Can you ever truly escape your past, or is it bound to redefine your future? By most standard measures, Bobbie Lamont has built a life to be proud of. She is a celebrated freelance journalist and the author of two bestselling memoirs. She is also a dedicated, if exhausted, mother to a rebellious twelve-year-old daughter. Yet beneath the surface of her professional success, Bobbie's personal life is in absolute ruins. Just as she was embarking on a major book tour, she was served with sudden divorce papers-her husband of twelve years was leaving her for another woman. Struggling with heartbreak, isolation, and a growing dependency on alcohol, Bobbie returns to New Orleans for her twenty-year college reunion at Tulane University. What was supposed to be a weekend of polite catching up turns into an emotional minefield. From confronting the ghosts of a devastating heartbreak with her former English professor to a messy, unexpected encounter with an old boyfriend, the weekend unravels everything she thought she had moved past. Seeking a fresh start and desperate to shield her young daughter from the fallout of a messy divorce, Bobbie drives out to Birmingham, Alabama, to seek refuge with her trusted Aunt Gina. But hiding from the world won't mend her broken spirit. When she discovers that her old summer love, Miller Hoffman, has written a novel deeply inspired by their original 1990 romance, it opens the floodgates of buried memories. Under immense pressure from her publisher to deliver a new hit, Bobbie must face a choice: stay trapped in her cycles of grief and loneliness, or find the courage to take one final, terrifying leap of faith on a second chance at true love.
