Perfect for fans of Emily Giffin and Jennifer Weiner, this bright, funny debut from a fresh voice in fiction offers a delicious take on love, family, and what it means to build a home of oneβs own.
Sarina Mahler thinks she has her life all nailed down: a growing architecture practice in Austin, Texas, and an any-day-now proposal from her loving boyfriend, Noah. Sheβs well on her way to having the family sheβs hoped for since her motherβs death ten years ago. But with Noah on a temporary assignment abroad and retired Olympic swimmerβand former flameβEamon Roy back in town asking her to renovate his new fixer-upper, Sarinaβs life takes an unexpected turn. Eamon proves to be Sarinaβs dream client, someone who instinctively trusts every one of her choicesβand Sarina is reminded of all the reasons she was first drawn to him back in the day. Suddenly her carefully planned future with Noah seems a little less than perfect. And when tragedy strikes, Sarina is left reeling. With her world completely upended, she is forced to question what she truly wants in lifeβand in love.
Full of both humor and heartbreak, The One That Got Away is the story of one womanβs discovery that, sometimes, life is what happens when you leave the blueprints behind.
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