The First Love: A Love Story of Growing Up, Letting Go, and Finding Each Other Again

Some loves arrive when you are too young to understand what they will cost you.At seventeen, Jenny Baptiste falls completely for Daniel Ashworth-a quiet, kind boy who sees her not as the daughter of a famous DJ, not as the complicated product of an unusual family, but simply as Jenny.Their first love is everything first love is supposed to be: intense, hopeful, reckless, and absolute. Then Jenny discovers she is pregnant.For a while, they believe they can build a life together. They become parents while they are still teenagers, learning adulthood together as Daniel chases his dream of making music and Jenny struggles to balance motherhood, education, and the fear that the man she loves will eventually choose somewhere else over her.When their relationship finally breaks, neither of them is the villain. They are simply too young, too wounded, and not yet ready to become the people their love requires.Jenny moves forward.Over the next two decades, she builds a career, raises her daughter Odile, and falls in and out of love with different men-each relationship teaching her something about what she needs, what she can forgive, and what she must never again accept.But some stories refuse to stay finished.