You & Me and You & Me and You & Me

Husband and wife coauthors Lloyd (Miss Beeton’s Murder Agency) and Rees (Wanted) deliver a stunning time travel romance that doubles as an insightful examination of the little decisions that shape a 25-year marriage. Caterer Jules Hole and her video game designer husband, Adam, are stuck. Their two 20-something kids have moved back into their messy home; Jules’s business is hemorrhaging money; and Adam’s career stalled long ago, when he went part-time to help raise the kids and his short-term financial concerns kept him from striking it big with his best friend Darius. All that changes when Adam discovers that playing the romantic mixtapes he and Jules used to make for each other sends the listener back to the time they first received them­—and that changing things during these tape visits can lead to better lives in the present. The couple’s success in fixing minor things (like a regrettable tattoo for Jules, or Adam’s beard, which Jules always hated) lead them to attempt bigger and bigger manipulations—with potentially devastating consequences. Both protagonists are wonderfully complex, full of rage, regret, passion (often the frustrated kind), and a desperate desire to get things right this time. Funny, tender, bittersweet, and ultimately affirming, this is a showstopping tale about learning to embrace imperfection. Agent: Meredith Miller, UTA. (Feb.)