Billie has just accepted Dean's proposal when her high-school sweetheart calls after almost a decade of silence. Emily Giffin's novel follows her back home to Wisconsin.

Readical Key Points

• A contemporary novel of first love, a new engagement and a hometown past
• A New York Times bestseller, according to the publisher; reviewed in Kirkus Reviews and Booklist
• Hardcover, 320 pages, Ballantine Books, 2026

Billie has a thriving medical practice in New York City and, after years of trying to get over Mick, the boy she loved in Wisconsin before ambition and distance pulled them apart, a partner in Dean. Mick's call brings urgent news, and Billie boards a plane home. Old friendships, the romance she had with Mick and the decisions that shaped all of them come back at once, and she has to reckon with what she gave up, what she made of her life and what she wants now.

It suits readers of Giffin's earlier novels, including Something Borrowed and The Summer Pact, and readers of women's fiction about first love and going home. Giffin sets the story between the life Billie built in New York and the one she left behind in Wisconsin.

About the Author

Emily Giffin has written twelve internationally bestselling novels, among them Something Borrowed, Something Blue, All We Ever Wanted, The Lies That Bind and The Summer Pact.

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