The Long Way Home: A Lesbian Time Travel Romance (The Way Through Time #1)
Jaz E Bear
Some love stories refuse to stay in one century.
Maeve has finally done the impossible—she’s returned home after years lost to time.
But home no longer fits. The woman she loved is gone, the world has moved on, and the cost of survival has left Maeve carrying a grief no timeline can erase.
Then she meets her.
A woman who looks exactly like the lover she lost.
A woman who shouldn’t exist.
A woman who reveals a truth Maeve never imagined: she has been searching for her too—traveling the long way, living through the years instead of leaping across them.
The Long Way Home is a slow-burn, emotionally grounded queer time travel romance about women who love across centuries, endure history instead of escaping it, and choose each other again and again in worlds that were never built for them.
Set across shifting timelines and forgotten margins of history, this novel explores:
Love that survives displacement and loss
Queer identity across hostile historical eras
Time travel that costs something real
Found safety in the aftermath of survival
Women who are no longer willing to disappear quietly
This is not a story about fixing the past.
It’s a story about endurance, choice, and finding home after everything familiar has been stripped away.
✨ Perfect for readers who love:
Lesbian romance with emotional depth
Time travel romance with consequences
Queer historical fiction
Slow-burn sapphic love stories
Found family and survival narratives
Underserved LGBTQ+ voices in speculative fiction
The Long Way Home is the first book in the Stories from the Margins of History series—a trilogy of queer romances that cross time, challenge survival, and refuse erasure.
📖 If you believe love can outlast centuries—and that some journeys are worth taking the long way—this story is for you.
Some journeys are instant.
Some take a lifetime.
