Another Past: Book One

Paul Taylor has died before.

A fusion lab explosion in 2033 ended a brilliant physicist's career — and a life hollowed by every relationship he never built. Then he wakes up in June 1979, fourteen years old, with fifty-one years of accumulated knowledge pressed into a teenager's body. He understands immediately: he's been given a second chance, and he intends to use every patent, every formula, every memory of the future to take it.

By sophomore year, the patents are worth millions. By junior year, the NSA has classified him as a strategic asset and the FBI is watching his machine shed. Paul knows exactly how to outmaneuver a federal agent. What he doesn't know is what to do about Jeryl Salaway — the girl he loved in his first life, who refuses to be a memory waiting to be retrieved. She isn't a chess piece. She's a real person with her own intelligence, her own ambitions, and her own reasons to push back on a boyfriend with suspiciously advanced ideas.

Paul can outmaneuver institutions. He can't outmaneuver love.

For readers of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, 11/22/63, and Replay — a time-travel epic for anyone who's ever wondered what they'd do with a second chance and fifty years of warning.