First published 2014
Leo Nolan stares at impossible letters arriving at his family home. The postmarks read 1934. The sender is his uncle Jack, who disappeared five decades earlier. Just weeks before her death in March 1984, Leo's mother showed him a rose she claimed Jack had given her. Now Jack's letters keep coming, the final one bearing an Ashland, Kentucky return address. Leo drives to Ashland to solve the mystery of these letters and discover why they surface now, after fifty years of silence. In Ashland, time fractures around him. Leo finds himself experiencing 1934 directly, walking through the Great Depression as it unfolds. He encounters the ghosts that still move through this Kentucky town, where dreams collapse and resurrect themselves. The investigation becomes something larger than Leo expected, pulling him into a world where past and present collide.
Genres: historical-fiction, 20th-century, mystery, time-travel, alternate-history, family-drama
Vibes: atmospheric, emotional, suspenseful
Tropes: fish-out-of-water, time-travel
Setting: Ashland, Kentucky
Period: 1934, 1984
180 pages · Kindle Edition · Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy