Everybody thought Shiloh and Cary would end up together, everybody but Shiloh and Cary. Slow Dance follows these star-crossed best friends from their inseparable teen years on the wrong side of the tracks to their far-flung adulthoods, through her marriage and motherhood and his time in the Navy, as they try to work out what they’re actually supposed to be to each other. Told with Rowell’s trademark sensitivity and abundant wit, Slow Dance is a big, beaming power ballad of a novel about a love so true, it refuses to be forgotten.