After a decade apart, childhood sweethearts reconnect by chance in
New York Times bestselling author Christina Lauren's touching,
romantic novel Love and Other Words...how 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 resident, plan her wedding to an
older, financially secure man, keep her head down and heart tucked away.
But when she runs into Elliot Petropoulos--the first and only love of
her life--the careful bubble she's constructed begins to dissolve. Once
upon a time, Elliot was Macy's entire world--growing 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 Now, teenage Elliot and
Macy grow from friends to much more--spending weekends and lazy summers
together in a house outside of San Francisco devouring books, sharing
favorite words, and talking through their growing pains and triumphs. As
adults, they 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 ago, Elliot will come to understand
the truth behind Macy's decade-long silence, and will have to overcome
the past and himself to revive her faith in the possibility of an
all-consuming love.
