Mystery to Me Books | Madison WI

About the book 

THE 23RD HERO, a sci-fi adventure love story about an ordinary woman with an extraordinary memory who is chosen as the world's first female time traveler and sent to 16th-century France to save the world from environmental apocalypse.

About the author 

Rebecca Anne Nguyen is an award-winning author, playwright, freelance writer based in Milwaukee. She is the author (with Tom Voss) of Where War Ends: A Combat Veteran's 2,700-Mile Journey to Heal (New World Library), a 2019 Foreword Indies Book of the Year Silver Award winner for Autobiography & Memoir. Her fiction debut, THE 23RD HERO, is forthcoming from Castle Bridge Media in 2024.Rebecca's nonfiction has been published in The New York Times, Insider, and in the Military Times. Her fiction has appeared in Defenestration, Wintermute Lit, and Write Launch, and her humor has been published on Slackjaw, Points in Case, and Frazzled.Rebecca's short plays and one acts have been produced in New York City, Los Angeles, and Miami. Her first full length play, Hypotheticals, received its world premiere production in April, 2024 at Kith & Kin Theatre Collective in Milwaukee. Readings of her work have been produced as part of World Premiere Wisconsin, Cincinnati LAB New Works Festival, and Epiphanies New Works Festival in Waco, TX, where Hypotheticals was the 2023 festival winner.