Love and Then

Love and Then is an emotionally sweeping novel about grief, addiction, reinvention, and the complicated ways we save one another while learning to save ourselves, set against the breathtaking backdrops of Bali, Paris, Kenya, New York, and coastal Florida.

OVERVIEW

Twenty-three-year-old Gwen Owens has spent her entire life becoming the person everyone else wanted her to be. Fresh out of college and facing a future mapped out by her powerful attorney father and her married boyfriend, Gwen decides to escape Manhattan for a year and travel the world alone before law school begins.

On the flight to Bali, she meets Damon Lawner—a handsome, enigmatic man carrying a lifetime of grief behind his quiet demeanor and black clothes. Once the owner of a glamorous Los Angeles nightclub, Damon has spent years running from the loss of the woman he loved, the child he helped raise, and the life he can no longer bear to remember.

As their journey carries them from the beaches of Indonesia to the streets of Paris, the plains of Kenya, and eventually back to the Florida coastline where Damon lost everything, Gwen and Damon discover that love cannot heal every wound, nor can one person save another. But sometimes love can offer something equally important: a reason to keep moving forward.

Love and Then is a sweeping story of second chances, self-discovery, family, grief, and the courage required to choose life after unimaginable loss.