In five years

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Dannie Kohan has built her life around plans precise enough to measure: a successful legal career, a carefully chosen Manhattan home, and marriage to her dependable boyfriend, David. On the night she accepts his proposal, she falls asleep and awakens exactly five years later in an unfamiliar apartment beside another man. One hour later she returns to the present, dismissing the experience as an impossible dream. Then, as the foretold date approaches, Dannie meets the stranger again through Bella, the exuberant best friend whose life resists every timetable. The encounter threatens Dannie’s confidence in the future she designed, but the novel’s deepest pressure falls on friendship, love, and the limits of treating life as a schedule.

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