How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky: A Novel

Lydia Netzer the award-winning author of Shine Shine Shine weaves a mind-bending heart-shattering love story that asks Can true love exist if its been planned from birth?. Like a jewel shimmering in a Midwest skyline the Toledo Institute of Astronomy is the nations premier center of astronomical discovery and a beacon of scientific learning for astronomers far and wide. Here dreamy cosmologist George Dermont mines the stars to prove the existence of God. Here Irene Sparks an unsentimental scientist creates black holes in captivity. . George and Irene are on a collision course with love destiny and fate. They have everything in common: both are ambitious both passionate about science both lonely and yearning for connection. The air seems to hum when theyre together. But George and Irenes attraction was not written in the stars. In fact their mothers friends since childhood raised them separately to become each others soulmates. When that long-secret plan triggers unintended consequences the two astronomers must discover the truth about their destinies and unravel the mystery of what Toledo holds for them―together or perhaps apart. . Lydia Netzer combines a gift for character and big-hearted storytelling with a sure hand for science and a vision of a city transformed by its unique celestial position exploring the conflicts of fate and determinism and asking how much of life is under our control and what is pre-ordained in the heavens in her novel How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky.