Say You'll Be There

Imagine bumping into your first love at speed dating, a decade after he ghosted you.

Photographer Emma Anderson isn’t looking for love. She doesn’t date seriously, keeps men at arm’s length, and definitely doesn’t do vulnerability—not after the way things ended with her first love, Jake Griffin, in high school. The fallout was brutal: cyberbullying that forced her to switch schools, and radio silence from the boy who had once been her best friend. Since then, Emma’s buried the past so deeply that no one, not even her closest friends—or Emma herself—knows the full story.

So when she reluctantly goes speed dating, she doesn’t expect to see Jake sitting across from her. And she definitely doesn’t expect to agree when her best friend suggests a good old-fashioned sexorcism to get over him once and for all.

As Emma and Jake fall back into each other’s lives, Emma is forced to face the past she’s spent years avoiding—and risk her heart on the one person who already broke it.