Genna is a fifteen-year-old lady who wants out of her tough Brooklyn community. But she gets more than she bargained for when a wish eliminated awry transports her back in its history. Facing the perilous realities of Civil War-era Brooklyn, Genna must use all her wits to survive. In the tradition of Octavia Butler’s Kindred and Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, A Want After Midnight is the impacting and inspiring story of the fearless young woman’s fight to hold on to her individuality and her mankind in two different worlds.