Echoes of the Famine: My Shadow Forge

"Sign it, and the flour is yours." That was my welcome to the freezing, fog-drenched valley of Krevna - waking up in the body of Olevia, a fat, reviled shrew about to trade her terrified twins to her vicious in-laws for a sack of moldy grain. Instead of taking the deal, I smashed the inkwell over my father-in-law's head and dragged my kids into the misty woods. I may have inherited a terrible reputation as an abusive mother, but I also inherited a chilling secret: an infinite, time-dilated library of future blueprints echoing in my mind. With Goran, a shadow-lynx born from the library’s twilight, by my side, I am turning our rotting cabin into an automated, retro-futuristic fortress to hoard food and survive the brutal famine. My greedy relatives think they can still steal our winter rations, but I will slap their faces so hard their teeth shatter. However, when my estranged husband, Commander Drevic, suddenly returns from a classified expedition with eyes like ice, the fog thickens. His top-secret mission? It involves the very temporal anomaly that powers my library. Can I protect our hoard from the starving village before the chilling truth consumes us all?