Coming Soon - SECOND CHANCE

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Second Chance is for fans of dystopian sci-fi, time travel, government cover-ups, time loop paradoxes, unexpected twists, aliens, sentient machines, and more, all written with no smut ever and no AI ever.

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UPDATE: I’ve sent Second Chance to the editor and expect to hear back by the end of April. I’m still hoping to publish mid to late 2026.


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What’s Second Chance about?

SECOND CHANCE

The only way to save the human race is to destroy everything and start over.

In the future, Earth lies in ruin after decades of war. Humanity is dying, and no one knows why people can’t reproduce.

The remnants of the human race evacuate to the moon, guarded by a sentient machine named Alexandria. To restore life, they launch Operation Second Chance, an experimental weapon designed to destroy their technological enemy on Earth, and reseed life for humankind’s return.

As they wait for their world to heal, Captain Brewer believes the fight is finally over. But an alien counterattack shortly after the operation cuts his peacetime short. In the battle, Brewer pursues an alien craft through a time portal and crashes onto pre-war Earth. There he uncovers a hidden truth buried within one of history’s greatest cover-ups.

While Brewer escapes to a new, peaceful life in the past, he learns that the fate of both timelines depends on the choices he makes. Now he must decide what future he will create, whether to live the quiet life he’s always wanted or risk everything and return to his timeline to save humanity’s future.


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