WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN

Two versions of a woman’s life unspool after chance meetings with two men—each potentially her soul mate.

Her first day at university in Norwich, Lucy found her soul mate, Max. Or so she thought. When he suddenly dumps her a few years later, she falls into a spiral of grief that causes her to drop out of college to travel the world and write a novel. After a catastrophic, scarring incident in Australia, she comes back home to Shoreley, on the coast of England, where she stays for 10 years, growing into her job in advertising. The book opens the day she quits her job and her horoscope predicts she could bump into her soul mate. And she does meet two men that night: Caleb, a photographer, whom she speaks to for two minutes before she unexpectedly sees the one-time-love-of-her-life, Max, through the pub window, and rushes outside to talk to him for the first time in nearly a decade. Author Miller has created two storylines that unfold from that one night and the resulting decision that Lucy makes to either move to London or stay in Shoreley. In London, she pursues a high-end advertising job, lives with her friend Jools, and rekindles her relationship with Max. In Shoreley, she continues to live with her sister, Tash, and brother-in-law, Simon, joins a writing group to help her finally work on her long-planned novel, and begins a relationship with Caleb. While the stories are predictable, they are well told. Love, heartbreak, forgiveness, healing, and the question of whether happiness in love can be a choice or is only possible with a soul mate are all explored.

A bittersweet tale of love lost and found that explores how even good people can make mistakes and find redemption in love.