When We Had Forever

In this suspenseful contemporary, Gandhi (Once Charmed, Twice Cursed) takes readers on an emotional roller-coaster ride. The narrative opens with Mina Drake’s husband, Michael, dying in a car accident, then flashes back to their first meeting, 14 years prior: recent college grad Mina hits slightly older architect Michael in the face with a pie at a town festival in coastal Washington State. Mina’s immediately smitten and they marry quickly. But over the course of their 14-year marriage cracks form in their relationship. Gandhi toggles between recounting the couple’s slow drift away from each other and the present day, when a grieving Mina, now 36, forges a tentative relationship with Michael’s estranged identical twin brother, Grayson, a photographer for National Geographic. There are plenty of unexpected twists along the way, culminating in a bombshell about the twins that readers won’t see coming. Gandhi does a good job drawing out both the mystery and the romance and her characters are easy to love. Anyone on the hunt for angsty romance should snap this up. (Dec.)