Every New Year: 1 (Love at Last)

When Ezra Posner was eighteen he met Candace Garret and fell in love.When Candace met Ezra she instantly knew he was the boy for her.In the middle of their first year at college Candace and Ezra share a clumsy kiss that should have been the beginning of an epic love affair but its not. Instead it begins a nearly two-decade journey of never quite getting the timing right for love. For almost every New Years Eve after Candace and Ezra stumble into one anothers arms but cant manage to hold onto each other for more than a single night. They live with the expectant giddiness of being able to spend New Years Eve with the person they love always hoping that next year will be their year. Until eventually their annual trysts ruin even the friendship that held them together.As 2019 ends Candace and Ezra are both running away from their broken hearts. They board a plane hoping to finally move on from their relationship only to run right into each others arms.Every New Year is a friends-to-lovers romance that takes nearly twenty years to bloom. Its also the first in the Love At Last series where happily ever afters might take some time to mature but theyre always worth the wait.Content Warnings: parental sickness (cancer diabetes hypertension)