Some places break us. Some carry us somewhere we never expected to go.
Grieving and desperate for solitude, Graham Jones escapes to a forgotten cottage on the Cornish cliffs. He expects silence.
What he finds instead is something impossible: a gold coin buried beneath the floorboards, untouched by time — and warm to the touch.
The moment he picks it up, the world shifts.
Graham wakes in another century, living under a name that is not his, surrounded by people who treat him as though he has always belonged there. He does not know the rules of this world — only that secrets carry weight, loyalty is dangerous, and one wrong decision could cost him everything.
At the centre of this new life is Eliza: fierce, guarded, and impossible to ignore. She moves through the world with purpose and keeps her truths close. Drawn to her despite every reason not to be, Graham finds himself risking far more than he ever intended.
From the crime-filled streets of London to a Paris trembling on the brink of revolution, danger follows wherever they go — and the past refuses to stay buried.
To everyone else, he is someone else entirely.
A sweeping story of love, loss, identity, and fate, The Cottage at the Edge of Time asks one haunting question:
If time offered you another life — and another heart — would you risk everything to follow it?