The Other Yesterday

The Society of Lost Histories: Book 1

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Women's Adventure, Fantasy Mystery, Time Travel Suspense, Fantasy Adventure, Historical, Novels, and Debut

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Violence

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Sep 29, 2026

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343 pages

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The Other Yesterday

The Society of Lost Histories: Book 1

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Blurb

Lucy Wilson didn’t know time travel ran in her blood—until her mother disappeared.

In a single day, forensic genealogist Lucy loses her apartment, her career, and the boyfriend who forgot to mention he came from a Mafia family.

Then Creek Island calls her home. Not by phone. Not by letter. It calls her.

The Georgia sea island where her family has lived for two centuries was once part of Spanish Florida—a haven for privateers and pirates. Now her mother has vanished without a trace, just as a stranger surfaces with a two-hundred-year-old deed that could take the island from everyone who lives there.

Untrained, unprepared, and seriously underdressed, Lucy follows her mother's trail into the past—and lands in a lawless smugglers' port in 1814, where she can trust no one. Not the privateers. Not the smugglers. And definitely not the maddeningly attractive historian working for the enemy—who keeps appearing exactly when she needs him.

Now Lucy must find her mother and unravel a mystery two centuries in the making—before the past claims them both and Creek Island falls.

But the past holds tight to its secrets.

And time is running out.

For readers of Deborah Harkness, Diana Gabaldon, and Paula Brackston, featuring a smart heroine who faces an unexpected inheritance of time travel with curiosity, sarcasm, and a sense of humor.

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Genres

Women's Adventure, Fantasy Mystery, Time Travel Suspense, Fantasy Adventure, Historical, Novels, and Debut

Trigger Warnings

Violence

Type of Ending

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Series

The Society of Lost Histories — Book 1

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Publication Date

Sep 29, 2026

Page Length

343 pages

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Author

Cynthia B. Bishop is a former magazine editor, digital content developer, and lifelong storyteller who won her first writing contest at the age of eleven. An amateur genealogist with a love of old maps, forgotten records, and the mysteries hidden in family histories, she draws inspiration from the time she spent living along the coast of South Georgia, where the Sea Islands and the region’s complex history captured her imagination. Her debut novel, The Other Yesterday, is the first book in The Society of Lost Histories, a series blending historical mystery, family secrets, adventure, romance, humor, with a little time-travel thrown in. Cynthia lives in New England with her husband and their large, lovable Sheepadoodle.