This Time Next Year (The Brunswick Series Book 1) by Mariah Jolie

I had my future all mapped out. A stable job, a small-town life, and a boyfriend the whole town adores. Safe. Predictable. The kind of life people dream of.

Then I met him.

Cohen Maverson—a maddeningly handsome stranger with a sharp tongue and a smirk that could start a war—takes the seat across from me on a Swiss train, and within an hour, he shakes up my entire world. His wit challenges me. His gaze unravels me. And for the first time, I feel alive.

By the time the train stops, I’ve convinced myself it was nothing but a fleeting moment—one I can lock away under what if.

Then my high school sweetheart gets down on one knee.

Now, I’m standing at the crossroads of the life I’ve always known and the one I never saw coming. Do I say yes to the safe, comfortable love that’s waiting for me back home? Or do I chase the spark that Cohen lit inside me—the one that refuses to burn out?