❝ Maybe I’m worried over nothing, and everything will work out in the end.

Or maybe life is messy, and nothing ever works out as neatly as we’d like.

Maybe there’s always someone standing on the sidelines, silently suffering through heartbreak, even if you don’t notice them.❞

❝ Just because they are there before doesn’t mean they need to be there this time. It’s hard to write a new story when it’s populated by all the same characters.❞

❝ Say it’s not the last time.❞

For fans of The Love of My Afterlife and The Seven Year Slip, Reese’s LitUp Fellow Natalie Messier’s debut following a woman who gets a chance to relive her college years—with the opportunity to win back the one that got away—is “full of surprises and sneakily perceptive” (Yulin Kuang, USA TODAY bestselling author of How to End a Love Story).

Joey Vasquez’s life is the definition of good on paper. At thirty-two, she’s a Los Angeles lawyer on the cusp of making partner, but while she’s a professional success, she’s a personal disaster. Her social life mostly consists of nights spent watching TV with her elderly cat. Life isn’t quite what she dreamed when she was younger, but really, whose life is?

But a dinner party with the best friend she’s secretly pined after for years and its aftermath changes everything.

When Joey is given a second chance at life, she finds herself in college again. Armed with memories from her first life, Joey is certain she’s come back to finally convince the one man she ever loved to love her back—so why does she find herself strangely drawn to the man she thought she hated?

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