the Cost of Going Home: A Novel Carrier That Fell Through Time to Pearl Harbor

She has the most powerful warship on Earth, perfect knowledge of what happens next, and twenty four hours to decide what that's worth.On December 6, 1941, the USS Gerald R. Ford and her crew of 5,300 vanish from 2025 and reappear a few hundred miles off Oahu. Rear Admiral Claire Mercer has a fully modern carrier strike group and satellite era intelligence about exactly what is coming. What she doesn't have is a supply chain, a chain of command, or anyone left to ask permission.Every missile she fires tomorrow is a missile that will never be replaced. Every life she saves rewrites a future she isn't sure she can get back to, because the same rare conditions that might one day carry her ship home are the ones her own weapons burn away with every engagement. She can stop the attack. She cannot stop what it costs.And the deeper she gets into the war she is now reshaping, the more she finds decisions no single officer was ever meant to make alone: which battleships live, what Washington gets told, and what happens to a Japanese American pilot's family outside Fresno when the government she is protecting turns on its own people in ten weeks' time.This isn't a story about modern weapons erasing a WWII fleet. It's a story about what unlimited power costs the person who has to decide, again and again, exactly how much of it to spend, and what she is willing to give up to find her way home.For readers who want their military science fiction to sit with its consequences: command decisions with real weight, a WWII setting handled with respect for the history, and a heroine who counts every cost out loud.