First published 2020
Nicole "Coco" Martin has everything going for her. She's about to graduate from Columbia, her dream magazine job awaits, and she splits time between work and weekends at the family's Southampton home with her best friend Sam. Her parents adore her, and she has inherited her mother's beauty and creativity plus her father's strong work ethic. Then terrorists kill her parents during their French vacation. Coco faces the world alone and devastated. She pushes forward anyway, determined to honor her parents' memory by pursuing her dreams. She makes her own rules and thinks beyond conventional limits. A series of relationships with magnetic, complex men teaches her hard lessons about love and life. Some connections bring joy, others bring pain. Through each experience, Coco discovers her own strength and learns what truly matters. Her journey reveals that the most valuable things in life aren't what they seem to be.
Genres: fiction, romance, contemporary-romance, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, second-chance
Setting: Columbia, France, Southampton
Period: 21st-century
288 pages · Hardcover · Delacorte Press
Content warnings: death