If You Had Chosen Me - Paperback

by Machaela Jackson (Author)

A novel of eternal love, fractured timelines, and the question that follows us through every life: what if?

Spanning centuries and civilizations, If You Had Chosen Me is a sweeping, time-bending love story about two souls bound across lifetimes; forever drawn together, forever torn apart.

In ancient Rome, Epidia is a Senator's daughter who is forced to betray her gladiator lover to protect their child. In Egypt, Nefret is a sacred scribe sworn to a lifetime of obedience, falling for a man whose death is written in the stars. In 17th-century England, a noblewoman and a soldier risk treason for a love the world calls forbidden. In the jazz-drenched nights of 1920s Newark, a singer and a bootlegger cling to each other even as secrets smolder between them.

And in the present day, a woman named Jovie Prince wakes from dreams that aren't hers, haunted by memories of lives she never lived, and a man she's never met... but has always loved.

Each life is a thread.

Each death, a knot.

Each reunion, a question:

If you had chosen me, would everything be different?

Told in stunning prose across five richly rendered timelines, If You Had Chosen Me is a genre-defying debut about love that transcends death, choice, and time itself.