What if you could go back and make the choice you’ve regretted for twenty-seven years?
On her fiftieth birthday, Lorrie Ellsworth makes the same wish she’s made every year since 1985.
Let me do it over.
Then she wakes up in 1984, twenty-three years old again, with thirteen days until the night that changed everything. Thirteen days until Paul Ellsworth is supposed to propose. Thirteen days until Lorrie is supposed to say yes. And thirteen days to find out whether Dean Wyatt, the record-store owner she never quite forgot, really was the love of her life.
Suddenly Lorrie has everything she thought she wanted. Her youth, her parents alive again, Side A Records, and Dean looking at her the way she spent nearly three decades remembering.
But 1984 isn’t exactly the way nostalgia preserved it. Paul has secrets. So does his family. Dean has dreams that might take him far from Madison. And as Lorrie’s memories of the future begin to fade, the children she loves more than anything become harder and harder to hold on to.
She came back believing she’d made the wrong choice. Now she has thirteen days to decide whether the greatest regret of her life was choosing the wrong man... or never truly choosing for herself at all.
A nostalgic, emotional time-slip romance about first loves, second chances, the lives we almost lived, and what we’d risk for the chance to choose again.
What if you could go back—not to fix your life, but to fight for the love you walked away from?
On Valentine’s Day, Maggie Shaw is fifty years old, successful, and alone. Twenty-seven years ago, she made the safe choice. She left a man who loved her. And spent a lifetime wondering what might have been.
Then she wakes up in 1987.
The music is loud. The coffee is terrible. Phones have cords, and when they ring, you answer without knowing who’s on the other end.
Maggie is twenty-three again, living in a world of mixtapes, newspaper deadlines, shoulder pads, and waiting by the phone.
And Jack Cavanaugh is still there. Brilliant, stubborn, heartbreakingly real.
She has thirteen days until Valentine’s Day. Thirteen days before the dinner where she once walked away and broke his heart.
But this time, Jack is done chasing. He’s learning to let go.
To change the past, she’ll have to do what she never could before:
Stay when it’s easier to run
Speak without hiding behind sarcasm
Love without a backup plan
Because going back comes with a price.
Stay, and lose the future she already lived.
Leave, and lose the one man she never stopped loving.
Thirteen days. One Valentine’s deadline. One chance to choose differently—before the song ends and the moment is gone.
A closed-door 80s time travel romance about regret, courage, mixtapes, missed calls, and discovering that the life you were meant for was always one brave choice away.
Coming in November