Emma Blair spent years grieving Jesse, her husband and childhood sweetheart, after his plane vanished on a solo flight home for their first anniversary. Four years later she has finally rebuilt a life she's proud of and is engaged to Sam, a steady, kind man who feels like solid ground after years of loss. Days before her wedding, Emma learns that Jesse is alive — found after years stranded, and coming home to the life and the woman he never stopped trying to get back to.
Told partly in flashback, the novel traces both relationships in parallel: the young, electric love Emma shared with Jesse before tragedy, and the calmer, hard-won partnership she's built with Sam since. Rather than treating this as a simple love triangle, Taylor Jenkins Reid uses the impossible choice to ask a harder question — whether a person can genuinely love two people differently but equally, and what "the one" really means once life has moved on without waiting for an answer.
One True Loves is a bittersweet, deeply human story about grief, reinvention, and the different shapes love can take across a life, from an author who would go on to write Daisy Jones & the Six and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.