I Hope Eden Reads This (Pre-Order March 9th 2027)

I Hope Eden Reads This by Eli Rallo (Pre-Order March 9th 2027)

What happens when you lose the person who has been there for every version of you?

For more than two decades, Penelope Straker and Eden Willmington have been inseparable. They’ve grown up side by side through first kisses, college, mental health struggles, toxic relationships, and the exhilarating—and sometimes messy—transition into adulthood in New York City. Through it all, their friendship has been the one constant Penny could count on.

Until it isn’t.

Now, Penny and Eden aren't speaking, and Penny is struggling to understand how the person who knew her best could suddenly become a stranger. Her life begins to unravel: she's missing work, avoiding her therapist, obsessively swiping on Hinge, and convincing herself that everyone else is moving on without her. Losing Eden feels worse than any romantic breakup because Penny hasn't simply lost her best friend—she's lost the person who helped shape her understanding of herself and her past.

Desperate to make sense of what happened, Penny revisits more than twenty years of memories, tracing the moments that defined their friendship and searching for the point where everything went wrong.

Told through alternating timelines—one following Penny and Eden's lifelong friendship and the other exploring the messy aftermath of their falling-out—I Hope Eden Reads This is a sharp, intimate, and deeply relatable story about female friendship, growing up, heartbreak, and the complicated question of whether some relationships are meant to last forever.

For anyone who has ever had a best friend become a stranger, this is a story that asks: Is there any heartbreak more painful than losing a friendship?