What If I Never Get Over You: A Novel of First Love and Second Chances

WHAT IF I NEVER GET OVER YOU
A novel of first love and second chances

Some first loves don’t die.
They wait.

Brooke Whitaker has spent years building a life that looks right from the outside. A serious relationship. A polished career. A future that makes sense on paper. She left her small town behind for a reason—and she has worked hard to become the kind of woman who never looks back.

Then she walks into Jake Callahan’s restaurant.

Jake was her first love.
Her almost.
The one person she never really got over, no matter how far she ran or how carefully she tried to build a different life.

Now he’s no longer the boy she left behind. He’s a man who built something real out of heartbreak, grit, and sheer force of will. He has his own life, his own rules, and every reason in the world to keep his distance.

He also still wants her.

What begins as old memories and dangerous chemistry turns into something far more volatile: unfinished history, buried longing, messy choices, and the kind of connection that refuses to stay in the past.

Because Jake was never just Brooke’s first love.
And Brooke was never just Jake’s past.

Now Brooke is caught between the life she chose and the love she never stopped feeling—and the question she’s spent years trying not to ask becomes impossible to outrun:

What if the person she never got over is the one she was never supposed to lose?

What If I Never Get Over You is a raw, emotionally charged contemporary romance about first love, second chances, quiet devastation, and what happens when the life you built collides with the one that still feels like home.

• first love reunited romance
• second chance love stories
• soulmate-level chemistry
• deeply emotional contemporary romance
• messy choices and big feelings
• small-town history with big-city consequences