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Olivia Hawker is the Washington Post bestselling author of October in the Earth, The Fire and the Ore, The Rise of Light, The Ragged Edge of Night, and One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow. She has been honored as a finalist for both the Washington State Book Award and the WILLA Literary Award. A permanent resident of Canada, Olivia divides her time between Victoria, British Columbia, and the San Juan Islands. For more information about the author and her work, please visit her website at www.hawkerbooks.com.

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In this captivating journey through time, an art historian makes an extraordinary discovery from the past that may foretell our future--if she can keep her connection to the woman who started it all.

2053. Haverford College.

Nineteenth-century art expert Derryn Witt documents an impossible find: gorgeously detailed paintings depicting the modern world...from 1859. But when a massive solar flare forces a shutdown of all integrated technology, her discovery is jeopardized.

The threat intensifies when a group of rebels attack the college, their movement resting upon the rejection of technology. Derryn flees to New York with the help of a sympathetic Sovereign, under the guise of being one herself.

But those Civil War-era paintings continue to confound her. Helen Bywater was surely more than an artist--but what? How could she possibly know what the world would look like beyond her own lifetime?

As the ethereal tie binding them grows stronger, Derryn begins to see what perhaps Helen did too. That no matter the time, the space between us isn't so vast. The struggles we face aren't so different. And the connection we need to survive isn't so out of reach.