When Nigel Walden is fourteen, the UNHAPPENINGS begin. His first girlfriend disappears the day after their first kiss with no indication she ever existed. This retroactive change is the first of many only he seems to notice.
Several years later, when Nigel is visited by two people from his future, he hopes they can explain why the past keeps rewriting itself around him. But the enigmatic young … enigmatic young guide shares very little, and the haggard, incoherent, elderly version of himself is even less reliable. His search for answers takes him fifty-two years forward in time, where he finds himself stranded and alone.
And then he meets Helen.
Brilliant, hilarious, and beautiful, she captivates him. But Nigel’s relationships always unhappen, and if they get close it could be fatal for her. Worse, according to the young guide, just by entering Helen’s life, Nigel has already set into motion events that will have catastrophic consequences. In his efforts to reverse this, and to find a way to remain with Helen, he discovers the disturbing truth about the unhappenings, and the role he and his future self have played all along.
Equal parts time-travel adventure and tragic love story, Unhappenings is a tale of gravely bad choices, and Nigel’s struggle not to become what he sees in the preview of his worst self.
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A Novel concept of alternate lives, world events and happenings and the tragic affect the changing world has on a family.
In this story, things move forward from the perspective of the narrator, but not that of the companion who periodically begins to join him in his early 20’s. She’s the only other one he’s ever met who also experiences “unhappenings”, where things that always were suddenly aren’t anymore, with only the narrator stuck with a memory of a past that no …
UnHappenings is a very fast-paced, action-packed story of time travel and the repercussions involved when you start trying to “fix” things. While there is an underlying love story here, this is no “Outlander” or “Knight in Shining Armor” — it is NOT a Time Travel Romance. UnHappenings is a Time Travel SciFi Adenture story.
An “unhappening” can …
Loved this book! An absolute surprise. I have recommended this book to several friends.
Amazing work! Great characters. My #1 book to recommend.