The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston is a beautifully written blend of romance, magical realism, and emotional contemporary fiction, exploring grief, healing, and the kind of love that transcends time. Clementine West has built her life around careful planning after heartbreak changed everything. As an overworked book publicist, she keeps her future structured and her heart guarded—following a simple plan: work hard, stay practical, and don’t fall too deeply.
But when she moves into her late aunt’s apartment—a place rumored to be a “pinch in time”—Clementine meets a charming stranger in her kitchen. With kind eyes, a Southern drawl, and a love for lemon pies, he’s everything she once would have dreamed of. There’s just one impossible problem: he lives seven years in the past, while she lives in his future.
As their lives overlap across time, Clementine must confront her fear of loss and the risks of loving someone she may never truly have. Tender, whimsical, and deeply heartfelt, The Seven Year Slip is a story about fate, timing, and learning that life—and love—can’t always be planned.
Perfect for fans of time-slip romance, magical realism love stories, emotional healing fiction, bookish heroines, and slow-burn contemporary romance, this novel is both enchanting and profoundly moving.
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