Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston

A tender, magical-realism romance about grief, second chances, and the strange ways love finds you when you’re just trying to survive the worst day of your life. The Seven Year Slip has cozy NYC-apartment charm with an emotional core—sweet, wistful, and quietly devastating in the way it sneaks up on you.

Clementine is following a plan: work hard, find someone decent to love, and remember to “chase the moon,” the big-dream mantra her aunt always believed every heart needs. For the past year, she’s managed… mostly. She’s careful with the love part, not sure she could survive another fall.

Then a stranger appears in the kitchen of her late aunt’s apartment—kind eyes, a Southern drawl, and a weakness for lemon pie. The kind of man she would’ve fallen for before everything changed. And maybe she still could… except he exists seven years in the past, while Clementine lives seven years ahead. The apartment is a pinch in time, where moments blur—and if she lets herself love him, the consequences could break her.

Because love isn’t about time—it’s about timing.