So when Emma meets Sam and decides to try going on a date, it’s a huge step for her, and one we want her to take. Grief is a process and there are no shortcuts, and nothing is prettied up here. We see her torment and devastation, her craziness, her defeat. The book doesn’t shy away from pain and grief. Jesse and Sam are both devoted to Emma, but each represents something very different to her. It wouldn’t really be a dilemma if it was an easy choice. In fact, the author makes sure that we see just how special they both are. You can’t look at Jesse or Sam and say that either one is a better person or is more deserving of Emma’s love. The writing just sucked me in as of the very first line, and I simply couldn’t look away. I read this book in the space of a single day, because I couldn’t stop reading until I knew how it all would work out. One True Loves is an emotional rocketship ride, from a powerful take-off through chapters and paragraphs that go zooming by, all the way to the dynamic ending. Every time she seems to realize which is the person she can’t do without, her heart breaks at the thought of giving up the other. She can’t imagine hurting either man, but she knows she has to choose.

Jesse was her one true love - but so is Sam. If Jesse hadn’t disappeared, they’d certainly still be together. She loves Sam, but she loved Jesse with all her heart and soul for so long.

Seven weeks later, Jesse arrives back in Massachusetts after getting his strength back, desperate to reunite with Emma and pick up where they left off. Jesse is alive, miraculously found again years after his supposedly fatal crash. I am finishing up dinner with my family and my fiancé when my husband calls. They’re happy.Īnd then, as the very first line of the book tells us: Emma and Sam are in love, and establish a home and a life together. With much soul-searching, Emma brings herself to a point in her life where she’s ready to love again. Yet with time and with the support of her family, years pass, she recenters herself and finds a new purpose, and finally, meets an old friend with whom there’s an instant connection. But the day before their first anniversary, on a work assignment, Jesse in lost in a deadly helicopter crash in the Pacific Ocean and presumed dead.Įmma’s world is shattered, and she believes she’ll never recover from her grief. Emma and Jesse fall madly in love, eventually get married, and escape their small New England town for a life full of adventure and travel. Emma Blair had the great good fortune to meet her soulmate at age 17.

One true loves book summary