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A Time to Belong: A Time-Travel Frontier Romance

A Time to Belong: A Time-Travel Frontier Romance

Paperback

Romance

ISBN13: 9798170326129
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 28 2026
Pages: 416
Weight: 0.86
Height: 1.03 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
She spent six weeks restoring a machine nobody believed had ever worked.

Then it worked.

Tina Bayles is a conservator three days from the fellowship she has chased since she was nineteen. The thing on her bench is a corroded calculating engine that the museum catalog dismisses as a curiosity, and she is alone in the lab at nine at night, arguing with it, when it throws an arc.

Kansas in 1871 is on the other side.

Lawrence is eight years out from being burned to the ground and determined to be a town that believes in progress. It does not believe in Carleton Rhoades, a self-taught farmer with equations chalked on every surface of his workshop, and it does not believe in his son Ezekiel, who long ago stopped expecting to be taken seriously by anyone. They are building the machine Tina has spent six weeks taking apart. It is not finished. It is not supposed to exist. And the arc it makes when it runs is the only thing that can send her home.

She has no family here, no papers, no money, and no way to prove she is anybody at all. What she has is a pair of hands that know exactly what that engine needs, and a man who watches her work and never once tells her to put the tools down.

But the machine has to prove itself in public, on a date that will not move. The respectable family that took her in expects to be repaid. And the window home will open once.

A Time to Belong is a complete standalone historical romance with a guaranteed happily ever after, and Book One of A Time to Thrive. The books in this series share a theme rather than a plot and can be read in any order.

Slow-burn partnership. Forced proximity. A guarded man worth the wait. A heroine whose expertise is the whole point. Open-door heat, real history, and a cost that gets paid on the page.

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