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Juno has loved exactly two men in her life.
The first was her best friend.
The second asked her to marry him.
At twenty-eight, Juno's life looks exactly the way she always imagined it would. She's built a successful career as a stylist in Los Angeles, she's in love with one of the biggest artists in the world, and she's planning a wedding to a man who is kind, steady, and absolutely sure about her.
Then there's Jaafar.
Jaafar, who has been part of her life since they were eleven years old and arguing about sharks on a playground swing set. Jaafar, who knows her coffee order, her worst habits, and exactly what expression means she's about to cry even when she's smiling. Jaafar, who once promised that if neither of them were married by thirty, they'd marry each other instead.
A joke made by children.
A promise neither of them ever forgot.
As wedding planning pulls them closer together than they've been in years, Juno begins to wonder whether it's possible to mistake comfort for certainty, friendship for history, and history for something much more dangerous.
Because choosing between two people isn't the hardest part.
The hardest part is realizing one of them was never really a choice at all.
A sweeping slow-burn story about timing, friendship, missed chances, and the devastating question that follows two people for nearly two decades:
What if the love of your life was standing beside you the whole time - and neither of you ever said a word?