One of the reasons I love time travel novels is because they seem so imaginative, especially the concept of parallel universes. They provide an interesting look at human destiny, different realities, and cause and effect. Through these stories, readers are given the opportunity to travel through several eras, questioning the idea that time moves in a linear fashion and revealing the complexities of both the past and the future. Besides the creativity involved, they are also intellectually stimulating because they frequently explore the ramifications of changing past events, the effects of knowing things that will happen in the future, and the complex dance between fate and free will.

I recently got a copy of Marc Guggenheim’s new novel “In Any Lifetime: A Novel” through Amazon First Reads. It’s a combination time travel/romance novel. I’m intrigued by the ‘I’ll find you in any lifetime’ aspect of romance, provided of course, the couple is truly in love and not a stalker situation. I haven’t read it yet, but I wanted to share it as a ‘new book’ feature. Stay tuned for the review.

Marc Guggenheim is an Emmy Award-winning writer and producer of television shows (Arrow, DC’S Legends of Tomorrow, Trollhunters, Carnival Row), movies (Green Lantern, Percy Jackson – Sea Of Monsters), comic books (X-Men Gold, Blade), video games (Call of Duty 3, Singularity, and novels (“Overwatch”). In his new book “In Any Lifetime: A Novel,” A devoted husband defies fate and risks everything to find the one universe where his beloved wife is still alive in this bold and thought-provoking novel. (Amazon, 2024)

“In Any Lifetime: A Novel” – Dr. Jonas Cullen has spent his career as a groundbreaking physicist defying the odds. But on the best night of his life—the night his wife, Amanda, tells him they’re finally having a baby—everything is taken away when a tragic car accident claims the lives of Amanda and their unborn child.

Gutted by pain, Jonas sets out to find a way to bring back Amanda—or rather, find a parallel universe in which she’s still alive. But that’s easier said than done. As Jonas comes to understand all too well, the universe favors certain outcomes…and Amanda’s death is one of them.

Guggenheim’s novel takes readers on a suspenseful journey, intercutting scenes of Jonas’s frantic, present-day search across multiple realities with glimpses from the past of his unfolding romance and eventual marriage. Will Jonas and Amanda reunite in some other world, or will fate succeed in taking her from him forever?