Five Days Back: A Time-Loop Second Chance Romance

Five days. One inevitable death. And the one man she swore she'd never need again. Mara Ellison returns to Hearthstone Bay, Oregon, bracing for a week she's dreaded for seven years. Then she wakes up on Monday morning—and Monday won't let her go. The same day. The same conversations. The same warnings she can't un-hear. And at the end of the week, a "surge" kills an innocent man, setting off a chain reaction that lets a powerful corporation swoop in, seize control, and rewrite the town's future. Only this time, Mara sees the pattern. Each reset gives her another shot to change what's coming—until she realizes the loop isn't an accident. Someone is engineering it. The evidence shifts, the cameras lie, and every time Mara gets close to the truth, the conspiracy adapts like it's learning her moves. The only person who might help her stop it is Cal Mercer, the brilliant engineer at the center of the storm…and the man Mara left behind seven years ago. Cal doesn't owe her trust, time, or forgiveness. But when the week keeps snapping back and the danger starts stalking the people Mara loves, "past" becomes a luxury they can't afford. With the clock ticking toward the same fatal moment, Mara and Cal race through locked doors, buried records, and silent threats—pushing their bodies to the breaking point as the loop fights to keep its outcome intact. And when the people behind the surge raise the stakes by targeting someone Mara can't lose, Mara is forced to make a choice no reset can erase. Because breaking time won't just cost her the truth. It might cost her Cal all over again. FIVE DAYS BACK is a propulsive time-loop romantic thriller packed with high-stakes suspense, second-chance heat, and a relentless countdown where every chapter ends closer to disaster—and every choice matters.