A beautiful story of friendship, and second chances at love
Imogen Finch has just been through her sixteenth breakup. She saw it coming, so she’s not as crushed as she might be, but with all sixteen of her exes leaving her for other partners, she’s come to believe a prediction her well-intentioned and possibly clairvoyant mother made over twenty years ago: that Imogen would never come first at anything or to anyone.
Is her love life failing due to a magical curse? Insufficient effort? Poor timing or personality mismatches? Everyone has opinions on the matter.
Imogen’s ready to give up altogether. But when Eliot Swift, her secret high school crush, returns to their small coastal town after a decade of nomadic travels, Imogen has new motivation to try again. Eliot’s full of encouragement. He suggests that her curse is not only imagined, it’s easily breakable. All they need is one win—any win—and she can believe in love—and in herself—again.
From trivia games to swimming races to corn-shucking contests, the pair sets out to snag Imogen her first first. But when victory proves more elusive than Eliot anticipated and when his deep-seeded wanderlust compels him to depart for far-away places, Imogen fears she is destined to remain in second place forever.
Fortunately for them both, sometimes magic lingers in the most unexpected places. And love is far from predictable.
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“The Predictable Heartbreaks of Imogen Finch was far from predictable and filled up my heart in all the best ways.”
— Alicia Thompson, bestselling author of Love in the Time of Serial Killers
“One of the best romances I’ve read this year.”
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Jacqueline Firkins is the author of four novels for teens and adults. She’s also a costume designer on the full-time faculty in the Department of Theatre and Film at the University of British Columbia, Canada.
Rebecca Gibel is an award-winning stage, television, and voice actress. The narrator of over fifty audiobooks, Rebecca is facile in a wide variety of genres. Rebecca has worked across the country at theaters such as Trinity Rep, Cleveland Play House, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Intiman Theatre, and the Arden Theatre Company. She holds a BA from the College of William & Mary and an MFA in acting from Brown University/Trinity Rep.