by Emily Giffin
First published 2010
Rachel has always played by the rules. She's a Manhattan attorney who never rocks the boat, never causes trouble. But on her thirtieth birthday, after her best friend Darcy throws her a party, Rachel drinks too much and makes a terrible mistake. She sleeps with Darcy's fiancé. Rachel wakes up planning to forget the whole thing happened. Instead, she realizes she has real feelings for him. The man she should avoid becomes the one she can't stop thinking about. September approaches and Darcy's wedding date gets closer. Rachel faces an impossible decision. She can stay quiet and watch the man she loves marry someone else. Or she can act on her feelings and destroy her oldest friendship. The choice forces Rachel to question everything she believed about loyalty and love. She learns that doing the right thing isn't always clear and that happy endings require difficult sacrifices.
Genres: fiction, romance, contemporary-romance, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Manhattan
Period: September
336 pages · ebook · St. Martin's Press