One & Only

Maurene Goo

48 pages 1-hour read

Maurene Goo

One & Only

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2026

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Chapters 1-10Chapter Summaries & Analyses

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of illness, death, sexual content, and substance use.

Chapter 1 Summary

Cassia Park heads to her family’s One & Only Matchmaking office in LA at the start of May. She thinks about her upcoming birthday and the prospect of turning 40. At the office, her employees inform her that the private detective they hired to seek out her fated, Daniel Nam, didn’t find any leads. At One & Only, Cassia and her family use an ancient Korean art form called face reading to decipher clients’ soulmates, or their fated matches. Cassia’s grandmother (“Halmoni,” in Korean) read Cassia’s face when she was 30, visiting her past lives and discovering that her fated lover is named Daniel Nam. However, Cassia has yet to find or meet him. Halmoni has run the business for years alongside Cassia, her aunt Sunny, her great aunt (“Elmoni”), and their employees.


Today, Halmoni informs Cassia that their celebrity client Gemma Flores has arrived for a reading. Cassia greets Gemma and leads her to the reading room, studying family photos that include Cassia’s late mother, Evette, on the way.

Chapter 2 Summary

Cassie conducts a facial reading for Gemma, informing her what the shapes and sizes of her facial features mean for her personality and future. Then, she enters Gemma’s past life by reading her face and finds her fated love.

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