Digital Longing

It's 1999, and the world is counting down to midnight.

Michael Reid Shaw fixes failing systems for a living. He flies in, solves the problem, and disappears, steady, controlled, and quietly running from everything that isn't work. He has a fiancée and a life that looks fine from the outside. He has learned not to want more than that.

Chastity Cruz is the one who finds the bug everyone else missed. Precise, careful with the parts of herself she lets people see, she carries a hidden name, Noelle, like a softer truth she doesn't hand out for free.

They end up in the same Texas war room, racing to patch a Y2K billing crisis before midnight. Between cascading errors and late-night logs, something impossible keeps appearing in Michael's software, a phrase he never wrote, a name he shouldn't know, and a warmth in his palms that won't go away.

The flame remembers.

What do you do when the truest thing you've ever felt arrives at exactly the wrong time?

Digital Longing is a story about recognition that precedes reason, and about what it costs to choose safety when your soul is trying to tell you something else.

For readers who believe some connections span lifetimes, and some lessons can't be skipped.

Digital Longing is Volume 12 in the Journey Through Time: A Twin Flame Saga series. Each volume stands alone. Every lifetime reveals more of the truth.