The One and the Other One: Part One

By J.S. Baker

Fans of the movie Sliding Doors will love this debut novel from J.S. Baker "The One and the Other One" is a clean rom-com that will keep you guessing as you fall in love and experience with Rebecca that wonderful and tormenting question of 'what-if?'Do you ever wonder if you made the right choice about something? I sure as hell do. From simple things such as: Should I have stopped for that donut for breakfast? What would have happened if I wore the skirt instead of the pantsuit? Should I have tried out for softball instead of the school play? Would I have gotten food poisoning if I had avoided that new sushi place? To big things like: Did I go to the right college? Should I have taken that promotion? What would have happened if I had been there at that moment instead of somewhere else? Should I have called my mother more? To one of the biggest questions of all: Did I marry the right person? First loves are special, but so are last loves. Is it more special if those are the same person? Is it better to date more? Did you pick passion and wish there was more stability in your life or did you pick sense and wish you had more desire? Maybe I made the wrong choice. Perhaps I made the right choice. Is there really just one person out there for everyone or is it just that one person shows up with the right timing? I grew up watching fairy tales and reading about happily ever-afters. I have always been in love with the idea of love. But I have always wondered what came after the end of those books. Did they really live happily forever after that? They always married so young in those stories. Did the Princess make the right choice? Did they stay together or change their mind a decade later? Would she have chosen differently if the Prince weren't her only choice in the village of a half-decent and attractive man? Where is our story for when there are two Princes? Where is the road map for what happens after the "the end"? They screwed us over with their promises of happiness without showing us how to accomplish it after the big wedding finale. Fairy tales set us up for failure. I was scrolling through social media the other day and saw a drawn picture with an obviously busy but sad woman and several people surrounding her trying to get her attention for something. The woman's hands were out beside her, pressing against the people as she tried to squeeze through the crowd. Above that woman was a voice bubble that read, "Sorry I'm busy second guessing all the choices I have made that led me to this moment." My name is Rebecca and I am thirty years old. It used to be Rebecca Rhodes. I have loved two men in my life. Both seemed to me to be the right one. But I married one and not the other. Here I am at this moment, alone in a hotel room, headed toward heartache and perhaps divorce-and I am second-guessing. What would my life be like now if I had chosen the other one?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B087SCH888
• ISBN13: 9798640805031
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"