Charlie Forêt

Elara crossed dimensions with a dark mage's compulsion sealed into her soul — find the technomancer, hold him, and let the magic drag them both back. She has no choice. She never did.

Finn Miller has been running from the NSA since he weaponized their own quantum surveillance system against them. The corruption he's trying to expose stretches from congressional offices to trafficking operations. He's out of time, out of allies, and completely unprepared for the silver-haired priestess who steps out of a New York alley and into his collapsing life.

Together, they might be the only thing standing between every dimension and a chaos mage with ambitions that don't stop at any border — magical, political, or otherwise.

The problem: Elara can't tell where the compulsion ends and her own feelings begin.

Technomancer is dark fantasy romance where magic and quantum mechanics are the same force, and the hardest battle is the one you wage against yourself.

Paul Taylor has died before. A fusion lab explosion in 2033 cut short a brilliant career — and a life hollowed by isolation and regret. When he wakes as his fourteen-year-old self on the last day of eighth grade in June 1979, Paul understands immediately: he has been given a second chance, and he intends to use every one of fifty-one years of accumulated knowledge to take it.

He transfers to a new school, reconnects with Jeryl Salaway — the girl he let slip away in his first life — and begins building the technological empire he never had the courage to attempt. The patents multiply. The money follows. What Paul doesn't expect is that Jeryl won't cooperate with his plan. She isn't a chess piece to be positioned. She's a real person with her own sharp intelligence, her own ambitions, her own reasons to push back.

As Paul's profile rises, so do the dangers: federal agents circling his research, a violent attack outside a movie theater, and a government convinced that a teenage inventor with patents worth hundreds of millions represents a national security problem. Paul can outmaneuver institutions. He can't outmaneuver love.

The hardest thing about getting a second chance isn't knowing what to do differently — it's discovering you might have been wrong about everything that mattered.

For fans of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, Dark Matter, and Ready Player One.

Paul Taylor's second life was supposed to be better than the first. Mostly, it has been. He's the world's richest man, building between orbit and the children he's raising in his wife's absence. He built the future. He just couldn't protect it.

Another Past: Book Three is the series' most personal installment. When a geopolitical attack strips Paul of the person who anchored everything he built, he responds the only way he knows how: with overwhelming capability, patient strategy, and a grief that sends him deeper into the physics of time than any human has gone before.

Chrissy is warm and brave and brilliant, and she is clearly the right next chapter. But first, Paul needs to decide whether the life he built is worth living forward — or whether one more attempt at the past is worth the risk.

The hardest part of Paul Taylor's second life isn't knowing what to build. It's surviving what he's already built.

At twenty-one, Paul is engaged to Jeryl, running a company that's rewriting American defense technology, and quietly laying the groundwork for something no private citizen has ever accomplished: commercial space access. The patents are real. The money is real. So are the enemies — professional assassins in Salt Lake City, KGB operatives in Mykonos, and federal investigators convinced that a twenty-one-year-old inventor represents a national security problem.

Through it all, Paul and Jeryl are becoming something he never factored into his original plan: true partners. In business. In danger. In building the kind of life that makes surviving worth the trouble.

Another Past: Book Two spans eight years, two kids, one wedding, and the question Paul keeps returning to — what exactly is he building this for?