The Ministry of Time

In a near-future Britain, a civil servant lands a dream job at a secret government ministry that has discovered time travel and is testing its limits by bringing people from the past into the present. She is assigned as a “bridge” to one of these “expats,” Commander Graham Gore, a man taken from an 1840s Arctic expedition shortly before his death.

Her job is to live with him, monitor him, and help him adapt to modern life alongside other displaced people from different eras. As he and the other expats adjust to the twenty-first century, the story follows their daily routines, culture shock, humor, and uneasy intimacy, while the narrator also begins to notice troubling things about the ministry itself.

Over time, the professional arrangement deepens into romance, and the larger purpose of the project becomes increasingly unclear and dangerous. As secrets surface, the narrator is forced to confront the ethics of the ministry, the consequences of history being rearranged, and what it means to choose love, loyalty, and responsibility in a system built on power.