Desperate to avoid the future she saw, Dannie reacts hastily: She is initially disapproving of Aaron, discourages her best friend, Bella, from buying the apartment she saw in her premonition, and rushes to set a date for the wedding she’s been putting off for over four years.ĭavid, Dannie’s fiancé, is happy about the wedding but cautious after the many times Dannie has changed the date or backed out of planning. There is a new complication, however: The man is her best friend’s new boyfriend, Aaron Gregory. When the same man appears in her life four and a half years later, she is confronted with the truth of the future she saw. Its impact is evident, however, in her repeated delays in planning and holding a wedding. The intensity of the feeling she experiences with this man unsettles her, and she puts it out of her mind. On the night of her engagement, she experiences a brief period of time that will occur exactly five years in the future in it, her life is completely unrecognizable, from the apartment she lives in to the man she is with. She lives her life by a set of guidelines that she believes guide a person towards the right kind of life. After her brother’s death in a car accident when she was 12, Dannie developed a need for control, discipline, and preparation. Dannie Kohan is a corporate lawyer with a fiancé, a sparkling best friend, and a job she loves.

In 5 years by rebecca serle