'A book of tears, laughter, longing, regrets and filled to the brim with life . . . a wonder'

ANDREW SEAN GREER, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less

'An exquisitely rendered novel about the vagaries of fate, and friendship, and love'

ALICE MCDERMOTT, National Book Award winner and author of Absolution

'A masterpiece'

ADAM JOHNSON, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Orphan Master's Son

'Brilliant'

DANIELLE EVANS, author of The Office of Historical Corrections

Cece is in love. She has arrived early at her in-laws' beautiful lake house in Salish, Montana, to finish planning her wedding to Charlie, a medical student with a brilliant future. Charlie asks Garrett, his best friend from college, to officiate, though Cece can't imagine anyone less appropriate for the task; Garrett doesn't believe in love, much less marriage. But as she spends time with him, and his gruff mask slips, her long-held expectations for her life with Charlie begin to crumble, and her feelings for Garrett become impossible to bury.

When Cece finally decides to follow her instincts, ditching her groom for his best man, their lives will be altered forever, the events of that July reverberating through marriage, parenthood and, in the end, across generations.