The past isn't over, it's an opening. The future isn't hidden, it's a trap.
If she ever wants to see him again, she'll have to take the risk.
Publishers Weekly Starred Review: "Funny, Romantic & Harrowing!"
After reconnecting with the one-that-got-away—and then losing him in a pandemic—Iz struggles to survive alone in a remote mountain cabin. As loneliness and despair set in, she starts taking in abandoned pets—until an ill-equipped, clean-shaven man knocks on her door and offers her a one-way trip to the past. With humanity teetering on the edge, she sacrifices everything, including her beloved pets, in an attempt to alter the dystopian present—and see her lover one last time.
She's rushed into a hastily built time machine...
...and awakens on a tropical beach, buck naked—and suffering from side-effects—but 20 years younger!
With only hours to live, she must persuade her future lover to fix their relationship and thereby set off a chain of events that will erase the pandemic—no one is quite sure how.
Our young hero falls hard for her—a middle-aged woman in a vixen's body—until she blurts out that she's from the future and came to "improve" him.
Turns out, it's not him that needs fixing, it's her—and it's far too late for that.
Across the infinite expanse of space and time, love endures...
(Unfortunately, it's not going to be enough.)
Content Warning!
This book contains material that may be disturbing to some and, in movie form, would be rated NC-17 for strong language, nudity, sexual situations, and violence. It includes attempted sexual assault, abduction, intense physical danger, miscarriage, confinement, a pandemic, religious fanaticism (Christian), government incompetence bordering on malice, mistreated animals, gun violence, near drowning, and (human) death.
