When Helene was young, she dreamed of the perfect man and filled her notebooks with stories about him and about love in its purest form. But after a messy divorce, she has let go of such naive fantasies. She has moved to a small town in Alaska, where she is ready to write her novel and build a new life without romance. Fate has other plans, though.
Helene soon meets Sebastien Montague, a handsome fisherman who is her invented hero made flesh, down to the most idiosyncratic details. But how can a man she created possibly exist in the real world?
While Helene tries to discover the truth behind his existence, Sebastien is determined to keep that truth from her, for he is a man scarred by serial tragedy, hiding a secret that has broken his heart time and again. Yet the shadows of the past emerge, endangering Helene and Sebastien's future before it even begins--and it becomes clear that it won't be easy to forge a new ending to the greatest love story of all time.
I cannot recommend this book enough, I absolutely loved it!! Throughout the story, I felt this hovering sense of looming tragedy, but yet there was also so much hope, especially with Helene's eternal optimism. I like how the couple's history throughout time was woven into the present story, both from Helene's stories and Sebastian's journals and memories. This is my first book by this author, but I definitely want to read more!
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