Julie Stein wakes in the 1980s as a disowned ward forced into an arranged marriage.
Julie Stein falls asleep in her own time and opens her eyes in the 1980s, inhabiting the life of a wealthy household's cast-off ward with no blood tie to them. The family treats her as a bargaining chip, shipping her to the altar as a substitute for their legitimate daughter. Her intended groom is an older widower already raising two children, a man she never agreed to wed. Trapped in a past that is not hers, Julie faces a future decided by strangers.
Markers
- 1Time displacement
- 2Arranged marriage
- 3Family betrayal
Audience
Anyone drawn to fish-out-of-time stories where a woman fights a destiny she never chose will follow Julie's next move.
