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Once in a Timeline

By Iman Hariri-Kia
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For fans of The Love of My Afterlife and Ashley Poston comes a clever and swoony novel following an aspiring New York lifestyle influencer who gets trapped in her own "day in the life" video and the mysterious stranger who must help break them both out... Read More
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For fans of The Love of My Afterlife and Ashley Poston comes a clever and swoony novel following an aspiring New York lifestyle influencer who gets trapped in her own "day in the life" video and the mysterious stranger who must help break them both out before they're lost in the algorithm for good.

For fans of Ashley Poston and The Love of My Afterlife comes a clever and swoony novel about an aspiring New York lifestyle influencer who gets trapped in her own "day in the life" video, with only a mysterious stranger to help her break out.

Get ready with me... to break out of the algorithm.

Laia Grace is the New York City lifestyle influencer... or at least, she's determined to be. After leaving her past behind to pursue her dreams, failure is not an option.

Every day, she films her aesthetic routine - the perfect light, the perfect latte, the perfect life. Until one morning, her day starts to... glitch. Her neighbours flicker. Her best friend loops. And Laia realises she's no longer the creator, but the content - and she's trapped inside of her last "day in the life" video, forever playing on an endless, infinite loop.

That's when a brooding, unshaven, decidedly unfiltered man (literally) crashes into frame. Noah's been stuck in Laia's timeline, too, and he's desperate to get them both out. Together, Laia and Noah fight to outsmart the algorithm that's captured them, uncovering secrets and confronting biases along the way.

As they grow closer, the line between performance and personhood blurs, and Laia realises she might have to face the one thing she's been avoiding all this time: herself.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781464298479

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 13 October 2026

Country: United States

Imprint: Cosmo Reads

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 300g

Pages: 320

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Contemporary Romance Fantasy Fiction General Fiction Humour Iman Hariri-Kia Romance Sci-Fi & Fantasy

About the Author

Iman Hariri-Kia is a writer and editor born and based in New York City. A nationally acclaimed journalist, she covers sex, relationships, identity, and adolescence. You can often find her writing about her personal life on the internet, much to her parents' dismay.

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