She was trained to watch history. She was never supposed to touch it.

Ava-Sky has finally earned her place as a History Documenter, one of the women entrusted with traveling into the past to reclaim what men have erased. Her task is to bear witness, not to intervene. Observe, detach, document. The past must remain untouched.

Until 1777, when, inside Abigail Adams’s candlelit home, she moves a flame.

It’s a small act. An unforgivable one. And no one can ever know.

Terrified of what she has done, Ava hides it from everyone, including her trainer and her closest friend. But when Ivy, the brilliant inventor of time travel, is kidnapped and the map of free women begins bleeding back to blue, the consequences of her secret become impossible to ignore.

Her search will lead her to a women’s prison on the eve of an execution, a lotus-covered island no map remembers, and a man who should not exist in her world at all. As the history that women fought to reclaim begins to unravel, Ava must confront the one rule she was never meant to break, and discover whether the mistake that could destroy everything might be the only thing that can save it.