Description
Henrietta Godolphin has a secret powerful enough to rewrite history-and destroy her future. Born into the opulence and rigid expectations of the 1700s, Henrietta is the wife of Francis, the Second Earl of Godolphin, and a woman under immense pressure to do one thing: produce an heir. But behind her composed aristocratic exterior lies an extraordinary truth-Henrietta can move between centuries, slipping from candlelit ballrooms into the pulse of the modern world with ease. In the present day, she wields wealth, technology, and cutting-edge medicine in ways her own time could never imagine. Desperate to secure her legacy, she begins a dangerous and deeply secretive mission: selecting a man from the modern world to determine if he could father the child her husband likely cannot. That man is Tristan. What begins as a calculated, clinical arrangement quickly unravels into something far more complicated. Tristan is everything her world is not-honest, grounded, and disarmingly real. Against all reason, Henrietta finds herself falling for him, torn between duty and desire, history and possibility. In a bold gamble to have both, she brings Mark back to the 1700s, granting him status and power alongside her husband. But the past is not easily tamed. Mark struggles to survive in a world bound by rules he doesn't understand, while Henrietta's carefully constructed life begins to fracture under the weight of her choices. Now, with time itself no longer on her side, Henrietta must decide: remain loyal to the life she was born into, or risk everything for a love that was never meant to exist. Because some choices don't just change the future-they shatter it.
The One
