Unsettling Time by Bretton Loney

Ryan Treiber, a Saint Mary’s University lecturer, falls while walking in downtown Halifax and is hurtled back in time to 1749 and the city’s first days.
Incapacitated by the side effects of time travel, he is found by Aubry De Courcy, a member of Governor Edward Cornwallis’s council. As Ryan struggles to survive in an eighteenth-century settlement, he and Aubry learn of the brutal murder of a servant.
The authorities refuse to investigate the crime because of the servant’s alleged homosexuality. That injustice launches Ryan and Aubry on the hunt to find the killer.
The intelligent and intriguing Mrs. Athena Dunfield, her Black assistant, Joseph, and Ryan's new Acadian friend, Michel, join Ryan and Aubry on the quest to solve the murder. Ryan’s growing feelings for Athena make his new life increasingly more appealing.
Unsettling Time offers intimate insight into colonial Halifax and the people who shaped it.