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The Ruins Of Tomorrow: "The Price of a Stolen Future"
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 22 2026
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.43 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
THE RUINS OF TOMORROW: The Price of a Stolen Future
Seventeen-year-old Julian Voss is still grieving his father when he finds it: an unfinished machine hidden under a blanket in the basement workshop, built from two years of secret work and a single warning scrawled inside a water-stained notebook. Everything moves at a cost.
Julian doesn't listen. He finishes what his father started - and travels thirteen years into the future to find himself as J.V. Voss, the celebrated, guarded founder of a company that has changed the world. Brilliant. Wealthy. And carrying a grief he won't explain, locked behind a door on the twentieth floor that no one is allowed through.
Desperate for a shortcut through the hard years ahead, Julian takes something from that future he was never meant to have. When the machine pulls him home, his present has changed - his house is gone, his family shattered, and the shortcut he stole turns out to be the very thing that caused it.
Now Julian has to face what his father's notebook tried to tell him all along: the machine doesn't undo mistakes. It only adds to them. And the only way forward is to stop chasing the future he wanted, and start living, honestly, in the one he actually made.
A novel about grief, ambition, and the difference between a future you earn and one you steal.
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