If We Ever Meet Again is the first novel in Ana Huang's If Love series. Set during a year abroad in Shanghai, it follows two college students from completely different worlds whose unexpected romance blossoms into a passionate first love. Emotional, heartfelt, and filled with slow-burn chemistry, the novel explores how timing, distance, and life choices can change even the strongest relationships.
Nineteen-year-old Farrah Lin has always dreamed of experiencing the kind of unforgettable love she has only read about in books. When she travels to Shanghai for a year-long study abroad program, she hopes to reconnect with her late father's homeland while discovering who she truly is. Falling in love is the last thing she expects—especially with someone she believes she can never have.
Blake Ryan is a confident former football star who enjoys freedom and avoids emotional commitments at all costs. Charming, sarcastic, and completely convinced that love only complicates life, he couldn't be more different from Farrah. Yet circumstances repeatedly bring them together, and what begins as an unlikely friendship slowly develops into a deep emotional connection.
As they explore Shanghai together, share unforgettable adventures, and build lasting friendships with fellow exchange students, their feelings become impossible to ignore. But both know their time together has an expiration date. When the exchange program ends, reality—and the lives waiting for them back home—threatens everything they have built together.
Ana Huang combines romance with emotional maturity, portraying the excitement of first love alongside the difficult choices that come with adulthood. Themes of cultural identity, personal growth, family expectations, ambition, and heartbreak are woven into a story that captures both the joy and pain of loving someone when life refuses to cooperate.
