"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 2099, humanity is a relic. In a cold, emotionally dead world of survival, 19 year old Regina is chosen for an impossible mission: travel back to 1981 and alter history to save Michael Jackson. Armed with a false identity and a luxury Los Angeles penthouse, her path to him requires infiltrating the cutthroat music industry from the inside out. But as Hollywood's pressure and dark secrets pull her under, something unexpected happens. The warmth and humanity of the 1980s start to melt her armor. Between late night studio sessions and the mission to save a broken superstar, Regina finds something she never expected to experience in the future: A reason to live.