About the Book

A man out of time. A mysterious door. God wastes nothing to get you where you need to be.

In 1901, Charles Wentworth could not have imagined the consequences of stepping through a strange door that appeared in his kitchen. After fifteen years of wandering in a vast, mysterious place, Charles finds an open door that sends him tumbling into 1991—ninety years from everything he loves. With only a photograph of his wife Margaret to remind him of home, Charles must navigate his new surroundings with no understanding of the modern world and only an eight-year-old boy named Dustin to help him.

Like Charles, Mary Bauer had been enticed by the door. Her step across the threshold changed everything when Charles shut the door behind him, unknowingly trapping Mary in the same supernatural space where windows display rolling green hills that aren’t quite real. After Mary finds her way home, five years have passed for her. But for her daughter Anna and husband Jim, it has only been part of a day.

When Mary suspects it was Charles who ran out of her house and that she holds the key to getting him home, she can’t walk away. The door that started everything isn’t finished with either of them yet.

 clean fiction with a Christian theme

no profanity | no sex | no gore

Details

Author: Catherine McDaugale

Genre: Contemporary Fantasy, Christian Fantasy, Time Travel

Publisher: Wild Lily Books, an imprint of Walk By Faith Media, LLC

Publication Year: Coming July 30, 2026

ASIN: _

ISBN: 978-1-956509-13-7 (paperback); 978-1-956509-14-4 (hardcover); 978-1-956509-15-1 (eBook)

List Price: $14.99

eBook Price: $9.99

Hardcover Price: $24.99

Available July 30, 2026