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.
"Engaging, Funny, Romantic & Harrowing" ~Publishers Weekly ¿¿ Starred Review
After reconnecting with the one-that-got-away-and then losing him in a pandemic-middle-aged Iz struggles to survive alone in a remote mountain cabin. As despair sets in, she finds hope in caring for abandoned pets-until a man appears and offers her a one-way trip to the past.
With humanity teetering on the edge, she gives up everything in an attempt to alter the dystopian present-and see her missing lover one last time.
As the clock runs out, she's whisked into a coffin-like capsule. (A neural net insists she's humankind's best hope. No one knows why.) Unknown to her, the time machine has been activated once before-with deadly results.
She awakens on a pristine beach, suffering radiation-like side-effects but 20 years younger! With only hours to live, she must persuade our young hero to modify their future relationship and thereby set off a chain of events that will prevent the pandemic.
He falls hard for her (what guy could resist a smart, middle-aged woman in a newly acquired vixen's body?) until she blurts out that she's from the future and there to "fix" him.
Turns out, it's not him that needs fixing; it's her-and it's far too late for that.
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 profanity, 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.
