Description

Pittsburgh, 1902.

Eleanor Voss is not the kind of woman who asks permission.

A self-taught engineer and inventor working out of her late father’s workshop on Caldwell Street, Eleanor has spent years building something the world says is impossible — a time machine she calls the Meridian. Steel frame, polished brass fittings, and one extraordinary crystal component grown to her exact specifications by a glassblower who asked no questions.

With her wire haired terrier Rivet as her only companion, Eleanor travels forward through time — through a future of breathtaking beauty where humanity has traded curiosity for comfort, through a world of iron and shadow where the forgotten fight to reclaim what was taken from them, and finally into a place so alive and unhurried that she does something she never planned.

She stays.

What follows will test everything Eleanor believes about science, consequence, and the distance between good intentions and the things they become over time. She will lose more than she bargained for. She will sit alone at the end of the world and find, in the silence of a dying star, something she did not expect.

Clarity.

The Time Traveler is a story for anyone who has ever built something extraordinary, loved something fiercely, and had to find their way home from a place that had no map.

Beautifully illustrated with twelve original pen and ink drawings, this is historical science fiction with heart — cinematic in scope, intimate in feeling, and absolutely impossible to put down.

Some journeys change everything.