First published 2024
In a near-future world, a civil servant is recruited by a secretive government ministry to monitor a time-traveling "expat" from 1845. As she acclimates the disoriented explorer to modern life, an unexpected bond forms. But when the ministry's true purpose is revealed, she must confront how far she'll go to rewrite history and secure her own future.
Genres: science-fiction, adventure, 21st-century, alternate-history
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: fish-out-of-water, unexpected-bond
Period: 1845, near-future
339 pages · Hardcover · Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster