Time Struck

In this speculative mystery with a romantic twist, one woman must solve her own murder five years in the future, only to find herself unexpectedly falling in love with her future self’s husband

Andy Harlow might be close to getting her PhD in physics, but she’s far from escaping her troubled past. It doesn’t help when her estranged sister returns to assist in selling their decaying childhood home—the same place their mother was murdered by their father twenty years earlier.

One night, after investigating a mysterious sound in her parents' sealed off bedroom, Andy is shoved into the closet by a stranger.

She lands five years in the future, where everything has changed. Here, Andy has a dream job as a professor. A sister who has mended the broken bond between them. A baby daughter she loves the way only a mother can. And a husband, Logan, a man she has never met, yet who seems to know every corner of her heart. It’s a life she never imagined she could have—until now.

There’s just one problem. In this future, Andy was recently murdered. And someone pushed her here so she could find out who did it and why.

To change her fate, Andy must solve the mystery of her death and uncover long-buried family secrets before returning to her time. But with every moment she spends in this future, she falls deeper and deeper in love with Logan, their daughter, and the home they've built together. Ultimately, Andy must decide if she’s willing to let go of the life she’d always dreamed of to save the one she left behind. The future holds all that she’s been missing—but staying could cost her everything.

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