The Ministry of Time: The romantic, sci-fi, comedic, literary, genre-defying bestseller

In the near future, the British government has established a mysterious new organization called the Ministry of Time.

Its mission is extraordinary: scientists have discovered a way to bring people from the past into the present.

These people—known as "expats"—are taken from different moments in history and brought into modern Britain to determine whether time travel is safe and whether it can work without causing catastrophic changes to history.

A young British civil servant is offered a lucrative position as a "bridge."

Her job is to live with, monitor, and help one of these historical refugees adapt to the twenty-first century.

Her assigned expat is Commander Graham Gore, a Victorian naval officer and polar explorer who, according to history, died during the doomed Franklin expedition.

Suddenly, a man from the nineteenth century finds himself living in modern London.