Justin posts on Reddit that the women he dates always marry the person they date after him. After being prompted by her friend Maddie to respond, Emma does and they begin a correspondence. 

As traveling nurses, Emma and Maddie can pick where they want to work. They decide to go to Minnesota, where Justin lives, and soon Emma’s dysfunctional mother Amber arrives. Justin’s mother is going off to jail for several years (all the mothers seem to suck in this book), and he’s getting custody of his much younger siblings. 

(With a 20+ year age gap between Justin and his youngest sibling, I thought there were different fathers but seemed like it was just one father who passed away.)

There’s a lot to like here. I like how the author talks about all the trigger warnings and issues discussed in the book, and she also talks about them at the end. She does touch mental illness with deftness in her books. 

This was an enjoyable read. The stakes never felt very high, though, since Emma can work wherever she wants. But I liked how therapy and self-discovery were the crux of the real issue. There were a few moments where I had to suspend belief. All in all, this is a fun book with more depth than you might expect.