Once and Again

Can You Ever Truly Go Home Again?

If you could turn back time—just once—to fix your biggest mistake, would you do it? That is the heart-wrenching question at the center of Rebecca Serle’s latest magical masterpiece, Once and Again.

The women of the Novak family possess a rare and heavy gift: the ability to reverse time exactly once in their lives. Lauren has grown up in the shadow of this power, watching her mother, Marcella, live in perpetual fear after using her "one time" to save Lauren’s father from a fatal accident. On the other hand, there is Lauren’s grandmother, Sylvia, a glamorous iconoclast who seems to have no regrets at all.

When Lauren moves back to her childhood home in Malibu for the summer, she expects to spend her days surfing and reconnecting with her family. What she doesn’t expect is for Stone, her first love and the man who shattered her heart a decade ago, to walk back into her life.

As the sun sets over Broad Beach Road, Lauren finds herself caught between the life she built and the "what ifs" of the past. Once and Again is a stunning exploration of fate, the complexity of mother-daughter bonds, and the bittersweet realization that sometimes the choices we make are exactly what lead us where we need to be—even if we have the power to undo them.