Oona lives one year at a time—in no particular order.
New Year’s Eve, Brooklyn, 1982. Oona Lockhart is about to turn 19 and torn between two golden opportunities: a promising tour with the band she and her boyfriend play in or a year studying abroad at a prestigious business school. When the clock strikes midnight, she’s robbed of both choices. Instead, she’s transported to 2015, still in her own body—mentally 19, but physically 51. Oona comes to learn she has a time sickness: every year, she leaps into a different point on her adult timeline. Never knowing who she’ll end up being each year— philanthropist, club kid, world traveler, wife to a man she’s never met—she struggles to embrace her identity, live in the present, and find meaning in a chaotic life.
At first, Oona makes the most of being chronologically challenged. But before long, she grows tired of feeling like an imposter who accepts the destiny laid out for her. She attempts to alter her future—and fails miserably. So she resigns herself to make peace with her ever-shifting present. Until she unearths a startling family secret that drives her to tempt fate once more so she can unite her family and solidify an identity for herself. Oona only has one chance at getting each year right, so she’ll need to decide how much to meddle with fate, knowing she’s gambling with the future happiness of everyone she loves.
Oona Out of Order is standalone upmarket fiction with series potential, complete at 105,000 words.