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One & Only: A Read with Jenna Pick

by Maurene Goo

Fate, family, and a matchmaking mystery

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Fate, family, and a matchmaking mystery

Cassia Park’s family has built its matchmaking business around identifying clients’ destined partners through glimpses of past lives, but Cassia’s own fated match has eluded her for a decade. On the eve of turning forty, she begins an unexpected relationship with Ellis—then discovers his connection to the man she has been seeking. The setup brings romantic choice into conversation with inherited belief, while a family secret complicates Cassia’s understanding of both. Set across a Korean American family’s history from Korea to Los Angeles, the novel frames its love story around the tension between destiny and personal agency.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in contemporary romance shaped by questions of fate and choice
  • Readers drawn to stories about family secrets and intergenerational ties
  • Readers seeking fiction centered on an adult woman approaching forty

Themes

Fate and personal agencyRomantic loveFamily secretsIntergenerational heritage

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Book overview

In Five Years meets a millennial The Joy Luck Club in the adult debut from the author of YA Reese Pick Throwback-- a funny and fresh love story of a woman thrown a curveball by fate, and the family secret that will make her question everything.

She knows what her happily ever after looks like. And it's not him.

Cassia Park believes in soul mates. Fated love stories. It's her family business, after all--for centuries, from Korea to Los Angeles, Park women have peered into clients' past lives to find their one true love, their fated. This magical secret is why One & Only Matchmaking has a 100% guarantee...for everyone but Cassia.

For ten years, Cass has been searching for her fated, a man named Daniel Nam. But he's still nowhere to be found.

And so, on the eve of her 40th birthday, Cass decides to do something for herself. She impulsively has a fling with Ellis. He's twenty-eight, indecently handsome, and not destined to be the love of her life. But she's surprised by their connection and their fling feels like something more--up to the moment he introduces her to his boss...Daniel Nam.

As she battles between fate and chance, head and heart, a family secret is revealed that will make her question everything she's ever known. Cassia will have to decide if she'll follow her fate...or make her own.
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