Dani is twenty-one, a hotshot soccer player, and definitely not in love with her best friend. At least, that's what she keeps telling herself - right up until Mary hands her a strange heirloom box and leaves for college without looking back. Then the box opens. The air tears, and Dani is dragged through a portal into 1905 Portland - a city of gaslights, secrets, and rules designed to break women like her.

She's ready to fight her way home. What she doesn't expect is Rowen. Confident. Beautiful. Dangerous. Everyone thinks Rowen is a man, but Dani sees through the suit - and what she finds underneath is raw, electric, and impossibly off-limits. Rowen is hiding more than just her name. She's engaged. She's a virgin. And she has no idea what to do with the way Dani looks at her. Then there's Gabe - charismatic, infuriating, and unsettlingly familiar. His clock shop holds the secrets to time travel. His eyes hold something else. Something that makes Dani question everything she thought she wanted.

Stuck in a past that won't accept her and tangled in a love triangle that burns hotter than it should, Dani must decide who she's willing to betray - and who she's willing to become - to find her way back home.

Hauntingly romantic, unapologetically queer, and wickedly steamy, The Light Gazer is a story about impossible attraction, buried secrets, time's brutal cost, and the sharp edge between love and ruin.