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ONE & ONLY by Maurene  Goo Kirkus Star

ONE & ONLY

by Maurene Goo

Pub Date: Feb. 3rd, 2026
ISBN: 9798217181162
Publisher: Putnam

A matchmaker must choose between following fate’s wishes or choosing her own path.

Cassia Park is in the business of love. As a matchmaker for One & Only, she helps love stories come true every day. But One & Only isn’t a regular matchmaking service, and that’s because the Park women have been able to read faces (and see past lives) for hundreds of years, from their roots in Korea to their current lives in Los Angeles. Their matches have an unprecedented 100% success rate because of their magical (and very secret) abilities. Cassia, however, has been waiting to meet the one she calls her “fated” for 10 years, and all she has to go on is his name—Daniel Nam. Cassia is eager to start a family, but as her 40th birthday approaches, she’s beginning to panic that she may never find Daniel. When a bike accident meet-cute introduces her to 28-year-old Ellis Yang-Cohen, she has a weekend fling that she knows won’t amount to anything—after all, Ellis is way too young for her and he isn’t her fated. But their connection is immediately strong, and they keep bumping into each other. Then she meets his boss, whose name is (surprise!) Daniel Nam. Torn between the man she loved in a past life and the man she’s drawn to in this one, Cassia must learn how to follow her heart and decide her own future. In her adult debut, Goo creates a delightfully dramatic love story that will keep readers on their toes. Ellis and Daniel are both good people and solid matches for Cassia, which makes her inability to decide between them feel sufficiently agonizing. Cassia’s close-knit family includes a wonderful bunch of elderly relatives who add to both the humor and the heartache.

A perfect blend of steamy angst and family drama makes for a love triangle that’s impossible to put down.