A sweeping YA time-slip romance where love bridges a century, but history threatens to tear it apart. Nakama Press has announced Aperture, a standalone young adult OGN from Pacific Northwest-based writer Kirsten Thompson and acclaimed Brazilian illustrator Huenito. Blending romance, history, and quiet wonder, Aperture explores the fragile space where connection forms, and the forces that threaten to break it…

When Sage, a first-year university student, discovers a forgotten camera in the library archives, she’s thrust into a world beyond her own time. The camera links her to August, a student who walked the same halls more than a century earlier. What begins as a miraculous connection soon deepens into something neither of them expected. But history has a way of pulling people apart—and as WWI looms for August, the closer they grow, the more impossible it seems to hold on.

Rooted in emotional intimacy and longing, Aperture is a story about finding connection in unexpected places and choosing it even when time itself stands in the way. 

The 224-page OGN arrives August 25, 2026, and is now available for preorder at your favorite retailer and directly from Nakama Press.