Threshold

Time-Travel Adventure

A doorway to the past reveals a warning for the future in this time-travel adventure by the author of Michael's Wife.

New Beginnings

Just released from prison after serving time for a false drug charge, Aletha Kingman decamps to Telluride, Colorado, for a fresh start.

Encounter with the Past

One day when she''s sketching an abandoned miner''s shack, she encounters a young girl, Callie, who''s been transported from the turn of the century. Aletha follows Callie back in time to the rough-and-tumble mining town where the impoverished girl faces a future of disrepute and her brother Bram is caught in the bloody conflict between hard-working miners and their bosses.

Determined to Make a Difference

Together with her newfound friend, the enigmatic Cree, Aletha is determined to use her foresight from the future to make a difference in the past.

Historical and Social Context

Suffused with the social and political history of the American West, The Threshold crosscuts between the disparate worlds of glitzy modern-day Telluride and its past incarnation as a gritty, turbulent mining town, brilliantly posing the question of whether we can—or should—alter the course of history.