Gilded Midnight

A BWWM Gilded Age Time Travel Mystery and Slow Burn Romance

By: Chey Lorain

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

He has lived the same deadly day for ten years. She is the only variable he didn’t predict.

New York City, 2025. Investigative journalist Zadie Washington is hunting for corruption in the history of the Shaw family empire. But when she touches a mysterious prototype in a museum exhibit, the world explodes into white light.

New York City, 1895. Zadie wakes up on the floor of a Gilded Age study, staring down the barrel of a pistol held by Donovan Shaw. But Donovan isn’t just a ruthless railroad tycoon; he is a prisoner. For a decade, he has been trapped in a time loop, reliving October 30th over three thousand times. Every cycle ends the same way: at the stroke of midnight, Donovan is murdered, and the day resets.

He has resigned himself to his fate—until Zadie arrives.

Now, the loop has a glitch. Zadie is the first new thing to happen in ten years, and she refuses to let him die without a fight. To break the curse, they must form an impossible partnership: a cynical 19th-century industrialist and a firebrand 21st-century reporter. Together, they must navigate a ballroom of masked enemies, unravel a conspiracy of greed and poison, and discharge a machine that defies the laws of physics.

But as they peel back the layers of the mystery, a slow-burn attraction ignites that transcends centuries. As midnight approaches, Zadie realizes that saving Donovan’s life might cost her the only thing she has left: her way home.

In a world where tomorrow never comes, can they build a future worth dying for?

Gilded Midnight is a gripping BWWM time travel romance featuring a diverse cast, a locked-room mystery, and a love story that defies the boundaries of time.