This heartbreaking contemporary fiction asks the question: Do our lives play out because of our decisions or is fate dictating how our lives are meant to be? I was originally drawn to this book because I thought the plot involved past lives but it turns out I just misread the synopsis and I the pages of this book fate is just fate, not the universe trying to reconnect two souls. 

Mia Graydon is happily married to her husband, Harrison. Having just moved to the small town of Hope Springs, PA Mia is hoping this will be the fresh start they need to start building their family. Harrison is a surgeon at the local hospital and Mia is an artist. The couple have told each other everything, though Mia has held back one thing which comes to light one day shortly after moving. Mia has been dreaming of the same man, unknown to her, for practically her entire life. She doesn’t know what it means, but she figures it’s a weird quirk that doesn’t need to be shared, until she bumps into the man of her dreams. When she finds out Oliver has been dreaming of her too, the two decide to figure out what this means. 

This was so much more sad than I was expecting. Several things happened for which I wasn’t prepared and I ended up feeling blindsided. That being said, the writing is beautiful and the story is very moving.