First published 2019
Tate Jones is eighteen and restless when she boards a plane to London with her grandmother, leaving their small Northern California town behind for the first time. The trip changes direction fast. She meets Sam, a Vermont boy traveling with his grandfather Luther, and the four of them spend two weeks moving through the city together. Tate tells Sam something she has never told anyone: she is the secret daughter of a major Hollywood star. Sam tells her his grandfather may be dying and that this trip might be their last together. They fall hard. Then cameras find Tate, reporters swarm, and her secret is public. Someone talked. She is almost certain she knows who. Tate has to choose between retreating to the quiet life she knows and stepping into the glare she has avoided her whole life. More than ten years pass. Then Sam walks back into her world. He is older now, and so is she, and the London trip sits between them like a stone. The book asks whether trust, once broken, can actually be rebuilt, and whether two people can want the same thing twice.
Genres: fiction, romance, literary-fiction, contemporary, contemporary-romance
Vibes: bittersweet, emotional, intimate, romantic, thought-provoking
Tropes: broken-trust, reunion-romance, second-chance-romance, secret-identity
Setting: London, Northern California, Vermont
368 pages · Paperback · Gallery Books