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Natalie Messier
Every Version of You
Synopsis
An INSTANT USA TODAY Bestseller! For fans of The Love of My Afterlife and The Seven Year Slip, Reese’s Book Club LitUp Fellow Natalie Messier’s heartfelt contemporary romance debut follows a woman who gets a second chance at a formative time in her adult life—this time to win the “one that got away.”Joey Vasquez’s life is the definition of good on paper. At thirty-two, she’s a lawyer on the cusp of making partner, she owns her house in Los Angeles, and she almost keeps pace with her doctor sister in her parents’ eyes. When she reluctantly arrives at the very couple-y dinner party hosted by Elijah Aarons, the best friend she’s secretly pined after for fourteen years, she’s dismayed to find that the last person on earth she’d ever want to see again is also there: Alex Aquino. Your basic rich Silicon Beach bro asshole. The night couldn’t possibly get worse—and then she dies. When Joey is given a second chance at life, she finds herself eighteen again, the year she first met both Elijah and Alex. 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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Genres
Characters
Joey VasquezProtagonist
A Los Angeles corporate lawyer who dies at thirty-two and wakes back in her eighteen-year-old body with all her adult memories intact.
Elijah AaronsSupporting
Joey's college best friend and the man she has secretly loved for fourteen years, already married by the time she first returns to relive her past.
Alex AquinoSupporting
A wealthy acquaintance from Joey's first life whom she initially can't stand but finds herself unexpectedly drawn to the second time around.
Cat (Every Version of You)Supporting
Elijah's wife, expecting their first child when Joey first learns the truth about the man she has always loved.
Frequently asked questions
What age does Joey go back to in Every Version of You?
After she dies at thirty-two, Joey wakes up back in her eighteen-year-old body, the year she first met both Elijah and Alex, with all her adult memories intact.
Is Every Version of You a love triangle romance?
Yes. During her second chance, Joey is torn between Elijah, the best friend she has secretly loved for fourteen years, and Alex, a man she initially can't stand but finds herself unexpectedly drawn to.
Is Every Version of You science fiction or fantasy?
No — it's shelved as contemporary romance with a magical-realism premise. After a fatal accident, Joey is given the chance to return to her college years with her adult-life memories intact, but the book stays grounded in relationships and choices rather than building out a speculative world.