From the bestselling author of Fractured comes a moving, heart-mending and uplifting novel of love, hope and second chances.

Then…

On the eve of her wedding to Adam, Lily’s best friend Josh unexpectedly walked out of her life, and she hasn’t seen him since.

Lily and Adam are blissfully happy, until he falls ill. As she cares for him in his final hours, Adam asks her to make a mysterious promise: to find Josh—and forgive them both.

This winter…

Tracking Josh down isn’t easy, but fate seems determined to bring them together. Cut off in his remote Scottish cabin by a fierce snowstorm, Lily and Josh explore their tangled feelings for each other, stretching back over the decades. But when she discovers the shocking reason behind Adam’s unexpected last wish, she’ll need to trust her heart completely…

Can Lily and Josh choose love—and find forgiveness and lasting happiness together?

Perfect for fans of Paige Toon’s Seven Summers and Taylor Jenkins Reid’s One True Loves, Always You and Me asks: Do you choose love? Or does love choose you?

Dani Atkins is an award-winning novelist. Her 2013 debut Fractured has been translated into over twenty-three languages and has sold more than half a million copies.

Dani was born and has lived in various parts of Hertfordshire all her life. Before the arrival of her two children, she worked for many years as a secretary/PA in London in a range of diverse organisations, including the BBC, a car dealership, and an international engineering corporation. Books were her constant companions on the daily commute, and she never let go of her secret dream that one day she too might become an author.

A long and happy marriage, two children who have now grown up and left home, and a great many much-loved pets later, Dani still has to pinch herself to realise that she is now, quite literally, living the dream.

Dani and her husband live in a 350-year-old cottage and share their lives with a Siamese cat and a very exuberant and demanding border collie, who kindly allows them to live with him. Dani’s perfect day would include a long visit from her children, a roaring fire in the fireplace, a good book, a film everyone wanted to watch and an obscene amount of chocolate.

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