What Could Have Been

<p>This is how love stories should be told and portrayed in movies. With the cruelty of reality. Mike Gayle - 5 Stars</p><p><strong>Can love for someone who left ever truly fade or does it linger for a lifetime?</strong></p><p>What Could Have Been tells the deeply moving story of Emma and Oko two souls who once found each other when they were young only to be torn apart by circumstances neither could control.</p><p>Decades later Emma Textor is a respected solicitor engaged to a kind and dependable man. Her life is by all accounts settled. But when Oko unexpectedly reappears the emotions she buried long ago begin to surface. And as much as she tries to ignore them the truth is undeniable. Her heart never quite let him go.</p><p>Their connection is still there. Unmistakable. Unspoken. But so much has changed. They've built separate lives grown in different directions and now carry the weight of time duty and choices made. Caught between the life she's carefully built and the love that shaped her Emma is forced to ask herself a question she never thought she'd face again: What if?</p><p>In this raw and intimate novel Rosdet Nascimento paints a powerful portrait of lost chances unfinished stories and the strength it takes to choose love even when it might break you. With emotional twists unforgettable characters and moments that feel all too real What Could Have Been is a heartfelt journey through love sacrifice and the quiet ache of everything that almost was.</p><p>A story that stays with you. Long after the final page.</p>