The Kingdoms

Joe Tournier steps off a train in Londres in 1898. He can recall his own name, little else. Napoleon's conquest turned England into French territory in this alternate history, and people of English descent, Joe included, live as property. He has a job, a wife and a small daughter. A seizure disorder leaves him holding memories that don't belong: flashes of an England that still speaks English.

A postcard reaches him, mailed from a lighthouse on Eilean Mor, in Scotland's Outer Hebrides. It went up six months ago; the card was written nearly a hundred years earlier, by someone who plainly knows him. Following it north, Joe finds a way through into the Napoleonic Wars, where naval officer Missouri Kite and his sister Agatha are trying to bend the war's outcome with knowledge they should not have.

Helping them means gambling with the very history that produced the family Joe left behind in 1900, his daughter most of all. It could cost him his own place in the world he started from. The story moves between the two periods as he works out how much of the past he can touch before the future stops matching what he remembers.

It reads as a slow-building alternate history, built on a genuine time paradox rather than a swashbuckling one. The emotional stakes run as deep as the puzzle. Pulley wrote it as a standalone novel, with no link to her Watchmaker of Filigree Street books.