Historical fiction across time and shadows
Winter Hawthorne writes atmospheric Regency romance about memory, power, displacement, and the choices that bind us across time.
Zoe’s Journey · Book One
The first novel
Time is not what binds her. Memory is.
At thirty, Zoe Hawthorne is caught between regret and expectation. Then an antique book pulls her out of the present and into a world that feels unfamiliar, yet strangely deliberate.
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From the journal
A small collection for readers who like to linger a little longer.
Free reading · Chapter II
Continue Zoe's journey into Westfield Manor, where every answer seems to cast a longer shadow.
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Free reading · Chapter I
Begin with an antique book, a London bookshop, and the instant Zoe's familiar world falls away.
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Reflection
A novelist's reflection on uncertainty, attachment, and the quiet cost of losing your footing.
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Reading notes
Notes on love, responsibility, time, and the words that reveal something new when we return to them.
Read moreAbout the author
Winter Hawthorne writes historical time-travel fiction that explores love, power, female interiority, and the strange distances between who we are and who the world expects us to become.
Raised in Hsinchu, Taiwan’s wind city, she is currently working on the second and third volumes of Zoe’s Journey.
Questions, ideas, collaborations, or a quiet hello.
winterhawthornebooks@gmail.com