When the Light Pulls You Back

Buffalo, NY. 1986. Mina Melton has always been drawn to traces of the past - the fading lines of old buildings, the worn streets of her city, and the stories of women whose lives shaped the world in quiet, enduring ways. But when she and her best friend Lillian are pulled through time to the 1901 Pan-American Exposition, where the glittering surface hides a far less perfect reality, history becomes something more immediate. More fragile. More alive.

Caught between two centuries, the girls search for a way home and stumble instead upon a frightened child, a missing bag of coins, and the slow realization that the past cannot be separated from the present - or from the future. As they move through a world where women's stories are so often lost or overlooked, Mina and Lillian begin to understand not only the weight of history, but the risks of the heart - and the truth of what they've meant to each other all along.

When the Light Pulls You Back is a story about friendship, first love, and the strength of women across generations. A meditation on time, memory, and the ways women carry each other forward, even when history tries to forget.