Trinkets

How do we honor the fragments of memory, the overlooked objects, and the quiet moral choices that shape a person's life? Trinkets, with its careful weaving of personal memory and inherited history, confronts this question in ways that feel both intimate and expansive. Becca wakes in a hospital room, her memories fractured and her past a locked vault. A single trinket—a mysterious ring with a hidden secret—offers a fleeting connection to her lost life. As she clutches this relic, Becca uncovers a chilling truth: her family's tragic history is entangled with a Nazi scientist's obsession with time travel and an alien message buried in a German crater at a war-torn concentration camp. Becca's quest to reclaim her identity leads her to the discovery of time bubbles—shimmering portals powered by the enigmatic alien technology. Scientific experiments with alien neural engrams could destroy Becca's mind—or unleash a catastrophic time loop. Trinkets is a gripping sci-fi thriller rooted in historical fiction that weaves memory, loss, and redemption into a tapestry of time travel and self-discovery. Becca grapples with the past, with what is broken and forgotten, and learns that the most fragile objects tether us to who we once were. For fans of The Time Traveler's Wife and Cloud Atlas, this novel by Darren Bosik explores how memory is not a device, but a moral landscape, and that the smallest things carry the greatest weight and link to our past.