AND THEN SHE VANISHED

A man with newfound powers of time travel strives to harness his energy to save the sister who’s been missing since childhood.

In the summer of 1997, Joseph Bridgeman took his little sister, Amy, to the local fun fair. While he was trying to win her a prize, she vanished, never to be seen again. In 2019, Joseph still has not entirely recovered. Nor has his family, his father having ended his own life because he couldn’t bear what happened to Amy; his mother’s in a home with vascular dementia, never sure who’s who or where she is. Joseph has managed somewhat better. His ability to feel energy and communicate with objects amounts to a special power. But although he has one of Amy’s hair ties, his power is more a sidebar than the main attraction. An insomniac with all-too-little communication with money, Joseph isn’t sure what’s next in life until his accountant, Martin, refers him to a hypnotherapist to help him at least get a full night’s sleep. Kind, warm, and not particularly woo-woo, Alexia Finch isn’t exactly what Joseph expects, though he hadn’t known what a hypnotherapist does and still isn’t sure when he leaves her office. He feels calmer but not much else—until that night, when he goes back in time. He’s back in the present before he can understand what happened, but when he does, he’s sure he’s found the key to saving Amy. Will it be that simple?

Time travel with all the humor and none of the pesky paradoxes.