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Lightbreakers

Aja Gabel · Literary Fiction

41 Pulse Score

Based on recommendations from independent creators

slow burnmultiple timelinestrauma recovery
slow burn
🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit

#234 All Time

About this book

Named a Most Anticipated Book by LA Times, LitHub, and Harper's Bazaar What would you give to relive the past? Maya, an artist, and Noah, a quantum physicist, share an insatiable curiosity about the world. But their happy marriage has a shadow over it: Serena, the child Noah had with his first wife, who died before she turned four. When Noah is invited by the Janus Project to unravel the secrets of time travel, he jumps at the opportunity. At a laboratory deep in the Texas desert, he begins participating in a dangerous experiment that could result in something he thought impossible: seeing his daughter again. Meanwhile, Maya embarks on a journey back to her own past in Japan, and to a formative lover who once shattered her heart. As Noah and Maya grapple with hope and despair, new information emerges that the experiments might not be exactly what they seems. A heartachingly moving novel, Lightbreakers plumbs the mysteries of human connection, and explores how to love in a world where t

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