The Chronographer
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If you could change the hand dealt to you in life, would you?
Desperate just to get through day-by-day, twenty-two year old Felicity Darner has been kidnapped. Taken from her life, from her work, from her daughter, she finds herself in a decidedly impossible situation. It just might be that she hit her head hard enough to finally go insane, or she really has woken up in 1831.
Lost, muddled, and wearing nothing but what seems to be a thin night shift, she stumbles into the country home of an Austrian house of nobility and is declared the lost daughter of the Gräfin returned at last.
Can she find her way back home, despite facing terrible odds?
Will she even want to?
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