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Twice in a Lifetime

A Novel

by Melissa Baron
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The Time Traveler's Wife meets Oona Out of Order in this mind-bending, debut time travel romance about a love more powerful than space and time.
Isla has fled the city for small-town Missouri in the wake of a painful and exhausting year. With her chronic anxiety at a fever pitch, the last thing she expects is to meet a genuine romantic prospect. And she doesn’t. But she does get a text from a man who seems to think he’s her husband. Obviously, a wrong number—except when she points this out, the mystery texter sends back a picture. Of them—on their wedding day.
Isla cautiously starts up a texting relationship with her maybe-hoax, maybe-husband Ewan, who claims to be reaching out from a few years into the future. Ewan knows Isla incredibly well, and seems to love her exactly as she is, which she can hardly fathom. But he’s also grieving, because in the future, he and Isla are no longer together.
Ewan is texting back through time to save her from a fate he is unwilling to share—and all she can do to prevent that fate is to learn to be happy, now, in the body she has, with the mind she has. The only trouble is the steps she takes in that direction might be steps away from a future with Ewan.
Melissa Baron’s time-crossed romance features a quintessentially endearing and brave protagonist, and an engrossing plot that will keep you turning pages until its breathtaking finish.

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    December 6, 2022

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      • ISBN: 9781639101375

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      • ISBN: 9781639101375
      • File size: 1185 KB

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    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      October 1, 2022

      DEBUT In this blending of speculative fiction and romance, Isla is navigating ongoing mental health struggles and has experienced significant loss. When she is contacted by what she assumes is a wrong number from a man named Ewan, she learns he is her husband in the future. Something happened, and now she is no longer with him. He doesn't want to disrupt the timeline too much, but he starts to encourage her to do things to help her present self, even if that might prevent their meeting. As a new timeline forms, Isla has to find a way to forge the relationship she wants with Ewan without his future self's help. Isla works towards that, while also learning the repercussions of her choices. Baron offers readers enjoyable pacing and characterizations and brings the time travel plot back at the end with a twist. VERDICT Baron's novel has aspects of speculative fiction but is grounded in reality. A good fit for readers interested in exploring a character's inner life, dusted with a light amount of sci-fi.--Sydney Ashby

      Copyright 2022 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from October 24, 2022
      Baron explores parallel realities in her heart-wrenching debut romance. After overworked Chicago graphic designer Isla Abbott has a breakdown following her mother’s death, she decides to relocate to a bungalow just outside of St. Louis, hoping for a fresh start. There she starts receiving mysterious texts from a man named Ewan Park, who claims to be her husband from the future reaching back in time to prevent her eventual death by suicide. Though at first skeptical, Isla comes to believe Ewan and hopes to avoid her original fate by changing the circumstances of her first meeting with Ewan in the present, thus setting them on a different trajectory. It works, and for a time, Isla and Ewan thrive—Ewan expertly supports Isla through her frequent panic attacks, and the pair quickly fall in love. But they can’t avoid the apparently fated accident that is the long-term decider, one way or another, of whether Isla and Ewan get their happily ever after. The aching regret of what might be shines through each alternate reality as this couple fights for each other, and a series of shocking twists at the end will steal readers’ breath one scene after another. The captivating characters, skillful plotting, and sensitive handling of mental illness make this a knockout.

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