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Matthew thought he'd finally found a way to change his life-early mornings, demolition work, and the small comfort of being tired for a reason.
Then he found the coin.
A dusty penny hidden inside a wall. The date 1906 stamped into metal. A number that shouldn't matter-until it burns into his mind and rips him out of 2023.
Time travel, Matthew learns, isn't a machine. It's a focus. A coin becomes a coordinate. And every jump costs-because the coin that takes you there turns to dust when the trip is done.
His first mistakes don't just change the past... they tear it.
Fractures appear-pockets of broken timeline where reality hangs together by habit alone. Neutral markets where nobody ages. Places where clown-faced robots watch every movement. Vaults of blacked-out dates and stolen futures.
That's when the war finds him.
The Timers pull Matthew in-hardened travellers led by Nicole, a fighter carrying more guilt than she'll ever admit. They don't know what Matthew is yet-only that someone like him shouldn't exist, and that the enemy wants him badly.
The Collectors aren't just hunting him... they're built for it. Their black coins don't just move them through time-they can rebuild them after death, stripping memory and humanity with every return.
And somewhere behind the fractures, something red is stirring-drawn to paradox like blood in water.
Matthew has one chance: learn the rules before he breaks what's left.
Because the future has a hard edge.
And time stops at 2082.