This truly was a bittersweet read. Connolly manages hard topics such as grief and heartbreak wonderfully. The book opens in a way I never would have expected and drew me in to Maddie’s life from the very first chapter. I loved Maddie and Dom’s back-and-forth dialogue and their clash of a non-existent relationship. They end up on a road trip together to scatter her brother’s ashes and end up revisiting things that had happened between them in the past. This is a story with so much heart. I absolutely adored it.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Maddie Sanderson would be proud to honor her older brother’s dying wish, that she scatters his ashes over eight destinations that the adventurous 29-year-old never got to visit before he died from cancer. But in his will, Josh assigned her an impossible partner to help complete the mission—Dominic Perry. Seriously, if Maddie weren’t already at her brother’s funeral, she would have killed him for this.
Sure, Dom was Josh’s life-long best friend. He’s also the infuriating man who broke Maddie’s heart back when she was naïve enough to give it to him. But since Dom insists on following the rules and Josh didn’t leave much room for Maddie to argue the matter, they embark together on a series of farewell trips that span thousands of miles, exploring new places and revisiting their complicated history along the way.
After a snowstorm leads to a shared bed, Maddie starts to wonder if her brother might be matchmaking from the grave. But when grief also reopens old wounds between them, Maddie will need more than Josh’s ghostly guidance to trust Dom again.
