THE COUNTESS OF ATLIT

For lovers of OUTLANDER and LIFE AFTER LIFE: Masha Tzur-Glozman's debut novel, THE EDGE OF TIME, tells the story of Idit and Halimi, an edgy Tel Aviv couple who, in the wake of a marital crisis, move to the small seaside town of Atlit. There, Idit finds an ancient spring near the local ruins of a crusader fortress and falls back in time, and into the arms of Jean D'Ibelin - a French crusader knight.

Idit Rozhevsky, a literary translator, and her husband Saul Halimi, a magazine editor, take their young daughter Lily and leave their apartment in the buzzing city of Tel Aviv for a spacious house in the seaside town of Atlit near a large Crusader fortress. Idit and Halimi met in the dance clubs of Tel Aviv and embarked upon an intense relationship fueled by alcohol and drugs that morphed into a passionate connection. But that doesn't stop Halimi from straying. Idit, who cannot keep up with his indiscretions, proposes an open marriage, and in an attempt to reconnect, they leave Lily with Halimi's parents for the weekend and embark on a psychedelic trip down memory lane. Except Idit stumbles upon an ancient spring and finds herself in the year 1240, the year of the "Barons' Crusade" in the Holy Land, one of the most puzzling but successful crusades in history. A knight named Jean D'Ibelin stumbles upon her, and she begins to regularly visit the distant past. The delicate affair that develops between Idit and Jean unfolds in parallel with the story of her relationship with Halimi, and she is forced to deal with the true and deep meaning of the multiplicity of love. THE EDGE OF TIME is sharp historical fiction blended with a 21st century story about modern love, an unputdownable time-traveling adventure that gets at the heart of infidelity with a connection that spans millennia. Masha Zur-Glozman is a translator and journalist based in Tel Aviv. She writes for and edits the cultural supplement of Israeli newspaper "Haaretz," and was a book critic for more than 10 years in various Israeli newspapers. With her husband Yonatan Zur, Glozman made two documentary films, "Amos Oz - The Nature of Dreams" and "Magia Russica", which were screened internationally.