In the winter of 1892, Owen Taylor keeps the machines running and his questions quiet. He is a foreman, a husband, a man shaped by decades of duty, and he has stopped asking whether any of it fits.
Then Mae Miller steps onto a crate in the factory yard and speaks the truth no one else will say out loud.
He recognizes her before he can explain it. Not from the town. Not from a rumor. From somewhere older, somewhere he can't name, somewhere his body remembers even when his mind refuses.
Mae is an organizer. A troublemaker, the owners say. A woman who looks at the world as it is and refuses to pretend it can't be changed. She didn't come to the factory yard looking for him. But when their eyes meet, something shifts in her the same way it shifts in him, ancient, unwelcome, and impossible to ignore.
Owen has a wife. Mae has a cause. Between them is a marriage neither of them can walk away from cleanly, an industry that punishes honesty, and a connection that does not care about any of it.
Engines of Desire is the story of two souls who meet in the noise of an industrial age and are forced, finally, to choose between the lives they've built and the truth they've been carrying across lifetimes.
Part historical fiction. Part spiritual awakening. Entirely unforgettable.
Engines of Desire is the seventh volume in the Journey Through Time: A Twin Flame Saga series, following twin flame souls across centuries and lifetimes as they find each other, mirror each other, and slowly grow toward union. Each volume stands alone. Every lifetime reveals more of the truth.