The Ex List

Lucy Whitmore has five ex-boyfriends and five perfectly reasonable explanations for why none of those relationships worked.

At least, she thinks she does.

Then her latest boyfriend dumps her with one uncomfortable observation: every relationship Lucy has ever had seems to end the same way—and somehow, the reason is always the man.

So Lucy makes a list.

Five exes. One question.

Why did we really break up?

What begins as an ill-advised investigation into her romantic past soon becomes something much more dangerous. Because Marcus remembers their relationship differently. Tom reveals a conversation Lucy completely misunderstood. Callum admits he always felt he was competing with someone who wasn't there.

And then there's Elliot Shaw.

Her first love.

The man she hasn't spoken to in eleven years.

The relationship Lucy has always remembered as two young people whose lives simply went in different directions.

Except Elliot remembers what happened very differently.

As Lucy's carefully constructed version of her romantic history begins to unravel, she is forced to confront an uncomfortable possibility: perhaps the problem was never that nobody chose her.

Perhaps she never gave anyone the chance.

Funny, heartfelt and deeply romantic, THE EX LIST is a contemporary second-chance love story about the stories we tell ourselves, the people we never quite forget, and what can happen when we finally become brave enough to ask for what we want.