The Best I Ever Had

· Simon and Schuster
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Christina Lauren, the New York Times bestselling author of Love and Other Words and The Paradise Problem, returns with a sweeping romance about first love, second chances, and the one summer that changes everything about both.

Frankie Flowers and Bobby Falo have spent most of their lives trying to outdo each other.

As neighbors turned academic rivals, they grew up competing over everything. Somewhere along the way, rivalry became friendship, friendship became love, and then, at eighteen, everything between them fell apart.

Eleven years later, Frankie has built the life she once dreamed of—far away from her tiny hometown. She’s successful, independent, and has perfected the art of not looking back. But when she finally returns to Lake Himmel for the summer, she discovers that some things haven’t changed nearly as much as she’d like.

The lake is still there. The house next door is still there. And so is Bobby Falo.

Bobby is no longer the boy Frankie remembers, but being around him still feels dangerously familiar: the competition, the banter, the uncanny way he sees straight through her. And as old feelings surface, Frankie begins to wonder if the one thing more dangerous than their former rivalry is discovering what really ended it.
Christina Lauren, the New York Times bestselling author of Love and Other Words and The Paradise Problem, returns with a sweeping romance about first love, second chances, and the one summer that changes everything about both. Frankie Flowers and Bobby Falo have spent most of their lives trying...

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About the author

Christina Lauren is the combined pen name of longtime writing partners and best friends Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings, the New York Times, USA TODAY, and #1 internationally bestselling authors of the Beautiful and Wild Seasons series, Autoboyography, Love and Other Words, Roomies, Josh and Hazel’s Guide to Not Dating, The Unhoneymooners, The Soulmate Equation, Something Wilder, The True Love Experiment, The Paradise Problem, The Romance Revival, and In a Holidaze. You can find them online at ChristinaLaurenBooks.com or @ChristinaLauren on Instagram.
Christina Lauren is the combined pen name of longtime writing partners and best friends Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings, the New York Times, USA TODAY, and #1 internationally bestselling authors of the Beautiful and Wild Seasons series, Autoboyography, Love and Other Words, Roomies, Josh and ...

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