Only Love Can Hurt Like This


 
 
 
 Praise for Only Love Can Hurt Like This
 
 “A tightly paced blend of angst and joy and hope. Perfect from start to finish. I absolutely adored this book!”
 —Christina Lauren, author of Love and Other Words
 “Only Love Can Hurt Like This is the story of small towns, big secrets, and even bigger love. Paige Toon’s writing is emotional and riveting. Even while her novel was breaking my heart into tiny pieces, I couldn’t put it down.”
 —Jill Santopolo, author of The Light We Lost
 “A gorgeous story that reminded me why Paige Toon is the queen of this genre. I adored Wren’s story, and the beautiful, rural American setting. This is a book that will have you swooning, crying, and turning the pages late into the night. I’m a huge fan of romance novels with questions or dilemmas at their heart, and Only Love Can Hurt Like This delivers a truly heartrending conundrum. The family dynamics are so well developed, and the relationships so real, that I had a hard time saying goodbye to these characters when I closed the last page.”
 —Sophie Cousens, author of Just Haven’t Met You Yet
 “Paige Toon writes such beautiful, emotional love stories. I adored 
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 The Minute I Saw You
 If You Could Go Anywhere
 Five Years from Now
 The Last Piece of My Heart
 The One We Fell in Love With
 The Sun in Her Eyes
 Thirteen Weddings
 The Longest Holiday
 One Perfect Summer
 Baby Be Mine
 Pictures of Lily
 Chasing Daisy
 Johnny Be Good
 Lucy in the Sky
 
 Short Stories
 
 One Perfect Christmas and Other Stories
 A Christmas Wedding (eBook short story)
 Johnny’s Girl (eBook short story)
 One Perfect Christmas 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 First published in the United Kingdom in 2023 by Penguin Books. Penguin Books is part of the Penguin Random House group of companies.
 Copyright © 2023 by Paige Toon
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