Always and Forever, Lara Jean is a 2017 novel by American author Jenny Han, first published by Simon & Schuster and released on May 2, 2017.

After being waitlisted to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), Lara Jean decides to go with William and Mary with the plan of transferring to UVA after freshman year.

When Margot returns home from university in Scotland with her new boyfriend, Ravi, Lara Jean's father asks all of his daughters for their blessing to wed Trina.

As Lara Jean finishes her senior year and settles into her new routine, adjusting to time spent without Peter and to Trina's presence in her home, she learns that UNC has taken her off the waitlist and accepted her.

Lara Jean acts excited but is secretly unhappy because it will cut into her dwindling days with Peter.

At the bachelorette party for Trina, Lara Jean gets drunk for the first time and breaks up with Peter because she doesn't think long distance would work.