THE CROSSROAD

An historical time-travel novella set in the Echo Chamber universe.For years, Thomas Grady has spent his vacations riding the railroads of nineteenth-century America. During a journey in 1889, he befriends Willa Hobart, a young woman traveling east toward an uncertain future. Torn between marriage in western Pennsylvania and a dream of making her own way in New York, Willa turns to Thomas for advice.Years later, a chance discovery in the archives of the Continuity Office forces Thomas to confront a devastating possibility: a single conversation on a train may have changed the course of another person's life forever.Set against the golden age of American rail travel and the shadow of an American tragedy, The Crossroad is a story about friendship, destiny, and the weight carried by seemingly ordinary choices.