Product Description For fans of One Day, What Alice Forgot, and the hit film Sliding Doors comes an absorbing, surprising debut novel about a young woman who, after an accident, get a second chance at life, just not the one he remembers.Rachel Wiltshire has everything she's ever wanted: a close group of friends, a handsome boyfriend, and acceptance to the journalism program at a top-choice college. But one fateful evening, tragedy tears her world apart.   Five years later, Rachel returns home for the first time to celebrate her best friend's wedding. Still coping with grief, she can't stop thinking about the bright future she almost had, if only that one night had gone differently. But when a sudden fall lands her in the hospital, Rachel wakes to find that her life has completely changed. Now she has her dream job as a writer and a stylish apartment, but the people she loves most are not the way she remembers them. Unable to trust her own recollections, Rachel tries to piece together what really happened, and not even she can predict the astonishing truth.  Review "Clear your schedule for an addicting read. Then and Always is a twisty, romantic, keep-you-guessing story about the kind of love you never forget." - Deb Calletti, National Book Award finalist":A beautiful, mesmerizing, and haunting novel." - Woman's World"Gripping, romantic, and heartbreaking... a magical love story." - She Loves to Read"A book that warmed my heart and intrigued my mind." - Love of a Good Book About the Author DANI ATKINS lives with her family in a small village in Hertfordshire with two elderly cats and one very excitable border collie. Then and Always is her first novel.  Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. 1September 2008Long after the screaming had stopped, when the only sound to be heard was the soft crying of my friends as they waited for the ambulance to arrive, I realized that I was still clutching the lucky penny tightly within my palm. My fingers refused to unfurl from around the tiny copper talisman, as though by sheer will alone I would somehow be able to wind back time and erase the tragedy around me.Was it really only half an hour earlier that Jimmy had picked up the glinting coin from the restaurant’s tarmacked car park?“For luck,” he had said with a grin, tossing the coin up in the air and deftly catching it with one hand.I smiled back and then saw the flicker of irritation flash through his pale blue eyes as Matt quipped, “Jimmy, mate, you should’ve said if you’re a little short of cash, no need to go groveling about on the ground for money!”Matt had laughed then, and thrown his arm around my shoulder, pulling me close to his side. I thought the darkening expression on Jimmy’s face was a natural reaction to Matt’s unnecessary comment, which highlighted the differences between their backgrounds. And maybe that was part of it. But it wasn’t all of it. There was more . . . though of course I didn’t understand that for a long time.The three of us were standing in the fading sunlight of a warm September evening, waiting for the rest of our group to arrive. Jimmy had already been in the car park when Matt and I had driven in. Matt had made quite a show of circling the empty spaces, looking for just the right spot to park his new acquisition. I guess he was still in that strange honeymoon phase boys have when they’re really in love with their cars. I just hoped he’d have the good sense not to gloat about it too much in front of the rest of the group.The new car was shiny, sporty, and expensive. That’s as much as I know about cars. He’d been given it by his parents when the exam results had come out. That alone should tell you enough about Matt’s family to understand why comments about money sometimes hit a raw nerve with the rest of us. For the most part, Matt was fairly considerate and didn’t rub it in too much. But the odd glib remark occasionally sli