When a sinister force crashes her mother’s custody hearing and Neve realizes she’s being watched, she does what any self-respecting midlife mystic would do: clutches her geode, whispers a plea to Mercury Retrograde, and jumps into the past.
She lands in 1984 with Peregrine, inside Aura Cove’s Italian fine-dining restaurant, where neon lights glow, tempers simmer, and danger is camouflaged by charm. Carmen, a single mom, is waiting tables, and a brilliant, neurodivergent chef is trapped under the thumb of a controlling predator.
To set things right, Neve must topple a toxic power structure, protect the one who’s stolen her heart, and help Chef Enzo Bellini reclaim the confidence he’s lost. Each jump exacts a brutal toll, and if Neve waits too long, the truth she’s chasing may be lost forever.
Blair Bryan is an Amazon All-Star author of humorous low fantasy and magical realism novels. With more than a hundred thousand readers falling in love with her low-fantasy worlds, she writes about quirky heroines smack-dab in the middle of life, unexpected magic, and the warmth of family—whether it’s the one you’re born into or the one you find along the way.
When she’s not dreaming up magical misadventures, Blair is probably plotting her next escape to the Oregon Coast. She lives in Central Iowa with her husband and doodle dog and dreams of one day building a family compound with her two adult children in the Pacific Northwest.