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Threshold of us: Book 1—The first glitch
What if memory wasn’t something you lost…
but something the world tried to erase?
An accidental collision at an airport.
An envelope exchanged by mistake.
Later, an address appears where none should exist.
From that moment on, reality begins to hesitate.
Threshold of Us is a literary speculative romance set in a Paris that feels familiar—until it doesn’t.
The story follows Allison, a travel vlogger who edits life into meaning, and Pierre, a nature photographer who believes truth lives in what remains unseen.
They meet once.
And the world starts correcting around them.
Photographs surface where they shouldn’t.
Archives remember them before they remember each other.
Choices feel guided. Encounters feel rehearsed.
As if something—quiet, precise, and patient—is rearranging their paths.
The narrative unfolds through emotional loops, fractured timelines, and subtle glitches, never loud, never spectacular—just intimate enough to feel personal.
French dialogue appears naturally, woven into the English text as lived language, not ornament.
At its heart, this is not a story about time travel.
It’s a story about connection—and what happens when love becomes a variable a system cannot flatten.
For readers drawn
slow-burn, emotionally grounded romancespeculative fiction rooted in memory and identityintimate Parisian atmospheres and archival mysterystories where love feels like recognition rather than destinyIf you loved The Time Traveler’s Wife, Before Sunrise, Arrival, Dark
, or novels that linger long after the last page,
Threshold of Us is for you.
This is a story about what remains
when perfection fails—
and memory refuses to disappear.
but something the world tried to erase?
An accidental collision at an airport.
An envelope exchanged by mistake.
Later, an address appears where none should exist.
From that moment on, reality begins to hesitate.
Threshold of Us is a literary speculative romance set in a Paris that feels familiar—until it doesn’t.
The story follows Allison, a travel vlogger who edits life into meaning, and Pierre, a nature photographer who believes truth lives in what remains unseen.
They meet once.
And the world starts correcting around them.
Photographs surface where they shouldn’t.
Archives remember them before they remember each other.
Choices feel guided. Encounters feel rehearsed.
As if something—quiet, precise, and patient—is rearranging their paths.
The narrative unfolds through emotional loops, fractured timelines, and subtle glitches, never loud, never spectacular—just intimate enough to feel personal.
French dialogue appears naturally, woven into the English text as lived language, not ornament.
At its heart, this is not a story about time travel.
It’s a story about connection—and what happens when love becomes a variable a system cannot flatten.
For readers drawn
slow-burn, emotionally grounded romancespeculative fiction rooted in memory and identityintimate Parisian atmospheres and archival mysterystories where love feels like recognition rather than destinyIf you loved The Time Traveler’s Wife, Before Sunrise, Arrival, Dark
, or novels that linger long after the last page,
Threshold of Us is for you.
This is a story about what remains
when perfection fails—
and memory refuses to disappear.
473 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 22, 2025
About the author
Liza Hartfield
3 booksLiza Hartfield writes from a threshold she has never fully crossed.
She has always been drawn to stories that make reality waver: Guillaume Musso’s and Stephen King’s thrillers where everyday life suddenly cracks, apocalyptic sci-fi films where the world trembles beneath a truth too vast—those heavy silences where humanity finds itself alone with itself.
An automotive engineer by trade, she spends her days assembling pieces of a project just before it becomes irreversible, ensuring everything fits perfectly together.
Then one evening, a small child’s voice whispered: “You should write books, Auntie.”
That was the decisive glitch.
The Resonance Cycle was born from that moment: metaphysical romances where souls recognize each other beyond languages and timelines, where a single connection can make the entire universe glitch.
Threshold of Us is only the first echo.
It tells of a love that persists despite the iterations, despite the Architect, despite everything that tries to erase it.
Because deep down, Liza Hartfield believes some promises are older than time itself—and that they always find their way, carried by a child’s voice or a glance that spans worlds.
Read.
You might feel a hand that has been waiting for yours since the very beginning.
She has always been drawn to stories that make reality waver: Guillaume Musso’s and Stephen King’s thrillers where everyday life suddenly cracks, apocalyptic sci-fi films where the world trembles beneath a truth too vast—those heavy silences where humanity finds itself alone with itself.
An automotive engineer by trade, she spends her days assembling pieces of a project just before it becomes irreversible, ensuring everything fits perfectly together.
Then one evening, a small child’s voice whispered: “You should write books, Auntie.”
That was the decisive glitch.
The Resonance Cycle was born from that moment: metaphysical romances where souls recognize each other beyond languages and timelines, where a single connection can make the entire universe glitch.
Threshold of Us is only the first echo.
It tells of a love that persists despite the iterations, despite the Architect, despite everything that tries to erase it.
Because deep down, Liza Hartfield believes some promises are older than time itself—and that they always find their way, carried by a child’s voice or a glance that spans worlds.
Read.
You might feel a hand that has been waiting for yours since the very beginning.
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May 17, 2026
This is a lovely romantic story about love which keeps defying time and different lifetimes. It took me a while to get invested, but once I did it was easy to finish it.
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