GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK • “A romcom-meets-magic delight!”—Sarah Adams, New York Times bestselling author of Practice Makes Perfect
A young woman tries to heal her heartbreak by casting a spell to erase her ex from her past, but she wakes up in an alternate reality where she’s lost more than she wished for in this witty, whimsical friends-to-lovers debut.
What if one little wish changed everything?
When Gemma gets dumped by her long-term boyfriend, she reacts the way any reasonable twenty-eight-year-old would: by getting drunk with her sister, kooky aunt, and best friend, Dax. After one too many margaritas, they decide to perform a love- cleansing spell, which promises to erase Gemma’s ex from her memory. They follow all the instructions, including a platonic kiss from Dax to seal the deal.
When Gemma wakes up, she realizes that this silly spell has worked. Not only does it seem that she never dated her ex, but the rest of her life is completely unrecognizable. The worst part: Dax has no idea who she is.
To reverse the spell and get back to her old life, Gemma must convince her once-best-friend-now-near-stranger to kiss her. But as she carries out her plans, she finds herself falling for him—hard. Soon, Gemma begins to wonder whether she even wants to go back to the way things once were. What if Dax was The One all along?
A great debut romance
"A delightful story about alternate timelines where one learns that even the tough things happen to set things in motion in a way you can't even imagine. I didn't realize until I had finished that this was the debut novel of the author who wrote the delightful Kitty St. Clair's Last Dance. Gemma is sick and tired of thinking about her ex who sapped so much from her and had her betraying her own dreams for his sake. Her aunt, trying to be helpful, passes along an old book featuring a forgetting spell. She doesn't really believe in it, especially the part where she needs to kiss someone, but in a drunken haze she does it, kissing her best friend in the process. She wakes up in a completely different reality, one where she pursued her dreams. I'm a big sucker for transformation stories so seeing how things could be different, while also learning more about her sister and taking a chance on something more with her best friend (who didn't know her because she met him and her ex the same night) was gratifying. The ending was just perfect. The biggest delight is that the story is set in Hamilton. When she talks about being walking distance from the GO Station, I know exactly where she is, as I had a friend I would visit frequently who was there. I did the Hamilton Fringe back in 2018 so I experienced the James Street vibe she talks about. I love that romance has evolved and Canadian authors no longer have to set their story either in the US or Britain. This is definitely worth a read."
