This Could Be Us

Name: This Could Be Us
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9780349436524
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By Kennedy Ryan

Series: Skyland

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'Heart-searing, sensual, and life affirming' EMILY HENRY on Before I Let Go Award-winning and bestselling powerhouse author Kennedy Ryan is back with a compelling new novel in her Skyland series, following Before I Let Go. Soledad Barnes has her life all planned out. She plans everything.... Read More

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'Heart-searing, sensual, and life affirming' EMILY HENRY on Before I Let Go

Award-winning and bestselling powerhouse author Kennedy Ryan is back with a compelling new novel in her Skyland series, following Before I Let Go.

Soledad Barnes has her life all planned out. She plans everything. She designs everything. She fixes everything. But none of her varied talents can save her when catastrophe strikes, and the life she built with the man who was supposed to be her forever, goes poof in a cloud of betrayal and disillusion.

But there is no time to pout or sulk, or even grieve the life she lost. She's too busy keeping a roof over her daughters' heads and food on the table. And in the process of saving them all, Soledad rediscovers herself. From the ashes of a life burned to the ground, something bold and new can rise.

But then an unlikely man enters the picture - the forbidden one, the one she shouldn't want but can't seem to resist. She's lost it all before and refuses to repeat her mistakes. Can she trust him? Can she trust herself?

After all she's lost... and found... can she be brave enough to make room for what could be?

For fans of Tia Williams and Colleen Hoover comes a deeply moving and personal novel about sacrifice, self-reliance, and finding true happiness from 'one of the finest romance writers of our age' Entertainment Weekly

WHY READERS LOVE KENNEDY RYAN . . .

⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐!

'Real, raw, magnificent!' COLLEEN HOOVER

'The most raw, poignant, and romantic journey of healing I've read in a long time. Kennedy Ryan has a fan for life' ALI HAZELWOOD

'Breathtaking, gut-wrenching, viscerally romantic' TALIA HIBBERT

'SPECTACULAR!' CHRISTINA LAUREN

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780349436524

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 March 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Piatkus Books

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 36.0mm

Width: 126.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 290g

Pages: 416

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Contemporary Romance Fiction General Fiction Kennedy Ryan Romance Series: Skyland

About the Author

A RITA and Audie Award winner, USA Today bestselling author Kennedy Ryan writes for women from all walks of life, empowering them and placing them firmly at the center of each story and in charge of their own destinies. Her heroes respect, cherish, and lose their minds for the women who capture their hearts. Kennedy and her writings have been featured in Chicken Soup for the Soul, USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, TIME, O magazine, and many others. She is a wife to her lifetime lover and mother to an extraordinary son.

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KennedyRyanWrites.com

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