
"Torn between two people -- the woman he married one summer after a very brief courtship and the troubled male student who lusted after him for years. Some might call Jacob’s feelings selfish. But he knew three things for certain. He truly loved them both, they all loved one another, and the two of them were taken from him and this world much too soon.
Science fiction has claimed for decades there is a way to manipulate the years, the days, the hours to our whim. Jacob, left alone with so much of his life ahead of him, becomes obsessed with figuring out how. Even if he can change the laws of time, he isn’t certain past events can be reversed and, if they can, what it might mean in terms of being with either one of the two who captured his heart, now or in some other realm.
Can Jacob recapture any of the time he lost with either Wendy or Rory? Or is it possible he might somehow find both the man and the woman he loves again in another time?"

Chapter 1 The past… June 18, 1970 The student looked like he’d just come from Woodstock the previous summer, all gangly, wild, stringy yellow hair, sun browned skin, and sweat. The teacher was more like a 1950s nerd, with his knit argyle sweater vest, slicked back curls and geeky glasses. Jacob Wright had a thick black mustache, at least, which made him almost look like an adult, though there were actually only five years between them. It was finally the last day of school for Rory Rhodes—not just before summer vacation, but forever. He sat in the back of the classroom, on his desk. Just the other day, he’d admitted something. “You know what, Mr. Wright?” “What’s that, Rory?” “I suddenly realized this won’t be my desk anymore pretty soon. That makes me kinda sad.” Reclining against
