cover image You're (Not) the One

You're (Not) the One

Alexandra Potter. Plume, $15 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-0-452-29690-9

Teenagers Lucy Hemingway and Nate Kennedy blissfully celebrated their love with a kiss beneath Venice's legendary Bridge of Sighs. Then time and distance intervened, splitting up the perky British art student and the handsome American. Nate marries someone else, while Lucy endures a handful of so-so relationships. Ten years after that fateful kiss, she's given up on her dream of being a famous artist, settling for working in London and New York art galleries. Naturally, serendipity reunites her with Nate, now wealthy, divorced, and sexier than ever. It's Venice all over again until the unflinching light of reality exposes seemingly irreconcilable differences%E2%80%94but as Nate and Lucy try to build their own lives, fate keeps throwing them together. Readers will love this sweet, diverting tale that rests right on the border between women's fiction and contemporary romance. (Dec.)