One Last Stop
For cynical twenty-three-year-old August, moving to New York City is supposed to prove her right: that things like magic and cinematic love stories don’t exist, and the only smart way to go through life is alone. She can’t imagine how waiting tables at a 24-hour pancake diner and moving in with too many weird roommates could possibly change that. And there’s certainly no chance of her subway commute being anything more than a daily trudge through boredom and electrical failures. But then, there’s this gorgeous girl on the train. Jane. Dazzling, charming, mysterious, impossible Jane. Jane with her rough edges and swoopy hair and soft smile, showing up in a leather jacket to save August’s day when she needed it most. August’s subway crush becomes the best part of her day, but pretty soon, she discovers there’s one big problem: Jane doesn’t just look like an old school punk rocker. She’s literally displaced in time from the 1970s, and August is going to have to use everything she tried to leave in her own past to help her. Maybe it’s time to start believing in some things, after all. Casey McQuiston’s One Last Stop is a magical, sexy, big-hearted romance where the impossible
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Cynical August moves to Brooklyn for college and falls hard for Jane, the punk girl on the Q train who turns out to be stuck on that line, and in 1977, since she boarded it the first time.
Yes. One Last Stop contains explicit on-page romance scenes, around 4 out of 5 on the spice scale. Casey McQuiston is known for queer romance with significant on-page intimacy.
Yes. One Last Stop contains explicit on-page romance scenes, around 4 out of 5 on the spice scale. Casey McQuiston is known for queer romance with significant on-page intimacy.
Yes. One Last Stop is a sapphic time-travel romance about a New York grad student who falls for a woman stuck in time on the Q train. It is one of the most-read F/F romances of the 2020s.
One Last Stop was written by Casey McQuiston, published in 2021 by St. Martin's Press.
One Last Stop is 432 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, One Last Stop takes most readers 6 to 9 hours to finish.
One Last Stop is a standalone novel by Casey McQuiston, not part of a series.
One Last Stop is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.