, Emma has to now figure out who she is and what she wants, while trying to protect the ones she loves. He’s alive, and he’s been trying all these years to come home to her. When Emma and Sam get engaged, it feels like Emma’s second chance at happiness. Years later, now in her thirties, Emma runs into an old friend, Sam, and finds herself falling in love again. Just like that, Jesse is gone forever.Įmma quits her job and moves home in an effort to put her life back together. On their first wedding anniversary, Jesse is on a helicopter over the Pacific when it goes missing. They travel the world together, living life to the fullest and seizing every opportunity for adventure.
They build a life for themselves, far away from the expectations of their parents and the people of their hometown in Massachusetts. In her twenties, Emma Blair marries her high school sweetheart, Jesse. Goodreads Synopsis: From the author of Maybe in Another Life-named a People Magazine pick and a “Best Book of the Summer” by Glamour and USA Today-comes a breathtaking new love story about a woman unexpectedly forced to choose between the husband she has long thought dead and the fiancé who has finally brought her back to life. Published by Washington Square Press on June 7th 2016 Also by this author: Daisy Jones & The Six, Carrie Soto Is Back
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