Trust Issues

After two weeks of the most electric summer of her life, free-spirited Narra Fàbregas must decide whether love is worth betting everything on, before the man she loves leaves the country for good.

Narra always thought she and Théo Gallagher would be a footnote: a beautiful, impractical summer fling filed away under unrealistic and revisited only in weak moments. She said goodbye and she meant it. Then Théo returns with a proposition so audacious it should be laughable: he asks her to marry him, at twenty-one, against the weight of his wealthy European family's expectations and the very real distance between the worlds they come from, and to give him an answer before the summer ends. If she says no, it's goodbye forever. If she says yes, it means trusting that a first love, with so much uncertainty still ahead of them, is a sound thing to build a future on.

Théo is hard to dismiss; he's steady, devoted, and entirely willing to upend his own carefully constructed life to be wherever Narra is. But his world comes with complications that no amount of certainty can dissolve: a family that measures worth in bloodlines and bank balances, a mother whose contempt for Narra is barely concealed, and the looming question of what he's actually walking away from when he chooses her. Narra, meanwhile, is nobody's fool, and the people who love her most know it—which is precisely why they're worried. Being twenty-one and certain you've found your person is one thing; convincing the people who raised you, who know exactly how much world you haven't yet seen, and that this isn't just infatuation mistaken for forever, is something else entirely.

What follows is a second chance romance in which two young people must reckon honestly with everything love asks of them: not just the grand gestures and the white-hot feeling, but the logistics, the sacrifice, and the terrifying business of trusting someone else with your entire future. The answer was never going to be simple. But then again, nothing worth having ever is.