The Ones Who Got
Away (The Ones Who Got Away #1). By Roni Loren. 2018. Sourcebooks
Casablanca. ASIN: B06XRH7DBC (Kindle).
Twelve years after a
school shooting on the night of senior prom, web designer Olivia
Arias returns to the small town of Long Acre to participate in a
documentary about the tragedy. She’s dreading the interview, but
looking forward to reuniting with Rebecca, Taryn and Kincaid, three
other survivors she became close with the summer following
graduation. She’s taken aback by the emotional gut punch she
receives when she comes face-to-face with Finn Dorsey, almost
unrecognizable from the boy he had been.
That night, when the
four girls meet up for drinks and open a time capsule containing
letters they had written to their future selves, Liv realizes that
she has held herself back from living up to the passionate hopes and
dreams of her 18-year-old self. Resolving to break up the monotony of
her life, she starts by addressing the unfinished business between
her and the brooding undercover FBI agent seated in the dark booth
nearby. You see, Long Acres High School’s goth rebel, Liv Arias,
and its shining star athlete, Finn Dorsey, secretly dated. But that
fateful night left both of their hearts broken as life put them on
different paths then they had planned.
Loren has delivered
the start of a unique series, filled with intense emotions and
sizzling chemistry mixed with sweet moments, wonderful banter and
prominent friendships. A hard book to put down.
386 pages
