Anywhen

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Winner of the prestigious 2025 Readers’ Favorite International Book Award General Fiction Medal

Five Stars from Publishers Weekly’s Readers’ Favorite and The US Review of Books

She was born into perfection.
She fell in love with a moment that was never meant to last.


Baezy comes from a future where everything worked. No wars. No hunger. No fear. A world shaped by idealism, harmony—and dancing to the music of the 1960s. Woodstock isn’t just a festival to her. It’s the heartbeat of the world that made her possible.


So when she’s given the chance to time-travel, she doesn’t hesitate. One weekend. One ancestor to find among half a million muddy dreamers. One rule she absolutely cannot break: do not change history.


Woodstock is louder, messier, and more alive than any archive promised. Baezy finds her great-great-great-grandmother Kelly—brilliant, complicated, and becoming the MIT researcher whose early AI work built the foundation of Baezy’s utopia. History is right on schedule.


Then Baezy meets Jack.


Jack Warren is a high school math teacher with the softest brown eyes, a quick smile, and a draft notice burning a hole in his future. He isn’t a legend. He isn’t preserved by nostalgia. He’s real—and he’s running out of time.


Falling for him was never part of the plan. Neither was discovering that Kelly might be falling for him too. Time travel rules are strangely silent on how to handle romantic paradoxes.


Now Baezy is trapped between everything she knows is right and everything she feels is real. Saving Jack could unravel the future she loves. Leaving him means accepting a history written in loss.


As the music fades and the timeline strains, Baezy must choose: protect the perfect world that raised her—or shatter time itself for a love that history never intended to survive.


130 years apart. One impossible love.


Why you’ll love it:
Blending the emotional intensity of The Time Traveler’s Wife with the lyrical sweep of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, ANYWHEN is a time-slip romance steeped in cultural nostalgia, historical consequence, and the devastating question at the heart of every era…

What would you risk to keep the moment that changed everything?
(Time travel rules say “don’t.” Love, as usual, disagrees.)