Shattered Continuum

<p>Time isn't a river-it's a pane of glass already shattered. We live in the slivers convinced our shard is the only one while cracks spread all around us.</p><p></p><p>Dr. Heather Ashcroft knows those cracks better than anyone. Seven years ago a rain-slick highway took her husband and daughter from her. That moment became the fixed point of her life-a wound she can't heal the reason she's devoted herself to tracking the invisible decay that's slowly tearing the multiverse apart.</p><p></p><p>But when her experiments detect a catastrophic temporal scar bearing her own biometric signature Heather is forced to confront an impossible truth: the fracture wasn't an accident of nature. It was made by her... or rather by a version of her from an <strong>alternate reality</strong>. A version without grief. Without guilt. And she's coming to fix Heather's life by erasing it.</p><p></p><p>Hunted by the relentless <strong>Chronal Authority</strong> and an enemy who wears her face Heather forms an uneasy alliance with Julian Reed-a cynical ex-agent haunted by loss-and Asha Virell a disillusioned enforcer whose loyalty to the cause is collapsing. Together they're pulled through dying worlds in a <strong>multiverse thriller</strong> of shifting loyalties high-stakes betrayals and <strong>paradox time loops</strong> that defy the laws of reality.</p><p></p><p>From desperate rooftop chases to tense negotiations in <strong>dystopian sci-fi</strong> enclaves infected by temporal decay Heather must navigate fractured timelines confront haunting variants of herself and face the terrifying cost of rewriting the past.</p><p></p><p><strong>Every choice creates a ghost.</strong> And if she fails those ghosts will be all that's left.</p><p></p><p>Perfect for fans of <strong>time travel science fiction</strong> Blake Crouch and Alastair Reynolds <em>Shattered Continuum</em> blends relentless action hard science fiction concepts and deeply human emotion into an <strong>alternate realities novel</strong> where the greatest battle is between the life you had... and the one you'll do anything to get back.</p>