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Synopsis
**New York, 2000.** Kate and Ben meet at a party and immediately fall in love. It is the first year of the new millennium, the first year without a war anywhere in the world. The United Nations has just planted its flag on Mars, and a Green Party senator is about to become the first female president of the United States. Kate falls asleep, knowing that she is loved. **London, 1593.** Kate wakes as Emilia - the mistress of a nobleman - and finds the plague at her door. Afflicted by premonitions of a burnt and lifeless city, she sets out to save the world. Each decision she makes will change her life with Ben forever. The story of love and alternate universes, madness and time travel, *The Heavens* is a dream bound up in a strange awakening; it is a novel of what we have lost, and what we might yet be able to save.
Is The Heavens appropriate for my child?
Suitable for most readers 16 and up.
A literary fantasy about a woman who splits her consciousness between modern New York and Elizabethan London, featuring mature themes of mental illness, plague, and the emotional toll of trying to change history. Contains mild sexuality as the protagonist navigates relationships in both timelines.
What to know going in
This book has mild violence, moderate sexual content, and mild language. Content notes include grief, mental illness, and plague/epidemic (see the full list above).
Who'll love this
Teens who love complex time travel stories and literary fiction will be drawn to this dual-timeline romance about a woman trying to save two worlds at once.