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The Third Rule of Time Travel

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By Philip Fracassi

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Rule One: Travel can only occur to a point within your lifetime.
Rule Two: You can only travel for ninety seconds.
Rule Three: You can only observe.
The rules cannot be broken.
 
In this riveting science fiction novel from acclaimed author Philip Fracassi, a scientist has unlocked the mysteries of time travel. This is not the story you think you know. And the rules are only the beginning.

Scientist Beth Darlow has discovered the unimaginable. She's built a machine that allows human consciousness to travel through time—to any point in the traveler's lifetime—and relive moments of their life. An impossible breakthrough, but it's not perfect: the traveler has no way to interact with the past. They can only observe.
 
After Beth's husband, Colson, the co-creator of the machine, dies in a tragic car accident, Beth is left to raise Isabella—their only daughter—and continue the work they started. Mired in grief and threatened by her ruthless CEO, Beth pushes herself to the limit to prove the value of her technology.
 
Then the impossible happens. Simply viewing personal history should not alter the present, but with each new observation she makes, her own timeline begins to warp.
 
As her reality constantly shifts, Beth must solve the puzzles of her past, even if it means forsaking her future.

Genre:

  • “Fracassi paints this gloomy tale with painfully beautiful and detailed prose.”
    Library Journal on Boys in the Valley
  • "[Fracassi is] especially skillful at creating, and sustaining, suspense.”
    The New York Times
  • “This Fracassi guy is damn good.”
    Richard Chizmar, New York Times bestselling author
  • “Philip Fracassi is an artist who paints with words…timeless and original.”
    Zoje Stage, USA Today bestselling author of Baby Teeth

On Sale
Mar 18, 2025
Publisher
Hachette Audio
ISBN-13
9781668647721

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Philip Fracassi

About the Author

Philip Fracassi is the Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of the story collections Behold the Void and Beneath a Pale Sky. His novels include A Child Alone with Strangers, Gothic, and Boys in the Valley. His stories have been published in numerous magazines and anthologies, including Best Horror of the Year, Nightmare Magazine, Southwest Review, Interzone, and Black Static. Philip lives in Los Angeles and is represented by Copps Literary Services.

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