Jonathan Chesterfield, inventor of a 24th-century time machine, is conned by the mysterious Mrs. Chen who unceremoniously strands him in eighteenth-century China.

And for my friend Shane, this is the first admixture of time travel and LIDAR!
Hey, pull up the article from April 2018, where they found that airplaine using LIDAR.

Variants

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  1. Black Tiger: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Mrs. Chen, Book One by CJ Montgomery (Nook Press, July 2017).
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by CJ Montgomery