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Once, Again, Always

Amanda Gayle

New Release
4.17

"Filled to the brim with tenderness, yearning, and heart....Five effervescent stars!" -Brigitte Knightley, New York Times bestselling author

A second-chance romance following a young woman who wakes up in the hospital with no memory of the past six years, only to find that she apparently married the one man she can’t stand—her arrogant and infuriating former boarding school rival.

Molly Graham’s day can’t possibly get any worse after she wakes up in a hospital bed with a head injury and amnesia. But then Aster Bishop—the Aster Bishop who made her life hell at boarding school—storms into her room calling her his wife.

To Molly’s shock, in the six years she no longer recalls, she somehow fell in love with a man she once despised. Persuaded by her lifelong friends to give her new reality a chance, she reluctantly returns to the home she and Aster share to try and piece together her life.

So much has changed, not least the considerate and devastatingly handsome man who spends every night sleeping on the sofa to avoid making her uncomfortable. This Aster is nothing like the entitled boy she once knew. Their chemistry is undeniable-but he’s distant with her, infuriatingly so. It’s clear he has secrets, and Molly can’t stand it. Especially knowing that she might never regain her memories.

That she fell in love with Aster Bishop once is hard enough to believe. But to fall in love again? To promise a future, always, when she can’t remember her past? It feels impossible when faced with a man she hardly knows and isn’t sure she can trust.

And yet…

Tropes

• Rivals to lovers

• Forced proximity

• Slow burn

• Yearning (so much yearning)

• Found family

• Second-chance romance

• Memory loss

• There’s only one bed and he takes the sofa like a boring, sensible man

RomanceContemporary RomanceFictionYA
Pages
377
First published
October 6, 2026
Language
English
Edition
Ebook

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  • emotionalchallengingsad

    Started September 8, 2026 · Finished September 8, 2026

    “Just be gentle with me, Graham,” he breathed, reeling her in with her own name. “You’ve got me on the gallows here.” He let her braid fall. “But I’ll be damned if you’re not the most beautiful executioner I’ve ever seen.” ~ This books was so beautifully written and so heartbreaking. I adored it. I have been excited to read this book ever since it was first announced and I am so thankful I was able to get an early copy. Any book that starts with someone screaming that’s my wife is something I know I am going to be obsessed with. As soon as I started reading I was physically incapable of putting it down I needed to know the whole story immediately. It was so frustrating to only be inside the fmcs head and be just as confused as she was but the reveal at the end absolutely broke my heart and made me understand why things were happening. The one thing I wish is that the flashback scenes were of when the couple first got together rather than their boarding school days. But I absolutely loved this and I’ll be looking forwarding to seeing what this author writes in the future. Thank you so much to NetGalley and Harper Collin’s publishers for this EARC!

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    • julie ✨ *smashes request button on NetGalley because of this review and only this review*September 22, 2026