Once And Again - By Rebecca Serle, 1 Each, $20.24
The women of the Novak family were each born with a gift: they can turn back time.Lauren has known since she was fifteen that her mother Marcella saved Laurens father from a deadly car accident. Dave is alive and happy. Ever since, Marcella, her power spent, has lived in fear of what she wont be able to reverse. Her own mother, Sylvia, is her polar opposite: a free-spirited iconoclast with a glamorous past. Lauren has spent her life between these two role modelsand waiting for her own catastrophe to strike.Then one summer, Laurens husband takes a job in New York and she moves back to Broad Beach Road, back into her childhood home on the shores of Malibu. Lauren looks forward to surfing with her dad again and repairing an unspoken fracture in her relationship with her mother. What she doesnt expect is for the boy next to door to return home as well: Stone, Laurens first love, who broke her heart 10 years before.Lauren finds herself thinking about all the choices, large and small, that have brought her to this moment. And wondering, finally, if one of them should be undone.





























