✰ Bianca ✰
• 304 pages
From the bestselling author of The Girl He Used to Know comes a love song of a story about starting over and second chances.
Love doesn’t always wait until you’re ready.
Layla Hilding is thirty-five and recently divorced. Struggling to break free from the past—her glory days as the lead singer in a band and a ten-year marriage to a man who never put her first—Layla’s newly found independence feels a lot like loneliness.
Then there’s Josh, the single dad whose daughter attends the elementary school where Layla teaches music. Recently separated, he’s still processing the end of his twenty-year marriage to his high school sweetheart. He chats with Layla every morning at school and finds himself thinking about her more and more.
Equally cautious and confused about dating in a world that favors apps over meeting organically, Layla and Josh decide to be friends with the potential for something more. Sounds sensible and way too simple—but when two people are on the rebound, is it heartbreak or happiness that’s a love song away?
Layla just got divorced from Liam - her husband of ten years. And single dad Josh is divorced from Kimmy - who he met in highschool.
Both are not really ready for a new relationship. Especially not a rebound thing. And anyway, Layla doesn't have time and energy for a new love. She's busy getting back the music that got lost in her marriage. Music used to be her life. And now she's finally allowed to play her guitar again - she even builds a little music room in the basement of her new little house.
What to do? Try being just friends?
Will there be a Happily Ever After?
READ THE BOOK TO FIND OUT! ☺
Well. I loved this.
And another tiny little thing. The cover is super beautiful... but... Without reading the blurb, I would expect some kind of hippie, Woodstock, drugs, music romance set 50 years in the past. And we get the music parts, but there's only a tiny amount of seventies music - these are eighties/nineties kids. I think the cover is a bit misleading. I would've loved to get that same woman but sitting with a guitar in her lap, photographed from behind with some fairy lights and a glass of wine next to her. That would've been Layla.
I also wouldn't mind if Hollywood would come and made something out of this book.
Tracey Garvis Graves is the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author of contemporary fiction. Her debut novel, On the Island, spent 9 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, has been translated into thirty-one languages, and is in development with MGM and Temple Hill Productions for a feature film. She is also the author of Uncharted, Covet, Every Time I Think of You, Cherish, Heart-Shaped Hack, White-Hot Hack, and The Girl He Used to Know. She is hard at work on her next book.
