"It causes your immune system to turn against you," I explained gently. The color terrifyingly drained from his face as he stared at his knuckles. "I have a spot," he whispered, his voice scraping like glass. "Right here." He let out a strangled noise as the stadium footage buffered. "Riley!" he shrieked, covering his burning face while peering through his fingers at his future self. "Those pants leave absolutely nothing to the imagination!" He went so unnaturally still I thought his heart had stopped beating. His charcoal-stained fingers curled into tight fists. "Fifty," he whispered, scanning the fatal summary on the glowing screen. "I am... I am gone at fifty." What if the only way to save your future was to completely abandon your past? In 1982, Michael Jackson is suffocating. Trapped behind his family's compound gates and drowning under industry pressure, the rising star just wants a life of peace and normalcy. The universe answers-violently ripping him from his timeline and dropping him onto the bedroom rug of Riley, a freelance graphic designer in the year 2025. Stranded forty-three years in the future, Michael must face a world that already knows his tragic history. But Riley fiercely refuses to let that history repeat. She offers him the anonymous, ordinary life he always craved, rebuilding his shattered confidence brick by brick and teaching him the radical concept of self-love. More importantly, she arms him with the ultimate weapon: the brutal truth. She gives him the exact names of the snakes hiding in his 1982 backyard, the upcoming betrayals, and the devastating tragedies he is destined to face. When the universe inevitably pulls him back, Michael is no longer the timid pop star terrified of his shadow. He is a king preparing to claim his throne, knowing exactly how to rewrite music history and what it takes to survive. But armed with the future, changing his fate might cost him the one person who taught him how to live.

Cindy (also known as Allison) lives in New York with her roommate Linda, who has cancer. After meeting a strange old man, Cindy is sent to a different dimension and ends up back in time during Michael Jackson's life starting in 1988. She is followed by the mysterious man and must navigate Michael's world alone, experiencing his life up close. Along the way, she makes new friends like Wanda and faces adventure, mystery, and grief while trying to understand her purpose and possibly prevent Michael Jackson's death.

In the year 2099, humanity is barely alive. The world is cold, robotic, and emotionally dead. People survive instead of living, and nineteen-year-old Regina knows that better than anyone. After a lifetime of trauma, loneliness, and loss, she's suddenly chosen for a mission that sounds impossible: travel back to 1981 and save Michael Jackson from the tragic fate history already wrote for him. But blending into the past won't be easy. With a fake identity, a luxury penthouse in Los Angeles, and a carefully planned path into the music industry, Regina must become a rising star before she can even get close to Michael. Fame, pressure, dangerous secrets, and the darker side of Hollywood slowly pull her deeper into a world she was never supposed to belong in. The problem? The more Regina experiences the warmth, beauty, and humanity of the 1980s... the less she wants to return to the future she came from. And somewhere between music, late-night studio sessions, fame, and saving a broken superstar, Regina might accidentally find the one thing she never had before: A reason to live.