Lauren Connolly (Healing Magic & Playboys, Rescue Me) effortlessly blends a story of shared grief with a romance of second chances in PS: I Hate You. After Maddie Sanderson spent years pining for Dominic Perry, the two shared a hookup. The next day, Dom proposed to his ex-girlfriend, and Maddie packed her bags and left Philadelphia, Dom, and her uncaring mother behind for a new life in Seattle, Wash. There, she dedicated herself to work, completing the puzzles her brother, Josh, made for her out of the pictures he took as a travel photographer, hating Dom but missing the close bonds she formed with his family.
But now that Josh has died, Maddie must follow the instructions he left behind in letters and spread a portion of his ashes in the eight states he was never able to visit. Maddie thinks that nothing could be worse than the pain of saying good-bye to her brother--until she finds out that Josh wanted someone to accompany her on the task: his best friend and the person who broke her heart, Dom. Experiencing beautiful wonders from Delaware to Alaska, Maddie and Dom fly, drive, swim, and hike their way to physical and emotional destinations with Josh as their guide. Each state brings Maddie closer to Josh's final words and to her unwanted reemerging feelings for Dom, and she is pushed to explore the beauty of the world and her not-so-beautiful emotions.
As Maddie learns the importance of letting grief out and letting love in, moments of sadness, humor, and slow-burning sexual tension make PS: I Hate You a heartbreaking and heartwarming enemies-to-lovers romance. --Clara Newton, freelance reviewer