Lucy lives on the twenty-fourth floor. Owen lives in the basement. It’s fitting, then, that they meet in the middle — stuck between two floors of a New York City apartment building, on an elevator rendered useless by a citywide blackout. After they’re rescued, Lucy and Owen spend the night wandering the darkened streets and marveling at the rare appearance of stars above Manhattan. But once the … the power is back, so is reality. Lucy soon moves abroad with her parents, while Owen heads out west with his father.
The brief time they spend together leaves a mark. And as their lives take them to Edinburgh and to San Francisco, to Prague and to Portland, Lucy and Owen stay in touch through postcards, occasional e-mails, and phone calls. But can they — despite the odds — find a way to reunite?
Smartly observed and wonderfully romantic, Jennifer E. Smith’s new novel shows that the center of the world isn’t necessarily a place. Sometimes, it can be a person.
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I really enjoyed this book, it’s the type of book you can start reading and finish it in the same sitting. I have other books by this author on my read list
This has been on my TBR for a really long time. I’m in the mood for a rom com, so here we go!
It made me so happy in the end!
There were a couple of slight things about the story that bothered me, like how long it took for them to get together again. Geez. All-in-all it was a great romance. They characters were interesting and had great chemistry. …
There was something soft and sweet about this throwback story. In an age where texting and social media are all the rage and the ways that most teens seem to communicate through, it was refreshing to see Lucy and Owen, two vastly different people from opposite worlds, have a fluke meeting, an exciting couple of days during a power outages, and …
Sweet, swoony, and oh-so-romantic. Loved this book – a great escape!
It was unique. I normally don’t like Romance, but this was refreshing. Not sappy fluff, but a real, believable story
I love the kind of story that has you eager to see how things will turn out for the main characters and that is exactly what we have in this book.
Lucy and Owen are quite different from each other, and yet they fit so well. You can see the connection from the beginning and it’s kind of beautiful. But life isn’t always so beautiful and shortly …