Love and Other Words

After a decade apart,childhood sweethearts reconnect by chance in New York Times bestselling author Christina LaurenΓÇÖs touchingromantic novel Love and Other WordsΓǪhow many words will it take for them to figure out where it all went wrong? The story of the heart can never be unwritten. Macy Sorensen is settling into an ambitious if emotionally tepid routine: work hard as a new pediatrics residentplan her wedding to an olderfinancially secure mankeep her head down and heart tucked away. But when she runs into Elliot PetropoulosΓÇöthe first and only love of her lifeΓÇöthe careful bubble sheΓÇÖs constructed begins to dissolve. Once upon a timeElliot was MacyΓÇÖs entire worldΓÇögrowing from her gangly bookish friend into the man who coaxed her heart open again after the loss of her mother…only to break it on the very night he declared his love for her. Told in alternating timelines between Then and Nowteenage Elliot and Macy grow from friends to much moreΓÇöspending weekends and lazy summers together in a house outside of San Francisco devouring bookssharing favorite wordsand talking through their growing pains and triumphs. As adultsthey have become strangers to one another until their chance reunion. Although their memories are obscured by the agony of what happened that night so many years agoElliot will come to understand the truth behind MacyΓÇÖs decade-long silenceand will have to overcome the past and himself to revive her faith in the possibility of an all-consuming love.