No Matter What, Cara Bastone
No Matter What, Cara Bastone
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No Matter What

Author: Cara Bastone

Narrator: Alex Finke

Unabridged: 10 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/03/2026


Synopsis

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Sometimes love sends you back to the drawing board.

After a traumatic accident threatens the foundations of their happy marriage, a couple tries to rebuild and find their way back to each other—and themselves—in this tender, slow-burn romance by the bestselling author of Ready or Not and Promise Me Sunshine.

“Cara Bastone is an absolute master of tender, emotional, soul-charged love stories.”—B.K. Borison, New York Times bestselling author of First-Time Caller

Roz and Vin can’t look each other in the eyes anymore, let alone share a bed. It’s been a year since they survived a life-altering accident, and their marriage hasn’t been the same. But Roz has held out hope that they can fix things, until she discovers Vin has signed a new lease. So she does what any soon-to-be-divorced Manhattanite would do: sign up for a figure-drawing class.

Between Roz’s determined attempts to improve her artistic skills and her adventures with her best friend, Raffi, she can almost ignore Vin’s impending move-out date and his footsteps in their previously unoccupied guest room. But it would all be a lot easier if Vin wasn’t Raffi’s older brother, and if she didn’t still find him incredibly, debilitatingly attractive and kind.

So kind, in fact, that Vin offers to let Roz draw him. What is she supposed to say? It’s probably better than her original plan of finding some random male model online, and she needs all the practice she can get. Plus, that’s sure to make a separation easier, right? Focus on every detail of your estranged spouse’s body while drawing him in the nude? But after the year they’ve spent avoiding each other, it feels good to see and be seen by one another again.

As Roz works to capture the wholeness of the person she fell in love with, will they both be able to draw upon the feelings they buried deep inside to finally heal together?

About The Author

Cara Bastone is the bestselling author of Ready or Not and Promise Me Sunshine. She lives and writes in Brooklyn with her husband, sons, and an almost-goldendoodle. Her goal with her work is to find the swoon in ordinary love stories. She's been a fan of the romance genre since she found a grocery bag filled with her grandmother's old Harlequin Romances when she was in high school. She's a fangirl for pretzel sticks, long walks through Prospect Park, and love stories featuring men who aren't hobbled by their own masculinity.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mira on September 23, 2025

3.5 ⭐ Roz and Vin have been married for eight years, but a car accident they went through a year ago changed them forever—they don’t even sleep in the same room anymore. Roz was hoping their marriage could still be saved, but then she notices a new lease with Vin’s name on it in the kitchen. She’s co......more

Goodreads review by SJARR ✨ on September 20, 2025

3.5 stars! *Review to be posted following this titles official publication date, as requested by the publisher (Random House | Dial Press Trade Paperback).......more

Goodreads review by Anniek on September 24, 2025

I'm so happy that this was my first 2026 release I got to read! Cara Bastone's previous two books immediately became all-time favourites for me, so this was definitely one of my most anticipated releases of 2026. No Matter What was again a great read, but it wasn't on the same level as Cara Bastone's......more

Goodreads review by Kate on September 28, 2025

4.75/5 MAY A LOVE LIKE VIN’S ALWAYS FIND ME. I’m a certified Cara Bastone fangirl. Her novels strike the perfect balance between love and pain, and that yin-yang is depicted through uber-relatable inner dialogue of her FMC’s that feel like she’s cracked open my own brain, the yearning of her main ch......more

Goodreads review by Gina on September 22, 2025

Listen, if we're talking realism, this is like the fuckin' masterclass. Roz and her husband Vin are shattered, maybe beyond repair, in the year since they got into a life-altering accident along with Roz's best friend who also happens to be Vin's brother. Going into the story, we only get Roz's poin......more