The physics-bending charm of The Time Traveler’s Wife meets the curious mischief of The Eyre Affair in this debut novel.

Annabelle Aster doesn’t bow to convention-not even that of space and time-which makes the 1890s Kansas wheat field which has appeared in her modern-day SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA garden easy to simply accept. Even more thrilling is definitely Elsbeth, the truculent schoolmarm who sends Annie characters through the mystical brass mailbox perched around the picket fence that today divides their two worlds. In this unconventional and enchanting tale, Annie and her fresh neighbor must resolve the mystery of what links them before one of these is convicted of the murder which has yet to happen-and somehow already did.