Complete story — includes the ending
Lawyer Jane Bingum gets shot by a cuckolded man aiming for her boss, Parker. Deb Dobkins, a slim model, dies in a car crash and enters the afterlife. Fred, her angelic interviewer, tells her she never did anything of moral significance. Incensed, Deb presses the "return" key on Fred's keyboard, sending her back to Earth just as Jane dies in the hospital. Deb wakes up in Jane's heavyset body and must live the other woman's life, possessing Jane's intelligence and legal knowledge—but not her memories. Jane convinces Deb's best friend Stacy of her identity and becomes her roommate. After Jane's assistant Teri affirms that Jane is a good person, she decides to use her new life to make a difference. Using Deb's knowledge, she makes over her timid client, giving her the confidence to secure a fair divorce settlement from her philandering husband. Despite sabotage by her scheming coworker, Kim, Jane earns another client a large judgment against the pharmaceutical company responsible for his wife's death. Deb's grieving boyfriend, Grayson Kent, is Jane's law firm's newest hire. Fred, as punishment for Deb's unauthorized return, is demoted to serve as Jane's guardian angel while working as the firm's courier.
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