This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar

Winner of 2020 awards for Best Novella (Hugo, Nebula and Locus Awards) (209 pages). We are meeting a week early because Memorial Day is on the last Monday of the Month.

“Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandment finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, becomes something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future.

Except the discovery of their bond would mean the death of each of them. There’s still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win. That’s how war works, right?

Available from ABQ Public Library in Print and eAudio formats. Kindle price on Amazon: $9.99.