All the women in June's family are doomed to madness, so she steels herself to end the curse by never marrying or bearing children. Then a posthumous message from her grandmother sets her off on an impossible journey.
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The Unmaking of June Farrow
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- Successful playwright Richard becomes enamored of the actress Elise. The only issue is, she's in 1912 and he's in 1980. A few decades of separation cannot thwart true love.
- A group of history students are sent into the past on a rescue mission. But 1357 France is a dangerous place, and soon they are in need of rescuing themselves.
- Clare meets Henry when she is six and he is thirty-six, then marries him sixteen years later when he's thirty. His uncontrollable time traveling causes grave complications for both of them.
- An ancient standing stone pulls Claire from 1945 to 1743, where she falls for the strapping Scottish warrior Jamie (despite already being married). The tumultuous period puts them both in grave jeopardy.
- A twenty-first century scientist invents time travel and goes to visit an ancestor, Leopold, in 1876. He never expects Leopold to follow him back to the present, and certainly not to fall in love with his ex, Kate.
- Sent back to 1882 by a government experiment, Si falls in love with both the bygone New York City and the lovely Julia.
- Red and Blue are the top agents on opposite sides of a temporal war to determine the course of history. Their vicious clashes slowly grow into something very different.
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Mitsuha, a rural high school student, and Taki, a boy from Tokyo start to inexplicably swap bodies. And that's just the start of the weirdness. A comet is involved.- Cynical August is not disposed to find magic or wonder in any part of life in NYC, certainly not the drudgery of her subway commute. Then the dazzling Jane rocks her world. The only problem is, Jane is displaced from 1970 and kind of needs to get…
- Xanthe has a gift: with a touch, she can discern the history of an object, a very handy skill in an antique shop. A silver chatelaine transports her to 1605, where she has to fix an old injustice. A local architect is very helpful, unless he ends up…
- Saoirse's fiancé Jack's family and ancestral home are equally cold. While wandering the wild grounds, she slips back to 1818 and meets Theo, an ancestor of Jack's who is warm and charming in all the ways her fiancé is not.
- Single mother Lux finds refuge in Greengage, a tiny village surrounded by fog and trapped in 1906. Eventually, though, she will have to choose between modern life with her son and her growing love of a simpler time and a man born decades ago.
- In order to pay for the cure for the virus infecting her boyfriend Frank, Polly agrees to travel to the future to work as an indentured laborer. But TimeRaiser sends her to 1998, not 1993, where there is no Frank to be found and society is changed…
- Neurosurgeon Beatrice travels to Tuscany to settle her brother's estate and becomes immersed in his research into 1347 Siena. So much so that she slips back to the fourteenth century, where she falls for a local painter, Gabriele, just as the plague…
- Joe is an amnesiac in an alternate 1898 London who receives a 90-year-old postcard that hints at his previous life. Any more description would be a spoiler.
- Archeologist Isabel Griffin has moved on from the disappearance of her boyfriend Max eight years ago, little suspecting that he is trapped in 1816 Barbados. Their daughter may be his best hope of returning back to his own time. The clock is ticking,…
- While visiting Paris with his fiancée, Gil stumbles across a taxi that will take him to the 1920s if he travels at midnight. He visits the past repeatedly, falling for the luminaries of the era and the model Adriana.
- Lisbeth is a twenty-first century doctor who falls through a hole in time at her father's archeological dig and lands in third century Carthage. She's rescued from the slave market by Cyprian, whose faith tells him the save the strange woman despite…
- FBI agent Kendra Donovan is on the trail of a suspect at a nineteenth-century themed ball when she somehow slips into 1815. The past is in desperate need of her services, since a killer is on the loose. Kendra acquires a surprisingly modern duke as…
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