Mara was supposed to be temporary. Then she built a life people would miss.
Julian Malloy loses his software job. Mara Benton gets the contract that might keep him afloat.
They are the same person.
An antique ring transforms Julian into Mara, and for a year he has kept her safely contained behind a webcam, schedules, and backup clothes. Then Mara’s contract requires her in the office.
Soon she has coworkers who text her, friends who expect her to show up, and a life Julian can no longer dismiss as temporary. Only Sophie, his increasingly exhausted younger sister, knows the truth. When Eli Ortiz, Julian’s closest friend, takes a desk nearby, Mara must pretend not to know him nearly as well as she does.
Julian thought he was managing a magical problem. Instead, another version of his life is becoming real, and every ordinary day makes the truth harder to contain.
How long can Julian keep Mara hidden when she is becoming the person everyone knows?
You Would Like Her begins an ongoing adult queer contemporary-fantasy series about identity, friendship, desire, and becoming visible. Contains frank sexual content.
