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The Reset
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 26 2026
Pages: 346
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.72 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What if you were given the chance to live your life again?
Trevor has spent years believing that the past is fixed. The people he has lost are gone, the mistakes he made cannot be undone, and the future is something nobody can truly know.
Then everything changes.
After living an entire lifetime, Trevor is given an impossible second chance. He wakes at thirteen with the memories of the man he became still inside his head. He knows the people he will love, the people he will lose, the choices that will shape his life, and the events that are still waiting to happen.
At first, the opportunity seems almost miraculous.
He can prevent tragedies. He can make better choices. He can protect the people he loves. He can use knowledge from his first life to build a different future.
But changing the past has consequences.
Every intervention creates another possibility. People who should never have met begin to remember things they could not possibly know. Events occur that Trevor remembers differently. Sarah seems to recognise him before they have properly met. Others carry memories from lives that should never have existed.
And Trevor begins to realise that the Reset may not belong to him alone.
There are others who remember.
Some want to understand what is happening. Some want to control it. And one man, Tommy, believes that whoever controls memory and the branching possibilities of reality has the power to decide which version of history becomes real.
As Trevor searches for answers, he is drawn into a hidden world of people known as the Genuines, individuals whose memories connect across different timelines. What begins as a second chance at life becomes something far more dangerous.
Because the Reset is not simply about going back.
It is about choice.
How many times can you change the past before you destroy the future? How much pain would you erase if you could? And if you were given the power to create the perfect life, who would have to lose theirs for you to have it?
Trevor eventually faces the greatest temptation of all: a reality where everything he ever wanted has been restored. His father is alive. The people he loves have been spared their losses. His mistakes have never happened.
It is everything he dreamed of.
And that is precisely what makes it so difficult to refuse.
THE RESET is a story about second chances, memory, love, loss and the dangerous human desire to make life perfect. Because sometimes the hardest choice is not changing the past.
It is learning when to leave it alone.
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