Overview

To have met? Impossible. To be lovers? Inevitable.

Faith and Hollis live 125 years apart - brilliant Faith languishing on a farm in 1895, and Hollis, a wisecracking bike messenger in 2020. How Hollis lands in Faith's uncle's cow pasture, and how to get home - if she even wants to go home - might be among the deepest puzzles that the universe has to offer.

To be torn apart would be unbearable, but there might be rules about staying in one century or the other, rules about changing things in the past. Between Faith's genius and Hollis's wit, how long can they hold onto each other in defiance of the laws of physics?