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Only Love Can Hurt Like This by Paige Toon

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Only Love Can Hurt Like This, May 2023
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ONLY LOVE CAN HURT LIKE THIS
By: Paige Toon

G.P. Putnam's Sons
May 2023
On Sale: April 25, 2023
Featuring: Anders
400 pages
ISBN: 0593544331
EAN: 9780593544334
Kindle: B0BCKTS71Z
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Romance | Women's Fiction Contemporary

AN EARTH SHATTERING SECRET. A LIFE-CHANGING LOVE STORY.

“Nobody writes angst and joy and hope like Paige Toon.”—Christina Lauren, author of Love and Other Words

For fans of Colleen Hoover, an unforgettable and heartbreaking love story with an earth-shattering secret at its core that asks the question: Is love worth risking everything for?

When Wren realizes her fiancé is in love with someone else, she thinks her heart will never recover.

On the other side of the world, Anders lost his wife four years ago and is still struggling to move on.

Wren hopes that spending the summer with her dad and step-family on their farm in Indiana will help her to heal. There, amid the cornfields and fireflies, she and Anders cross paths and their worlds are turned upside-down again.

But Wren doesn't know that Anders is harboring a secret, and if he acts on any feelings he has for Wren it will have serious fall-out for everyone. Walking away would hurt Wren more than she can imagine. But, knowing the truth, how can she possibly stay?