The Portal

<p>Three years after tragedy shattered his family tech visionary <strong>Jacob Hastings</strong> re-emerges with a creation meant to change the world. <em>The Portal</em>-an immersive neural system that allows users to step inside their own memories-promises connection healing and the chance to relive the moments that made them who they are.</p><p>To investors it's the next great leap in human experience.</p><p> To Jacob it's something else entirely: a way to see the son he lost if only inside the code.</p><p>But the past isn't meant to be perfect. When a live demonstration turns catastrophic-when a child's face flickers to life inside the system-Jacob realizes that his invention isn't remembering the past; it's rewriting it. As reality begins to blur his estranged wife <strong>Beth</strong> and their children are left to navigate the fallout of a man who keeps building worlds instead of facing his own.</p><p>Across one cold December in Cincinnati <em>The Portal</em> becomes more than a technological experiment-it becomes a mirror for guilt love and the need to believe that what's broken can still be made whole.</p><p>Tense intimate and cinematic <em>The Portal</em> is a near-future morality thriller about memory consequence and the dangerous comfort of second chances. In the tradition of <strong>Blake Crouch's <em>Dark Matter</em></strong> and <strong>Emily St. John Mandel's <em>Sea of Tranquility</em></strong> Jeremy Marsh blends science emotion and suspense into a story that asks one haunting question:</p><p><strong>If you could step back into your best moments would you ever come home?</strong></p>