OCTOBER 3, 2023
I’m thrilled to announce a new publishing deal!
In January 2025, Orbit Books will release my sci-fi novel, THE THIRD RULE OF TIME TRAVEL.
Of course, there are rules…
THE THIRD RULE OF TIME TRAVEL is a story of a scientist, Beth Darlow, who discovers a way to send human consciousness through time — to a random point in a person’s lifetime. But there are limits to what the traveler can do.
There are rules.
First Rule: the travel can only occur at a random point in the traveler’s lifetime.
Second Rule: the traveler can only maintain contact for ninety seconds.
Third Rule: the traveler can only observe.
What would it be like to relive the worst tragedies, the most difficult decisions—the things you could do differently that would change your life—while only able to watch those events unfold all over again in real-time?
What would happen if you returned to the present to find it altered, while having no idea of what exactly changed, or why? What if you altered the timeline in a way that changed your life for the worse?
What if someone you loved ceased to exist?
For Beth, her discovery of time travel is both her savior and her worst enemy. It is the thing that gives her life purpose while shattering it over and over again.
In THE THIRD RULE OF TIME TRAVEL, Beth discovers more than the secrets of time. She discovers the costs of playing God.
THE THIRD RULE OF TIME TRAVEL is an amalgam of hard sci-fi, elements of horror, and a ticking clock thriller that will keep readers guessing until the very last page.
I’m excited to share this novel with you, and am grateful to Orbit Books US and UK for taking on the project, and to my agent Elizabeth Copps for putting the deal together.
More soon,
PF
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