The One for You (The Ones Who Got Away #4). By Roni Loren. 2019. Sourcebooks Casablanca (ARC ebook).

It’s been a few years since four unlikely friends, Olivia, Rebecca, Taryn and Kincaid, survivors of the Long Acre school shooting, reunited and read time capsule letters containing the dreams of their 18-year-old-selves and their promises to the Class of 2005. And Kincaid is now the only one still single, and happily so, so she tells herself. After all, she has always believed in the fairy tale of soulmates and since she had already found hers in Graham Lowell and lost him in the shooting over a decade ago, avoiding relationships has become as easy as breathing to her. But when Ashton Isaacs returns home to Long Acre and the Lowell’s enlist both his and Kincaid’s help with their bookstore, she realizes she can no longer ignore the hole their lost friendship has left in her life.

Kincaid is as sassy and impulsive as ever, but now we finally get to see that there is more heartbreak in her past then the loss of her boyfriend Graham Lowell. Ash and Kincaid were best friends during their teenage years, but Ash had always harbored stronger feelings for her than he let on. For him, Kincaid was always The One. But their shared grief over the shooting led to more hurt then either one knew how to handle and so Ash took off for New York to become a writer. He’s not back in town for long, but he’s no longer scared of taking another chance. If Kincaid will let him, he’ll be there for her in this emotional and sexy friends-to-lovers story.

As with the other three books in the series, The One For You is both a story about love and of personal healing, which adds wonderful depth to Kincaid and Ash’s Happily Ever After. And with it being the last, Loren delivers a very heartwarming closing of one chapter and the beginning of a new one in the lives of her four strong women and the swoon-worthy men who love them. This entire series is a definite home run.

4.25 stars--THE ONE FOR YOU is the fourth instalment in Roni Loren’s contemporary, adult THE ONES WHO GOT WAY erotic, romance series focusing on the survivors of a mass shooting the night of their senior prom-Finn Dorsey, Olivia Arias, Rebecca Lindt, Taryn Landry, Ashton Isaacs and Kincaid Breslin. This is real estate agent Kincaid Breslin, and writer Ashton Isaacs’ story line. THE ONE FOR YOU can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary but I recommend reading the series in order, or at the very least book one, for backstory and cohesion as the details about what happened are revealed in THE ONES WHO GOT AWAY.

Told from present day and memories of the past, using several third person perspectives including Ash and Kincaid THE ONE FOR YOU follows the former friends to lover relationship between real estate agent Kincaid Breslin, and writer Ashton Isaacs.

Fourteen years earlier, following the mass shooting at their high school prom, Kincaid would lose her boyfriend Graham Lowell, and Ashton would lose his best friend, and the woman he loved. Grief, guilt and unrequited love played a major role in Ashton Isaacs decision to leave Long Acre to pursue his dream of becoming a writer in New York but Ashton never forgot about the woman who called to his heart. Fast forward to present day, wherein Ashton would return to Long Acre in an effort to rediscover his muse in the wake of finding his fiancé with another man but a return to Long Acre came with too many memories of the past including the woman he still loved. Enter Kincaid Breslin, real estate agent. What ensues is the rebuilding friendship and relationship between Ash and Kincaid, and the potential fall-out when Ashton reveals the truth, as he knows it, about the day everything went to h*ll.

Kincaid Breslin believes she lost her soul mate the night of the Long Acre prom fourteen years earlier but the return of Ashton Isaacs brought back feelings Kincaid struggled to recall. Having both suffered at the hands of emotionally and physically abusive parents, Kincaid and Ashton became one another’s sole support in an effort to survive, one day at a time.

The relationship between Kincaid and Ash is one of former friends to lovers whose lives were torn apart by betrayal and hatred, and one man’s struggle to move on from his past. Kincaid believes Ash is too quick to run but Ash knew to remain in Long Acre, meant the possibility of losing everyone, all over again. The $ex scenes are intimate, erotic and intense, without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

All of the previous couples plays secondary and supporting roles including Liv and Finn (The Ones Who Got Away #1), Rebecca and Wes (the One you Cant Forget #2 ), Taryn Landry and Shaw Miller (The One You Fight For #3), as well as Graham’s parents Charlie and Grace Lowell.

The world building continues to focus on the struggle to move forward after the devastating mass shooting at the Long Acre High School. Kincaid battles between head and heart fearing the destruction of the memory of the boy she once loved; and Ash knows that the secrets he hides may destroy the woman he loves.

THE ONE FOR YOU is a story of second chances; of forgiveness and love; of friendship, family and moving forward. The premise is heart breaking, engaging and captivating; the romance is seductive and passionate; the characters are colorful, broken, energetic but strong.

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4.5 Stars - Top Pick

Ms. Loren saved the best for last! I will be the first to say that I loved this story the best out of the entire series.

This series is not an easy one to dive into. The subject matter is very taxing. I’m not a fan of dealing with traumatic events in my romances and to keep that theme in a romantic series while being realistic is very hard. Kudos to Ms. Loren! I found myself sympathizing with each couple and their issues while rooting for them to get that HEA.

Kincaid is the last of the girls to find romance. She is the one who hides behinds a façade. She is the one who brought all the girls together so I was very anxious to read her story. Kincaid is best friends with Ashton Issacs but everything changes for them after that shooting.

Fast forward, Kincaid and Ash are both leading very different lives. Something occurs and the two have not spoken since the night of the shooting. Kincaid stayed in their small town. She put her whole focus on her career as a real estate agent. She dates occasionally but nothing compares to love she felt for her soul mate, Graham, who died that night. To hide her pain, she ensures that everyone around her is doing great.

Ash doesn’t want to return home but after catching his fiancée cheating and his writing mojo dries up, he decides to go back home to regroup. The moment him and Kincaid see each other for the first time, they fight about the events of the past. The readers are left wondering what really went wrong. I don’t want to spoil what happened but I can see how both of them got hurt emotionally.

The chemistry between Ash and Kincaid is explosive. Ash is such a good guy. You know he is hiding something about what happened that night. You can see that he loved her from childhood and it is so frustrating knowing he never spoke up for himself. The stuff with his family to the childhood relationship with Kincaid, made me fall hard for Ash. I love a book nerd so I wanted Kincaid to snap out of it earlier.

Kincaid focuses on herself so she never really see the big picture. When she finally came put all of the pieces together, it is so beautiful. She didn’t wait to share her feelings with Ash. The emotions came fast at the end and I wanted a bit more of their story as lovers but they spoke to my romantic side.

Overall, I’m glad this series has come to an end. The author handled the subject matter with compassion. I would highly recommend it.

~ Samantha

4,5 stars

I started this series when it was first released and since then author Roni Loren has kept me captivated with each character from Long Acre.



Touching on a topic that is too close to home for so many, this author delivers a powerful plot that is focused on the survivors of a high school shooting and the turmoil they have faced in the years since that fatal day.



This book is so much more than a romance. It’s a story about friendship, healing from trauma, love after loss and overcoming the challenges that life throws at you and coming out stronger on the other side.



Long Acre has suffered a tragedy and this is the story of its survivors. Ashton Isaacs and Kindcaid Breslin were best friends through their teenage years. The nerdy bookworm and the popular girl, these two couldn’t be more opposite. But they found comfort in each other through shared stories and lots of laughs. Aston has harbored a crush on Kincaid since the first moment he laid eyes on her. He’d watch her from afar and quietly stepped back as his best friend Graham swooped in and claimed her for himself.



When the students of Long Acre High experience the day that will change their lives forever, Kincaid and Ashton find they both make it out alive. But losing her boyfriend, the captain of the football team and man she swore she’d marry, Kincaid loses herself in her grief and makes a mistake that will haunt her for years to come.



Ashton has always wanted to be a writer and with the monumental turn of events in his hometown, he finds there is no better time to leave the past behind and escape to a new life where he can start over pursuing his dream.



Years pass and both Ashton and Kincaid have changed. Now back in the same space after a decade apart, these two will finally have to face the decisions they’ve made and the secrets they’ve kept.



Ashton is no longer the skinny kid pinning after a girl out of his league. He’s muscular and sexy and 100% all man. Kincaid has grown into an even more beautiful woman and when she comes face to face with her long lost best friend, she can’t deny she sees him in a new light. The chemistry is undeniable and the yearning for what you can’t have is still simmering below the surface but wounds will need healed before any more boundaries will be crossed.



This was a beautiful story that combines friends to lovers, enemies to lovers, second chances, and love after loss. But author Roni Loren does it with such heart and soul, you can’t help but appreciate the tenderness she displays on this type of subject matter.



I’m sad to see this series come to an end but so thankful I discovered a new one-click author!

Who knew that a romance series based on a dark event like a high school shooting, the survivors, and the wide array of those left in the aftermath would take me by the heart and leave me anticipating the stories? Honestly, I wouldn’t have thought I would, but the author made a believer of me from the first book and now we come down to Kincaid’s story. This gal was the cheerleader who encouraged the other gals and the glue that brought them back together and held them close.
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The One for You is the fourth and final book in the series and, while one could probably read it standalone, I got so much more out of it, knowing the heroine from the previous stories.

The night of the shooting Kincaid survived, but her boyfriend didn’t and neither did her friendship with Ash. He left and didn’t look back. Since then, Kincaid has been faking it and pretending to be the life of the party and the one who beat the odds with a smile on her face. Instead, she’s secretly barely holding it together and keeps a steal grip on her heart from being hurt any more than it was. She put her deceased high school first love on a pedestal with no one else measuring up or allowed to. Into this life of hers returns Ash Isaacs, her one time best friend and she is so angry at what she sees as his abandonment. But, they are forced together on a project and she’s forced to realize the nerd is gone and a sexy, attractive man she struggles to resist is before her with no plans to stick around.

Ash Isaacs always loved Kincaid, but his bestfriend Graham was who she loved so he kept quiet and stayed in the friend spot for both of them. He left with secrets from that night and never planned to return. Now, he’s faced again with the mature version of Kincaid who he finds that he still loves and learns she won’t do love or relationships because her heart died with Graham. Not, that he stands a long-term chance anyway as soon as he tells her the truth of that long ago night.

I was thoroughly engaged with this one. I’ve already weathered a few emotionally shattering secrets in the course of this series and felt that Ash’s couldn’t possibly be worse. Although, that said, there I was again stressing about the ticking clock when this restored pair of friends ended up blown apart when he revealed all.

I was startled to see just how broken Kincaid really was. She seemed the most put together throughout the series though I knew she couldn’t be untouched by what happened and I wondered about her bubbly nature when the others were not. But, yes, this sense that she was hiding and had plastered Band-aids on things was what kept me from disliking her because of her behavior with Ash.
In spite of his secrets, he was a treasure and I was so frustrated that he had to compete with Graham a second time because she held so tightly to the idea that her one and only was gone.
Not that this stopped them from some hot, sexy times.
I enjoyed seeing her finally start to realize that Ash wasn’t a nerdy best friend now and nor was he a consolation prize (not that she hadn’t been acting like he was for most of the book while getting her act together). It was beautiful to see him stand true and put her first even when he knew what he’d lose by doing the right thing.

And, so we come to the end, at least I think it is. This one was rough at times and that was above and beyond the tragedy tearing such a huge hole into the community and the people in this series in particular. I think hope and healing were well-balanced with the darker aftershocks. It’s a series that is both highly emotional and nicely sexy. I would definitely recommend it for those who want some complexities in their characters and romance.

My thanks to Sourcebooks Casablanca for providing the e-ARC to be read in exchange for an honest review.

I was sad that this was the last book in this series. It was great to see how the others have come along and how their lives have changed.
Kincaid lost so much during the school shooting. She lost someone in the shooting but she lost someone after because he left her. Kincaid had the worst mother ever and she was poor. Ash was her best friend and his family like wasn’t what everyone thought it was.
I thought that what Ash did during prom was wrong and Kincaid was very forgiving. I know what he did was to prove a point but in the end I felt he was at fault for what happened to their other friend. I know he had to deal with the decisions he made the ones who were at center of it all and were to blame were the shooters.
I loved this series. I’m sad to see it end but I loved how it all ended. I highly recommend this book.

Wow-what an emotionally charged book! This was the first book in this series I have read (with it being the last book in the series) but I will definitely be going back to read the stories of Liv, Rebecca, and Taryn.

KC and Ash were the best of friends from the time they were kids through high school. Kincaid had a hard life at home but Ash and her boyfriend Graham were her rocks. Always the social butterfly, the center of attention she lived her life the way she thought it should be and with her best friend and soul mate by her side, she was going to be able to accomplish anything. Then Prom happened. Her soul mate was taken from her in a school shooting and her best friend fled after a night between the two of them that should have never happened.

Now 14 years later Ash is back in town and although he's seen KC over the years he's never been as close as he was before. Because he's holding a secret or two and if KC finds out, she'll never want to see him again. The two are amicable but when they are thrown together on a project together, he knows that he needs to confess to KC his secrets at some point.

This book was heavy at times. KC was a ray of sunshine, smiling at her antics and also feeling so hard for her and the past she can't seem to get away from. Ash was a nerdy book worm as a teen and as an adult, he hasn't ventured much from that stereotype being an author. But these two together are magnetic. And the sexual tension between them is through the roof.

I know I'm being pretty vague about it all but it really is a book that you need to take in yourself and experience. A best friend to lovers, small-town romance full of angst and passion. It was an amazing read.

I really loved this novel and can't wait to go back and read the other three books in the series. What a great way to kick off 2020.

I really enjoyed this book and thought it was a good ending to the series. I’m happy to see Kincaid finally get her happy ending.

Roni Loren is a master at taking a serious and distressing subject and weaving it into a profound and moving love story. The One for You by Roni Loren is the fourth book in her The Ones Who Got Away series. This book is a friends-to-lovers themed romance that follows the story of Kincaid and Ash after the Long Acre school shooting. Like all of the books in this series—the characters have depth, the storyline is strong, and the combination offers readers an emotional, yet fulfilling read.

This is the 4th book in the Ones Who Got Away series and I loved it. Loved Kincaid and Ash. Their story will tug at your heart strings just like the other couples in the other books. It is sad that this was the final book but it was a nice ending to series. Every girl was able to get the HEA that they deserved and I can’t wait to read more from this author.

I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley and I am voluntarily leaving an honest review.

3.5 Stars

Mass killings are so incredibly heartbreaking because the people who are injured and killed are innocent and many times don't even know why they are being attacked. This year, the number of these killings has reached a new high, with the first one having been only 19 days into 2019. There were 33 mass shootings and 44 mass killings as of December 24, 2019. So much for the hard facts I've tried to bring to awareness with my review in this series.

Kincaid always seemed to be the most bubbly one out of the four girlfriends but getting to know her in her story made me realize that she, too, had some demons to battle. She doesn't remember the shooting, she only knows that she lost her high school sweetheart and the young man she wanted to spend her life with. Then there was her best friend, the guy who left town after the shooting and never looked back. Both events she never got over.
I found Kincaid in her own book a little harder to love than in the previous ones. Her random hookups, her lack of impulse control and her being self absorbed and not being careful with Ash's heart had me looking at her not fondly at times.
He would not do this again. He’d spent way too much time feeling that burn in his gut while he’d watched Kincaid fall for Graham.

Unrequited love, a horrible family history and the shooting drove Ash away from his hometown. Now a well known author with writer's block, Ash decides to go back after the breakup of the engagement with his cheating girlfriend. When he runs into Kincaid again they have a lot of animosity between them to overcome. And as they do, we learn a little bit about their friendship, which I thought was the best part of their relationship. It broke my heart a little to see how much Ash loved Kincaid and she never saw more than a friend in him. Which is also why I couldn't buy into Kincaid's sudden realization that Ashton was her soulmate, after believing years and years that her high school sweetheart was the only one she would ever love. I also felt a lack of chemistry between these two because of that and their focus on their friendship.

While Kincaid was a bit of a mixed bag for me, Ash had my heart from beginning to end. He was a bit nerdy, totally my kind of guy, but also loyal, protective and adorable. I wish Kincaid would have appreciated more. I didn't care for her attitude when the truth tore them apart but eventually she made it up to this reader and the ending was really lovely.
He was a part of her, of who she was, of who she became. This was Ash.

We have come to the end of this series and it's been quite an emotional ride. The thing that stood out most over the course of all four books is the friendship between the four heroines and it was never stronger and filled with more love, support and understanding as in THE ONE FOR YOU. I adore the bond these women have and the last scene before Roni Loren sent them all into their HEA was the most touching and will stick with me for a while. I'm a little sad that this series is over and having to say goodbye to all of these characters but I'm sure the next books by Ms Loren will be just as touching and emotional and I'm here for it!
She had a home. She had her friends. And now, she had her soul mate. Love. It all came back to love.

I was excited to get Kincaid's story! This is an emotional and powerful series and I can't get enough! Kincaid was known for her rash decisions and this time, it has quite the impact! I enjoyed this girl's spunkiness! She was a survivor and was determined not to let the situation hold her down. She loved fiercely and fully. Ashton wasn't prepared to let past collide with the present. However, circumstances had him returning to his hometown. I liked the flow of this story and was very quickly lost in their journey. I FELT what these characters were going through. Roni brought them to life and I wanted to be friends with them! Hello, book hangover! I have enjoyed this series and I loved Kincaid's story. I can't recommend it enough!

While this series was a difficult one to read because of the world we live in, Roni Loren weaves a truly beautiful love story throughout each book in the series. This one is no different. Friends when the inconceivable happened, they each carry their own guilt as shields in order to never truly let anyone else in. Why love if you will just lose it? Throw in a boy who had feelings for an unattainable best friend, secrets, spotty memory, friends with benefits, torn pasts (over and above the school shooting) and you have a recipe for a mesmerizing story of forgiveness...of others and themselves.

Prior to reading this series if you had told me I would actually enjoy a series that is rooted in the aftereffects of a school shooting I would have been very skeptical. In addition my previous exposure to Roni’s writing has been her quite spicier ‘Loving on the Edge’ and ‘Pleasure Principle’ series which were a completely different type of experience. While I enjoyed all of the books in this series, I think this last outing was the strongest and most emotional as I’m a sucker for the best friends to lover trope with a huge helping of angst thrown on top.

Kincaid and Ashton were both sympathetic characters who had very different but tough backgrounds even before the tragedy of the prom shooting. Kincaid grew up with a mom who constantly brought home new men and knew that many people in town viewed her in the same light. While Ash came from a middle-class background, he had a strained relationship with his parents due to the attitude and behavior of his football coach father. They bonded in grade school and their friendship only grew over the years, including working together at the bookstore owned by the parents of Kincaid’s boyfriend Graham. What Kincaid never knew is that Ash had developed feelings for her but knowing that she had a crush on Graham, he had suppressed them because all he wanted was for Kincaid to be happy.

Their friendship was torn apart after the shooting and Graham’s death as Ash left Long Acre and Kincaid behind in his haste to escape the events of that night and the guilt he felt over his actions at the prom. Because Kincaid had blocked most of the night due to the trauma, she felt abandoned and mourned the loss of not only her boyfriend but her best friend as well. Over the years they had only run into each other at Christmas until 14 years later when Ash returns to town after a breakup and they are forced to face each other and eventually the full truth of what happened that night is revealed.

The journey Kincaid and Ash go through in this book is an intense one, and as a reader your emotions are really put through the wringer. This was definitely my favorite of the series and I would highly recommend the whole series with the caveat that the subject matter may not be for everyone; while the shooting scenes are minimized they may still be too much for some readers. In addition there is are elements of domestic abuse including both physical and mental though to a much lesser extent, so please keep both warnings in mind before starting.

I would also be remiss if I didn’t mention how much I love the covers for these books-they are absolutely gorgeous!

Thank you to Sourcebooks Casablanca and Netgalley for the review copy, all opinions are my own.

A wonderful conclusion to this series.

It's been a year since the previous book in this series came out but the final book, The One for You, was more than worth the wait. While you could probably read each of the books in this series as standalone stories, you would be doing yourself an injustice if you don't read them in order. Book one is especially important as it sets up the series as well as telling the story of the first couple.

An entire series based on something as dreadful as the tragedy of a school shooting seems almost unimaginable for a romance, but Roni Loren totally makes it work. Each book in The Ones Who Got Away series has been gut-wrenching in its own way, but each has ultimately been uplifting with a wonderful HEA.

Second chance stories and friends-to-lovers are my romance kryptonite and The One for You rolls both tropes into a perfect story. Kincaid and Ash were best friends in high school and they both survived the tragedy; unfortunately, their friendship didn't. Circumstances have let them to reconnect and they have agreed to a fresh start. But Kincaid doesn't know that Ash has been withholding information and when she finds out what it is her reaction is a bit different than what I expected.

I could go into all kinds of detail about this book but no review I write could ever do it justice. (That's why I'm a reader and not a writer. 😊) I will just say that the story turned me inside out and made me use up more tissues reading it than any other book I've read recently. And it was worth every single tear and tissue used.

Roni Loren is a fantastic storyteller and one of only a handful of M/F romance writers that I still read. I don't know what she has coming next but I will be waiting in line to read it.

The One for You has made my list of MUST READS for 2019! I know it releases at the end of the year, so it will slide into my 2020 list as well! This series has been an emotional ride. Hats off to Roni Loren who wrote about a sensitive subject that we sadly see happening all the time in our schools. Behind the tragedy, Roni Loren shows you the after story. How four wonderful ladies learn how to live again. They find the confidence and glory in a thing we call life.

The One for You is Kincaid's and Ashton's story. It has so much heart and brings a few tears to the readers eye. A small town trying to rebuild. A secret love that is hidden for years to come. The friendship that is as solid as gold. The growth you see between Kincaid and Ash is something magical. They stopped living in the past and ready to move forward. And last, my heart strings were pulled with Ash's words. His beautiful words that had Kincaid fall in love all those years back.

This story seems like its a bit complicated, but it really is not. You feel the pain and sadness, but then you also feel the hope and love. I truly loved this story!

This was the fourth in the series. However, you can most definitely read this as a standalone. Roni Loren just got better with each book in this series. I absolutely loved everything about this book. The characters and the developing relationship between the two main characters are top notch. My favorite trope is friends to more and Roni Loren delivered on that front. The amount of chemistry in the book is like rocket science. The amount of background, banter, wittiness, and sexiness thrown in this relationship is perfect. Roni Loren wrote this friendship perfectly. The connection is real. The story feels so real. I just couldn't get enough of this connection.

Roni Loren sucked me into this story within the first couple paragraphs. The way Roni writes really makes you feel things. The background of this story is a school shooting which is something we have to hear about / go through way too often in this day and age. I appreciate the topic and the way these characters helped to make that event not define their lives. This whole series and book are definitely something you should put on your reading list!

4.5 stars

Kincaid Breslin may have stayed in Longacre, but has doe her best to move beyond the events that defined her final year as a high schooler. As one of the survivors, she has emotional scars from that night - the night that she lost her boyfriend and her best friend.

Ashton Isaacs left Longacre as soon as he could, leaving behind the grief that comes from surviving when his best friend’s boyfriend lost his life. He has other reasons for avoiding his hometown though, reasons that make sense when one peels back the veneer of the perfect household to see the abuse hiding behind the public personas his parents project. Between book contracts and at the end of a live-in relationship, he finds himself returning to Longacre to live with his surrogate parents while he figures out what is next.

Kincaid and Ashton had a bond as kids that severed on prom night and with the aftermath of that tragedy. Now that they are adults, can they bridge the hurt that sent them in different directions? And if they can, how do they handle the past secrets that have been covered up?


This was a second chance in a couple different respects. Both Kincaid and Ash have to face parts of their pasts they have preferred to gloss over. Kincaid has a tendency to move from project to project, and her current project is the biggest she has undertaken. But as she begins making plans, she also finds it might be exactly what she was looking for without even knowing. Ash has avoided Longacre, but he has also spent all this time hiding the fact that he wished he was the one dating Kincaid all those years ago.

I loved watching these two as they worked to put the past behind them once and for all. The bond of their friendship is such that even after all these years apart, there is an ease between them that settles in naturally. It is only as they confront the secrets that their friendship is truly tested and the secrets revealed may just change everything they though.

ARC provided for review purposes.

The One For You is the final story in The Ones Who Got Away series – and it was definitely the story I most wanted to read. Kincaid has been vital to each book up to this point, her presence is felt, even needed throughout the series, yet this time we see what the mask hides, the still constant pain, the confusion and yes, the growing hope for the future – one with Ash. On the surface, Kincaid has taken on life at a full charge. She survived. So now she’s going to live her life to the fullest without regret – still, there are memories, feelings that she’s buried deep, and perhaps some truths she wasn’t really ready to acknowledge. Ashton’s return will bring all of this and more to the surface as two people who were childhood friends get a second chance to get it right this time, at this moment, if they are willing to take risks and the memories of the past can be put where they need to be… in the past.

Because this is the finale for this series I want to be even more careful than usual about what I say for you really should experience Ash and Kincaid’s story firsthand, especially if you’ve followed the series from the beginning. The One For You brought closure for me, to not only the series but to each survivor’s story – I only needed Kincaid’s and Ash’s input to make it all fall together. There will be tears, they are necessary for healing, there will be laughter, and there will be truths acknowledged, some that should have been seen for what they are long, long ago. The journey for this couple to find their happy ever after has a few bumps in the road, but they work through, around what stands in the way to get what they both deserve in the end – happiness, a life together, a future.

I’ve been waiting for this story – and it delivered. That’s perhaps the highest compliment I can give. The One For You is an emotional story on many levels, it’s a friends to lovers romance, a second chance at love, and an overall really good story that should not be missed.

*I received an e-ARC of this novel from the publisher via NetGalley. That does not change what I think of this story. It is my choice to leave a review giving my personal opinion about this book.*

A very nice conclusion to a series about survivors of a high school shooting. This was Kinkaid’s story which concluded with a happily ever with her best friend from high school Ashton. I found myself skipping the introspection to get to the dialog in this story, I already knew how Ashton felt about Kincaid I wasn’t interested in 3 pages of his thoughts about it. For this reason I give this book 4 stars.