Daisy May

Daisy May never imagined death would last a century. The last thing she remembered was music filling a Harlem dance hall in 1923. At twenty-three, she dreamed of opening a dress shop, starting a family, and living in a world growing kinder than the one she had known. Instead, pneumonia claimed her within days. For 103 years, Daisy remained buried beneath weathered stone as time erased her from memory. Her loved ones passed away, her church disappeared, and the city she knew transformed beyond recognition. Then Dr. Elias Antoss brought her back. To the brilliant biomedical researcher, Daisy was never meant to be a miracle. She was proof that resurrection was possible. Obsessed with saving his terminally ill daughter, Annette, Antoss pushed medicine beyond regeneration into complete cellular and neural reconstruction, crossing the final boundary between life and death. He succeeded. When Daisy opened her eyes, she wasn’t an empty shell. She remembered everything—her mother’s voice, jazz drifting through Harlem streets, the prejudice she endured, the joy she found, and even the moment she died. To Daisy, only a heartbeat had passed. To the world, more than a century was gone. Electric lights illuminated every street. Horses had given way to automobiles. Tiny glowing devices held more knowledge than entire libraries. Everyone she had ever loved was gone. Yet the greatest shock wasn’t the future. It was the desperate man standing beside her. Dr. Antoss didn’t see a resurrected woman. He saw hope. Every impossible breakthrough that restored Daisy’s life brought him one step closer to saving Annette. Whether his discovery would become humanity’s greatest miracle—or its greatest mistake—remained to be seen.