Mia Grichendler

During the final days of the video store era, a collector desperately clinging to the past while grieving his father's death finds a mysterious tape at his local video store and discovers that nostalgia can come at a terrible price.

For Sterling, a sort of present-day Alice, the graveyard Lotus she redeems becomes a totem, a saturated phenomenon permitting her to move freely in time on a phantom road. It is a sort of Ford but never a DeLorean. A Southern woman with a fair deal of historical baggage and deep secrets, Sterling journeys back to her rural home, the Lotus takes her through the shadow of the valley into the adjoining worlds of the living and the dead. Desiring to become an F1 driver, Sterling must go fast/hard, against/through all tunnels imagined or concrete.

Her childhood was stolen, will her entire life be stolen too? Alice was originally the heir of the Damon family,but was kidnapped and abandoned by her uncle,who wanted the family fortune to himself. Alice was then adopted by Lisa. After becoming an adult, Alice ran into her biological parents again,but she's already lost her childhood memories. Lola, Alice's high school friend, not only wants to steal Alice's identity, but also her ex-boyfriend Benjamin, who's still deeply in love with Alice. In order to get Alice out of the picture, Lola had commited to a series of evil plans. Luckily, Alice's biological father, Robben, eventually recognized his daughter, and Alice finally acquired her true identity. The story ends with a happy ending with Alice once again becomes the Damon family's heir and marries Benjamin.