In her debut novel, Laura Thrash investigates love, loss, friendship, and second chances.
Ada Cameron's life was perfect. Okay, maybe not perfect, but it was going pretty much according to plan. She and her life-long-best-friend, Daisy, had each married their high school sweethearts and taught elementary school right across the hall from one another. Ada and her husband, Troy, were completely in love, utterly devoted to each other, and excited to create a family together. Life was everything she had imagined, until one day, it all came crashing down. Ada has to learn how to grieve the life she had, the life she wanted, and her incredible love.
Now, two years later, Ada is trying to create a new version of her life, one without Troy. When Ada's friends push her to start dating again, it seems that she will never find another love as strong as the one she had.
Following new dreams, Ada spends the summer in a nearby town taking graduate art courses, where she finds herself with new friends, new opportunities, and a new mysterious love-interest. Can Ada move on from Troy and find love again, or was what she had once-in-a-lifetime?