The Breakaway

Thirty-three-year-old Abby Stern has made it to a happy place. True, she still has gig jobs instead of a career, and the apartment where shes lived since college still looks like shes just moved in. But shes got good friends, her bike, and her bicycling club in Philadelphia. Shes at peace with her plus-size bodyat least, most of the timeand shes on track to marry Mark Medoff, her childhood sweetheart, a man she met at the weight-loss camp that her perpetually dieting mother forced her to attend. Fifteen years after her final summer at Camp Golden Hills, when Abby reconnects with a half-his-size Mark, it feels like the happy ending shes always wanted.
Yet Abby cant escape the feeling that something isnt right...or the memories of one thrilling night she spent with a man named Sebastian two years previously. When Abby gets a last-minute invitation to lead a cycling trip from NYC to Niagara Falls, shes happy to have time away from Mark, a chance to reflect and make up her mind.
But things get complicated fast. First, Abby spots a familiar face in the groupSebastian, the one-night stand she thought shed never see again. Sebastian is a serial dater who lives a hundred miles away. In spite of their undeniable chemistry, Abby is determined to keep her distance. Then theres a surprise last-minute addition to the trip her mother, Eileen, the woman Abby blames for a lifetime of body shaming and insecurities shes still trying to undo.