A wrongful conviction sends him back in time. Love gives him a reason to return. Matt's life is already falling apart. Barely surviving on dock-loading jobs and living just off the streets, he has little reason to believe his future will improve. Then, one night in a bar, a fog generator fills the room. Shots ring out. A gun is shoved into Matt's hand.
And suddenly, he is accused of murder.
Convicted of a crime he did not commit, Matt is sentenced to a punishment reserved for the worst criminals in the future: time exile. He is sent back more than a thousand years, to ATIU Island in the South Pacific in the year 1092. A cabin and food shed have been prepared for him. He has food, shelter, and the means to survive.
But he is alone.
Until a storm washes a wrecked canoe onto the island.
Among the wreckage, Matt finds a young Polynesian woman barely clinging to life.
Her name is Anahera.
She speaks no English. Matt speaks no Māori. They have no shared language, no common history, and no idea how they can possibly communicate. But love has a language of its own.
Together, Matt and Anahera begin building a life together on the island. For the first time, Matt discovers something he had never expected to find: happiness.
Then everything is taken away.
Matt's conviction is overturned, and he is returned to the present. His memories of the island are believed to have been erased.
But memories are not always gone simply because they cannot be recalled. Slowly, fragments begin to return. A vision, a few Māori words, her name.Matt becomes convinced that Anahera was real-and that she is still waiting for him more than a thousand years in the past.
Now, to return to the woman he loves, Matt must convince the very system that sent him away to give him one impossible thing: a way back.
Sentenced to Time - Redemption is a sweeping time-travel romance about wrongful conviction, unexpected love, the power of memory, and the extraordinary possibility of finding your true home-no matter when, or where, it exists.
