Nancy First and Last
1917
She stood in the garden, asking the only question that mattered: does he love me? When Terrence Wirt answers with silence rather than passion, Nancy Loomis's world cracks open. What follows is not merely a broken heart but an unraveling of everything she believed about herself. After her mother's death, Nancy learns the devastating truth: she is not Nancy Loomis at all. She is Anita Beltrán, and the life she knew was built on someone else's story. With nothing left but questions about who she actually is, she must leave everything behind and journey to Spain to find the brother she's never known. Blanchard writes with quiet intensity about the particular pain of losing both a lover and an identity simultaneously, and the courage required to become someone entirely new. This is a novel about the lies we inherit and the truths we must claim for ourselves. It endures for anyone who has ever wondered who they would be without the stories they've been told.
