If I Could Turn Back Time

From the New York Times–bestselling author: What if your thirty-something self woke up in your eighteen-year-old body?

Thirty-seven-year-old Ramie Phillips has led a very successful life. She made her fortune, and now she hob nobs with the very rich and occasionally the semi-famous. She enjoys luxuries she only dreamed of as a middle-class kid growing up in Potomac, Maryland. But despite it all, she can’t ignore the fact that she isn’t necessarily happy. In fact, lately Ramie has begun to feel more than a little empty.

On a boat with friends off the Florida coast, she tries to fight her feelings of discontent with steel will and champagne. No one even notices as she gets up and goes to the diving board and dives off . . .

Suddenly, Ramie is waking up, straining to understand a voice calling in the distance . . . It’s her mother: “Wake up! You’re going to be late for school again. I’m not writing a note this time . . .”

Ramie finds herself back in time to the eve of her eighteenth birthday, with a second chance to see the people she’s lost and change the choices she regrets. How did she get back here? Has she gone off the deep end? Has she really gone back in time? Above all, she’ll have to answer the question that no one else can: What is it that she really wants from the past, and for her future?

“Reader favorite Harbison infuses the story with wit and heart . . . both lighthearted and poignant.” —Booklist