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A Thread Through Time
Paperback
Publisher Price: $57.48
ISBN13: 9789550612512
Publisher: Elowen Vance
Published: Sep 7 2026
Pages: 166
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.35 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
She came to study a nine-hundred-year-old war. Now she has to survive it.
Historian Elena Hart has spent her whole career reconstructing the Bridge War of Caldreth from broken pottery and half-burned chronicles - until a storm-born eclipse and an ancient bronze relic drop her, without warning, into the middle of the very battle she's spent eleven years studying from a safe, scholarly distance.
Mistaken for a spy, suspected of witchcraft, and armed with nothing but a decade of research she never expected to need to survive, Elena finds an unlikely ally in Cassian Brennick - the exhausted young commander holding his dying father's war march against a rival house that wants his lands, his life, and the very relic that brought her here. Every account she's ever read says he wins this war. It never once mentions how, or what he loses to do it.
As Elena trades her academic detachment for muddy boots and hard-won trust - outguessing enemy raids, rebuilding a siege camp's defenses, and falling steadily, helplessly in love with a man history barely remembers - she uncovers a devastating truth: the ancient chronicle names a mysterious woman who turns the tide of the war's final battle and then vanishes without a trace. The Lady of Thread.
She's reading her own future. And she doesn't know yet whether it ends in coming home, or in disappearing from the story completely.
With a rival house closing in, a relic that answers only to old debts, and a single narrow window before the door home closes for good, Elena must decide what kind of ending she's willing to write for herself - before the past decides it for her.
Perfect for readers who love:
- Fantasy romance with a real medieval-war backbone, not just window dressing
- A brilliant, capable heroine whose knowledge is her weapon
- Slow-burn, fade-to-black romance between a scholar and a battle-worn commander
- Time travel with genuine emotional stakes and a satisfying, earned ending
- Standalone fantasy - no cliffhangers, no waiting for book two
If you loved the sweep of a clan-war epic but wished it came with a heroine who could out-think the battlefield instead of just surviving it, A Thread Through Time is the story you've been waiting to fall into.
One eclipse. One impossible war. One choice that was never really about going home at all.
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