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The Once and Future Fling

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Looking for love in all the wrong ages.

Time travel is now legal, and matchmaking agency Kairos lets clients travel through time in search of love.

Ada Blum has always been "an old soul." She's convinced that she was born at the wrong time, and after a series of break-ins at her apartment and threatening messages, she's determined to figure out where she really belongs. She thinks she wants to go to Regency England, meet her Mr. Darcy, and settle down. However, a disastrous date ends with Ada covered in rancid chicken stock and rethinking her plans.

She returns to The Kairos Agency and agrees to try an entirely different era. She travels to 1920s New York where she meets Henry Levison, a small-time hood. After yet another horrible experience, she's about to give up on the whole matchmaking, time traveling adventure when she bumps into her first love, Samson St. Laurent, a State Senator with whom she had an affair that resulted in a major PR scandal for him and ruined Ada's life.

Sam is on the run through time, trying to use his knowledge of the future to make a fortune. He says he wants to win Ada back, but she's not sure that he's entirely trustworthy. In some ways, she's drawn to Henry, and when she discovers that he is going to be murdered, she decides to go back and save his life by bringing him to the present day—even if it violates every single Kairos rule.

As Ada jumps back and forth from the present to the past, she'll have to decide where her heart truly lies and which man she wants in her future.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      September 18, 2023
      Time travel is widely available but heavily regulated in Heasley’s inventive debut romance. After an affair with married senator Sam St. Laurent ends in disaster, Ada Blum believes she’s looking for Mr. Right in all the wrong places—and perhaps the wrong time. She turns to Kairos, a time travel company, and heads to Regency England hoping to recreate a romance novel—only for that adventure to similarly disappoint. Her next stop is 1920s New York City, where she meets Henry Levison, a handsome and talented violinist who seems a promising prospect. But there’s a catch: Henry works for the mob. Coincidentally also in 1920s N.Y.C. is time-traveling Sam, landing Ada at the center of a complicated, time-bending love triangle that encompasses multiple paradoxes, death, and threats from an agent of the Bureau of Temporal Anomalies who’s hot on Sam’s trail. There’s also plenty of humor as time periods clash—as when Ada brings Henry back to her present and must teach him about both television and feminism. Though not as polished as it could be, Heasley’s worldbuilding is lively, the stakes are high, and her quirky characters charm. This author’s off to a promising start.

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