The Year
That Wasn't
Hers

About the Book

A mystery wrapped in
longing and time.

Academic librarian Cecily Bishop came to Wales for a quiet sabbatical: a historic library, a few weeks of research, and enough distance to recover from the life she left behind.

Then she opens a door in a ruined castle and steps into 1938.

The world she finds is dazzling, dangerous, and already sliding toward war. Aristocrats raise glasses while fascism spreads through drawing rooms and dinner tables. Men with money and influence whisper about power, loyalty, and the future they intend to build. Ceci knows where this road leads. She also knows no one will believe her.

The real danger begins with Duncan Carlton and Archie Booker. Duncan is controlled, powerful, and impossible to read — a man trained to bury every dangerous feeling beneath duty and restraint. Archie is all charm, wit, and old wounds, beautiful enough to break hearts and reckless enough to risk his own. The two men are already bound by history, loyalty, and a desire neither of them has dared to name.

Ceci should be a stranger in their world. Instead, she becomes the woman who sees the danger coming — and the woman they both want too much to let go.

But someone else knows about the door. Someone else is changing the past. And as the future twists into something darker than the history Ceci remembers, every choice becomes a risk: the country she might save, the men she might lose, and the life she may never be able to return to.

Because 1938 was never hers. Until love made leaving impossible.