I mean, really, why did I wait so looonnngggg? Have you ever wanted to read a book but for some reason or other you keep skipping it over for something else? Until, when you finally get around to reading it, you’re all kinds of furious with yourself for waiting so long? Because it turns out that the book is so incredibly marvellous you can’t believe you’ve spent the last six years without these characters in your life? Yeah, well, Then There Was You was that kind of read for me. Please note: I radically altered the beginning of this synopsis because I felt it revealed too many spoilers so I condensed things into one brief sentence bracketed by *s.

But can they find a way to bridge the differences that pull them apart? Or will they choose the safety and security of what they know over taking a chance on something that will require them to risk everything? When Josh and Paige are thrown together to organize his band’s next tour, the sparks fly. Especially one who despises everything he’s ever worked for and manages to push every button he has. The last thing he needs is some American girl tipping his ordered life upside down. He’s determined to never risk it happening again. But his past failed romantic relationships almost destroyed both his reputation and his family. Josh Tyler fronts a top-selling worship band and is in demand all over th world. There she finds herself, against many of her convictions, as a logistics planner to one of Australia’s biggest churches, and on a collision course with her boss’s son. A moment of temporary insanity finds her leaving her life in Chicago to move to Sydney, Australia. Paige McAllister needs to do something drastic.* She’s been playing life safe and predictable for six years.* Things need to change.

Would you give up everything for a life you hate with the person you love?

Then There Was You by Kara Isaac