Dear Reader,
When The Last Thing He Told Me entered the world, the Reese’s Book Club community embraced the novel with your whole hearts. I can’t begin to thank you for that. Or to express my gratitude for your wonderful notes, posts and DMs—and all the ways you welcomed this novel (and me along with it) into your lives.
So many of you who reached out asked the same question: what happens next for Hannah Hall?
And while I often imagine a future for my characters, long past the last page, I was surprised that I had an answer to this question, whole cloth. It was an answer that started right where The Last Thing He Told Me ends—and which takes Hannah and Bailey on a relentless race across the world. An answer that takes us back forty years into the past – to find the way to the future that Hannah deserves.
The First Time I Saw Him is about many things: forgiveness, redemption, salvation. But, more than anything, it’s about the enduring power of love—a love that, sometimes, just might lead us to a second chance.
I can’t wait to hear what you think.
