Shiloh and Cary were two-thirds of a trio of best friends, with their friend Mikey. But Shiloh and Cary spent the most time together, just hanging out and annoying each other the way high school best friends do. They both had plans to get out of their Nebraska hometown—Shiloh was going to college and become an actress, while Cary was going to join the Navy.
When they graduated high school, they vowed their friendship would never change, no matter what they did or where they went. But of course, it did. Now 14 years later, Shiloh is a divorced mother of two living in the house she grew up in, and she has no clue where Cary is. Until they run into each other at Mikey’s wedding.
“Shiloh had been imagining this moment—the moment she’d see Cary again—for months, but even in her imagination, it wouldn’t mean as much to him as it did to her.”
As they talk at the wedding, it feels like so much has changed, yet so much has not. It’s easy to fall back into the immature behaviors and emotions of high school, but now these actions can have real ramifications. But despite their history, they both want to spend more and more time together. Could the feelings everyone thought they had for one another then be real, even now?
I love second-chance romances and friends to lovers as well. I just didn’t like Shiloh. She had some very annoying traits and habits, even as an adult, and I honestly couldn’t understand why Cary would be interested in her. But I did get caught up in the nostalgic feelings, so all was not lost.
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