First published 2011
H.G. Wells receives an urgent summons to investigate strange reports of actual time travel. The skeptical author finds himself drawn into a web of three connected cases where tampering with history threatens to erase beloved works from existence. Dracula and The Time Machine hang in the balance as Wells navigates between real historical figures and fictional characters who have somehow crossed into reality. Each investigation reveals new layers of temporal manipulation, forcing Wells to question everything he thought he knew about time and possibility. The cases interweave in unexpected ways, pulling Wells deeper into a mystery where literature itself becomes a battleground. As the stakes rise, Wells must use his scientific mind and writerly instincts to preserve not just individual lives but the very stories that define human imagination.
Genres: science-fiction, historical-fiction, 20th-century, mystery, 19th-century, alternate-history
Vibes: atmospheric, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: alternate-universe, literary-fiction
Period: 19th-century, 20th-century
613 pages · Hardcover · Atria Books