Chasing Love

This new first-person rewrite brings you closer than ever to Rose and Cole—more intimate, more vulnerable, and caught between the future they've always imagined and the truths they're afraid to share. You'll feel every flicker of doubt, every unspoken fear, and every heartbreaking turn as they discover that loving someone isn't always the same as wanting the same life.

When Cole Johnson was eight years old, he married Rose Prescott in a musty basement. The aisle was made of holiday table runners, Rose wore an old lace curtain, and her brother performed the ceremony—even though he could barely read.

Twenty-four years later, Cole is more in love than ever and ready to marry Rose for real. This time, he envisions an exquisite venue, a big house with a picket fence, twin boys, a family dog, and a rock-solid 401(k). It's the perfect future—or at least, Cole believes it is.

But Rose doesn't want any of it. The mortgage, the minivan, and the children Cole dreams about don't feel comforting. They feel suffocating. And with the wedding approaching, the truth she's been avoiding becomes impossible to ignore.

As Cole begins to suspect Rose is hiding something, a piece of paper meant to protect their future could be the very thing that tears it apart. They've spent nearly a lifetime chasing love. Now, they must decide whether their love is strong enough to survive a future neither of them saw coming.

Best-selling and award-winning author Julie Navickas delivers an emotional conclusion to the Clumsy Little Hearts trilogy about childhood promises, conflicting dreams, and the painful truth that sometimes the right person can still want the wrong future.

~1st place recipient of a BOOKFEST AWARD in contemporary romance~