A new young adult novel from Mikki Daughtry is coming in 2025, People magazine reports.
Penguin Teen will publish the author and screenwriter’s Time After Time next spring. The press describes the book as “an epic YA sapphic romance, unfolding over two sets of lives, one hundred years apart.”
Daughtry is the co-author of two previous young adult novels: Five Feet Apart, written with Rachael Lippincott and Tobias Iaconis, and All This Time, written with Lippincott.
Her new novel will follow Libby, a 19-year-old woman who buys a house, and discovers in it a century-old journal written by Elizabeth, a woman who was in love with her maid. Libby then begins to fall for another young woman, and begins to see parallels between their relationship and the one between Elizabeth and her maid.
Daughtry announced news of the book on Instagram, writing, “So… I did a thing. I’m so excited for this. Five Feet Apart was some of my heart. All This Time was more of my heart. Time After Time IS my heart. The whole thing. Unfiltered. Just me. I can’t wait for you to meet Libby and Tish, and Elizabeth and Patricia. I hope you love them as much as I do.”
Time After Time is scheduled for publication on May 20, 2025.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
