After a decade aside, childhood sweethearts reconnect by chance in New York Times bestselling author Christina Lauren’s touching, romantic novel Like and Other Words…how many terms will it take for them to figure out where it all went wrong?

The story from the heart can’t ever be unwritten.

Macy Sorensen is settling into an ambitious if emotionally tepid schedule: function hard as a new pediatrics resident, strategy her wedding ceremony to an older, financially secure guy, keep her head down and heart tucked about Love and Other Phrases away.

But when she incurs Elliot Petropoulos-the first in support of like of her life-the careful bubble she’s constructed starts to dissolve. A long time ago, Elliot was Macy’s entire world-growing from her gangly bookish friend in to the man who coaxed her heart open again following the lack of her mom…only to break it in the very night time he declared his love for her.

Informed in alternating timelines between Then and Now, teenage Elliot and Macy grow from friends to very much more-spending weekends and sluggish summers together in a residence outside of San Francisco devouring books, sharing favorite words and phrases, and talking through their developing aches and triumphs. As adults, they have grown to be strangers one to the other until their chance reunion. Although their thoughts are obscured with the agony of what occurred that night so many years back, Elliot will come to understand the reality behind Macy’s decade-long silence, and can have to get over the past and himself to revive her beliefs in the chance of the all-consuming love.