LOVE AT LAST
every new year
When Ezra Posner was eighteen, he met Candace Garret and fell in love.
When Candace met Ezra, she instantly knew he was the boy for her.
In the middle of their first year at college, Candace and Ezra share a clumsy kiss that should have been the beginning of an epic love affair, but it's not. Instead, it begins a nearly two-decade journey of never quite getting the timing right for love. For almost every New Year's Eve after, Candace and Ezra stumble into one another's arms, but can’t manage to hold onto each other for more than a single night. They live with the expectant giddiness of being able to spend New Year's Eve with the person they love, always hoping that next year will be their year. Until eventually, their annual trysts ruin even the friendship that held them together.
As 2019 ends, Candace and Ezra are both running away from their broken hearts. They board a plane hoping to finally move on from their relationship, only to run right into each other's arms.
Every New Year is a friends-to-lovers romance that takes nearly twenty years to bloom. It's also the first in the Love At Last series, where happily ever afters might take some time to mature, but they're always worth the wait.
Content Warnings:
parental sickness (cancer, diabetes, hypertension)
one more valentine
When Mei Barnes was eighteen, she saw Miles Jefferson across a crowded room and knew immediately that he would be the love of her life. The first time Miles saw Mei, he knew that whatever he did for the rest of his life would be to make himself worthy of her love. For fifteen years, their relationship was easy and joyful, until it wasn’t.
It's been three years since the divorce and the only thing time had given them was more pain until their best friends, Ezra and Candace, reunited over New Year’s Eve. When they get the invitation to fly to Paris to celebrate their new relationship, Miles and Mei agree out of love and loyalty to their friends. Reuniting for one more Valentine’s Day together dredges up all their old hurts, but also two decades of a love written on their souls.
Content Warnings
Parental death
(Implied) depression
Heart disease
Mention of miscarriage