Once, Again, Always
A Novel
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
"Filled to the brim with tenderness, yearning, and heart....Five effervescent stars!" -Brigitte Knightley, New York Times bestselling author
A second-chance romance following a young woman who wakes up in the hospital with no memory of the past six years, only to find that she apparently married the one man she can’t stand—her arrogant and infuriating former boarding school rival.
Molly Graham’s day can’t possibly get any worse after she wakes up in a hospital bed with a head injury and amnesia. But then Aster Bishop—the Aster Bishop who made her life hell at boarding school—storms into her room calling her his wife.
To Molly’s shock, in the six years she no longer recalls, she somehow fell in love with a man she once despised. Persuaded by her lifelong friends to give her new reality a chance, she reluctantly returns to the home she and Aster share to try and piece together her life.
So much has changed, not least the considerate and devastatingly handsome man who spends every night sleeping on the sofa to avoid making her uncomfortable. This Aster is nothing like the entitled boy she once knew. Their chemistry is undeniable-but he’s distant with her, infuriatingly so. It’s clear he has secrets, and Molly can’t stand it. Especially knowing that she might never regain her memories.
That she fell in love with Aster Bishop once is hard enough to believe. But to fall in love again? To promise a future, always, when she can’t remember her past? It feels impossible when faced with a man she hardly knows and isn’t sure she can trust.
And yet…
Tropes
• Rivals to lovers
• Forced proximity
• Slow burn
• Yearning (so much yearning)
• Found family
• Second-chance romance
• Memory loss
• There’s only one bed and he takes the sofa like a boring, sensible man
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
A clever amnesia twist gives this tender second-chance romance an irresistible starting point: Can you fall in love with your own husband twice? Molly Graham wakes after an accident with six years missing from her memory. The considerate, devoted man who takes her home from the hospital is none other than her former boarding school rival—and her husband. He bears little resemblance to the arrogant teenager Molly hated, but she isn’t willing to simply trust the choices made by a version of herself she can’t remember. Amanda Gayle gets plenty of romantic tension from Molly and Aster essentially becoming newlyweds all over again, while digging into thornier questions about trust, autonomy, and whether our memories determine who we are. We especially loved watching Molly stop waiting for her old life to return and start deciding what she wants now. Warm, yearning, and surprisingly thoughtful, Once, Again, Always makes falling in love again feel every bit as complicated as the first time.