When We Were

In 2007, Arden Bancroft threw herself into college life with new friends, a packed course load, and more confidence than relationship experience. More than a decade later, an offhand question about her college relationship leads her to reach out to her old boyfriend for his side of the story — and his answer reveals that the breakup that nearly broke her was never the betrayal she'd believed. Told across two timelines, Arden and her first love are forced to reckon with years lost to a misunderstanding neither of them saw coming.

Diana Elliot Graham opens the Arden Bancroft series with a dual-timeline second-chance romance about the stories we tell ourselves about heartbreak.