The Vacuum We Return To

In the Nevada desert there is a hole where a laboratory used to be, a perfect hemisphere of absolute nothing, a hundred meters across, that swallows light and gives nothing back.

Hope Vale runs into burning buildings for a living. He has spent his life pulling strangers out of fire and bringing his own family home intact. When the vanished experiment that left that hole reaches back into his own past, he is forced to confront a harder question: what we would give to take back a single choice, and what is left of us once we do.

Spanning a marriage, a vanished experiment, and a science that lets time run the wrong way, The Vacuum We Return To is a novel about loss, memory, and the cost of undoing, built on a speculative framework in which time itself can be inverted.

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