The 23rd Hero is a 2025 Audie Awards® nominee
Rebecca Anne Nguyen, a Milwaukee novelist and playwright, has received a prestigious Audie Award nomination for her audiobook, The 23rd Hero. The novel, about a woman who travels back in time to stop climate change before it begins, is a top five finalist in the Narration By The Author category, pitting debut author Nguyen against the likes of Whoopi Goldberg and Salman Rushdie.
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An ordinary woman
with an extraordinary memory
In the near-future, the world is desperate for a Hero
On the verge of being forced to live in an underground bunker due to climate crisis, an ordinary woman with an extraordinary memory is recruited for a time travel program to stop environmental disasters before they happen. But when she falls in love with the program's mysterious founder, she must learn to believe in herself and her abilities before she's sent to sixteenth-century France with no way to save the world or return to the man she loves.