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The Year That Wasn’t Hers
A red door. A ruined castle. A past that wants to keep her.
Academic librarian Cecily Bishop came to Wales for a quiet a historic library, a few weeks of research, and enough distance to recover from the life she left behind.
Then she opens a door in a ruined castle and steps into 1938.
The world she finds is dazzling, dangerous, and already sliding toward war. Aristocrats raise glasses while fascism spreads through drawing rooms and dinner tables. Men with money and influence whisper about power, loyalty, and the future they intend to build. Ceci knows where this road leads.
She also knows no one will believe her.
The real danger begins with Duncan Carlton and Archie Booker.
Duncan is controlled, powerful, and impossible to read, a man trained to bury every dangerous feeling beneath duty and restraint. Archie is all charm, wit, and old wounds, beautiful enough to break hearts and reckless enough to risk his own. The two men are already bound by history, loyalty, and a desire neither of them has dared to name.
Ceci should be a stranger in their world.
Instead, she becomes the woman who sees the danger coming, and the woman they both want too much to let go.
But someone else knows about the door. Someone else is changing the past. And as the future twists into something darker than the history Ceci remembers, every choice becomes a the country she might save, the men she might lose, and the life she may never be able to return to.
Because 1938 was never hers.
Until love made leaving impossible.
The Year That Wasn’t Hers is a time travel romance of dangerous secrets, political betrayal, forbidden desire, and MMF love set against the glittering menace of prewar Great Britain. Perfect for readers who want historical intrigue, fast-burning emotional intensity, charged MM tension, and a romance where the stakes are nothing less than history itself.
Academic librarian Cecily Bishop came to Wales for a quiet a historic library, a few weeks of research, and enough distance to recover from the life she left behind.
Then she opens a door in a ruined castle and steps into 1938.
The world she finds is dazzling, dangerous, and already sliding toward war. Aristocrats raise glasses while fascism spreads through drawing rooms and dinner tables. Men with money and influence whisper about power, loyalty, and the future they intend to build. Ceci knows where this road leads.
She also knows no one will believe her.
The real danger begins with Duncan Carlton and Archie Booker.
Duncan is controlled, powerful, and impossible to read, a man trained to bury every dangerous feeling beneath duty and restraint. Archie is all charm, wit, and old wounds, beautiful enough to break hearts and reckless enough to risk his own. The two men are already bound by history, loyalty, and a desire neither of them has dared to name.
Ceci should be a stranger in their world.
Instead, she becomes the woman who sees the danger coming, and the woman they both want too much to let go.
But someone else knows about the door. Someone else is changing the past. And as the future twists into something darker than the history Ceci remembers, every choice becomes a the country she might save, the men she might lose, and the life she may never be able to return to.
Because 1938 was never hers.
Until love made leaving impossible.
The Year That Wasn’t Hers is a time travel romance of dangerous secrets, political betrayal, forbidden desire, and MMF love set against the glittering menace of prewar Great Britain. Perfect for readers who want historical intrigue, fast-burning emotional intensity, charged MM tension, and a romance where the stakes are nothing less than history itself.
578 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 17, 2026
About the author
Sara Sweeney
1 book5 followersSara Sweeney writes time-travel romance with ruined castles, complicated love stories, historical secrets, and just enough danger to make everyone’s choices worse. An academic librarian by day, she has a soft spot for old buildings, strange archives, Gothic atmosphere, and women who accidentally walk through the wrong door. She lives on a farm in rural Oklahoma.
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July 1, 2026
A marvelous debut, full of romance, history, fantasy, mystery.
July 30, 2026
The characters are full of life. The story kept my attention and I want to know how I can get myself a Duncan and Archie.
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