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Broken Rival

by Tessa Bailey

A time traveler caught between two brothers

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A time traveler caught between two brothers

Magnolia Brown arrives in 2026 from a future where time travel is outlawed, stranded after her scientist parents are killed for breaking that law. A Kansas family offers shelter—and complicates her choices: Fallon, her high school sweetheart, and Ramsey, a militia commander who hunts people like her. The setup brings time-travel danger into an enemies-to-lovers romance, with trust and divided loyalties at the heart of Magnolia’s predicament. The description frames the central tension around which brother she can rely on, while leaving open where the threat truly lies.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Romance readers interested in enemies-to-lovers dynamics and a choice between two brothers.
  • Readers who enjoy romance premises involving time travel and a speculative future.
  • Adult readers drawn to stories that combine romantic tension with danger and questions of trust.

Themes

Time travel and its consequencesTrust and divided loyaltiesEnemies-to-lovers romanceFamily and protection

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Book overview

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Tessa Bailey comes a gripping, heated romance about a girl trapped in a new reality, forced to make a choice between two brothers--one who is the high school golden boy, the other sworn to hunt down her kind--time travelers. This is Tessa Bailey as you've never seen her before.

Magnolia Brown loves Friday night football games, volunteering and dominating at high school swim meets. Just your average everyday eighteen-year-old. Except for one thing:

She's from fifty years in the future.

Magnolia's parents, two brilliant scientists, are the inventors of time travel, but due to widespread destruction and rampant abuse of the technology from a corrupt few, time travel is outlawed and punishable by death. When Magnolia's parents are seized and executed for illegally traveling to the past, they leave Magnolia stranded in 2026 without a way to get home.

Now Magnolia has nowhere to turn but a complicated Kansas family with two sons--Fallon, her high school sweetheart with secrets of his own, and Ramsey, the brooding militia commander who hunts and kills criminals like her. Magnolia knows Ramsey resents and hates her, but how can he be her true enemy when he looks at her with such hunger, despite his callousness, and guards her with his very life? Which brother can she trust and is the real danger coming from inside the house?

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