The Dead End of Time: A Sci Fi Romance Thriller

A Sovereign Syndicate Novel - Book OneShe had one rule. She broke it at second eleven.The future runs on a single law: a Closer must never keep physical contact with a target for more than ten seconds. Touch too long, and the connection becomes permanent. The timeline fractures. The ledger bleeds. Charmaine has spent her entire career keeping that rule. She has no memories before the Agency. No name she chose. No one she was ever allowed to keep. As Closer 7, she is the future's finest weapon - trained to feel nothing, sent to 1924 Santa Cruz to eliminate the anomaly that is anchoring the century to the California coastline and bleeding the Agency's systems dry. Joe Miller is building the Giant Dipper on the edge of the Pacific with bleeding hands and iron certainty. He doesn't know about the Braid. He doesn't know a machine in 2026 has flagged him for deletion. He only knows that when a woman falls out of the sky onto his scaffolding fifty feet above the surf, he has her in his arms before she can reach for her gun.He makes contact at second one.She is still holding on at second eleven.Now the Agency is watching her heartbeat. Chronal Charges are buried beneath the coaster's foundation, timed to erase Santa Cruz from the map. Her handler wants her to feel every second of falling in love - so she understands, precisely, what she is about to lose.Charmaine has one mission left. She can execute the target and return to a future that smells like recycled air and has no room for grief. Or she can press her wrist against a live transformer, burn the Agency's leash off her own skin, and stay in 1924 - forever.She cannot do both. If you love time travel romance with high-stakes action, morally complex heroines, and a love story that costs everything - The Dead End of Time will ruin you for every other couple.

Pages: 198, Paperback, Eastside Publishing