Love Between Ashes and Starlight

K.barnes Donald Romance

On a battlefield where time itself teeters on the brink of collapse, Captain Jack Miller of the ruthless Temporal Tactical Corps encounters Allison Carter, a frontline physician gifted with the rare ability of “temporal perception.” A desperate rescue mission triggers an unforeseen deep-binding of their time fields, causing their memories and emotions to intertwine.
Upon returning to New York, they discover that the world is being ravaged by a global “temporal tsunami,” its source a catastrophic “time singularity” born from the accumulated trauma of war. Venturing into the heart of the temporal maelstrom—Kalia—they uncover a startling truth: time has become inflamed by unbearable suffering. Rather than confronting it with weapons, they anchor themselves to one another, using their unwavering love as resonance and stabilizing force, soothing the feral temporal embryo and transforming it into the “Child of Time,” a being capable of healing the world.
Yet the gravest threat emerges from the “Time Pruners”—an ancient force that deems human emotion a pathological flaw and seeks to erase all traces of time itself. To oppose them, Jack and Allison must unite with other souls who “shine in the darkness,” igniting simultaneous emotional imprints of love, courage, and sacrifice across seven global sites of trauma. Only through the purest radiance of humanity can they overcome the cold instrument of absolute reason.
This is a story about mending the wounds of time—and a declaration that love is the highest form of technology. Amid shattered timelines, two warriors, through utterly different paths—his protection and her healing—together compose an epic romance that saves reality, and in doing so, saves one another.

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