He surrendered himself to protect the people he loves. Now he’s in a fight to hang onto his sanity, his brother, and a world on the edge of chaos.
When Jackson gave himself up to the secret organization that’s been collecting and studying time travelers for decades, he hoped to find his long-lost brother and some miraculous way they could both escape.
Instead, he finds a terrifying descent into the kind of awful only a brilliantly twisted mind could devise. These are experiments designed to trigger and control a person who can jump ten minutes back in time when sufficiently traumatized.
It pushes Jackson to discover the roots of his power and its restrictions. But each answer brings new questions. And the revelations when he finally finds his brother turn everything upside down again. New reality. New morality. New responsibilities…on a deadly, international level.
When Lena, Kansas, and the other people who have organized to find and rescue him do track him down, will they even recognize the thing he has become?
Fuse is the third book in the fast-paced Jackson Traine series and the thrilling conclusion to Jackson’s hunt for his brother.
He surrendered himself to protect the people he loves. Now he’s in a fight to hang onto his sanity, his brother, and a world on the edge of chaos.
When Jackson gave himself up to the secret organization that’s been collecting and studying time travelers for decades, he hoped to find his long-lost brother and some miraculous way they could both escape.
Instead, he finds a terrifying descent into the kind of awful only a brilliantly twisted mind could devise. These are experiments designed to trigger and control a person who can jump ten minutes back in time when sufficiently traumatized.
It pushes Jackson to discover the roots of his power and its restrictions. But each answer brings new questions. And the revelations when he finally finds his brother turn everything upside down again. New reality. New morality. New responsibilities…on a deadly, international level.
When Lena, Kansas, and the other people who have organized to find and rescue him do track him down, will they even recognize the thing he has become?
Fuse is the third book in the fast-paced Jackson Traine series and the thrilling conclusion to Jackson’s hunt for his brother.
This was what my limited time travel ability had brought me to. While Dr. Bent’s minions marched me out of the US Capitol basement through one set of hallways, the four pieces of my heart who’d been held at gunpoint walked shakily out a different exit and parted ways.
My sister, Kansas, called an Uber to get back to the apartment she’d been snatched from twelve days earlier.
My treacherous best friend, Jude Spiegelman, found his car and drove back to the George Bush Center for Intelligence, AKA CIA headquarters, across the river in Langley, Virginia.
The love of my life, Lena Cortland, let another minion of Bent drive her to the airport for a flight back to Seattle. My office administrator, Megan, went with her.
Colonel Jian and the supposedly-shot-dead Wenling? I’ll cover them later.
What’s critical to understand at this point is that when psychiatrist Dr. Uwe Bent tricked the people I cared about most deeply into becoming pawns in his game, he exposed not only my vulnerability but his evil. It gave Lena, Kansas, Megan, and Jude a clear villain to fight.
If they chose to.
And because each one of their choices had a huge impact on how everything turned out, I’m breaking my convention of telling you only things I experienced directly. Instead, I’m mixing together things I learned after the fact with what I know of the key people involved to add their perspectives to this narrative.
Their chapters have their names as titles.
All the other chapters are my personal experiences.
Clear?
Good. Because we’re starting the big wrap-up of this saga with the non-me perspective of Dr. Lena Cortland.
As a beautiful, half-Persian doctor of theoretical physics, a professor at Berkley, and the researcher who was finally unraveling a quantum explanation of time travel, she was not a woman to be cowed by naked displays of power.
Equally important was how she and I had pretty much owned each other’s hearts from the first moment she sat in on one of my university lectures about PTSD.
If there was anyone who was going to fight for me, it was her.
I was listening to a book on Amazon Audible and I didn't catch something, so I hit the rewind button. Now, this button allows me to go back 10 seconds. But the protagonist in Fuse by Terry Hayman can go back 10 minutes. Let me rephrase that, Jackson Traine, psychologist and part-time college professor, has the ability to go back in time. 10 minutes at a time.
Oh, the things one could do with this ability! But what happens when others learn of this great gift? Will it be a blessed miracle or a waking nightmare? Let me tell you, poor Jackson isn't feeling very blessed at the moment. He is literally fighting for his sanity; his brother; the woman he loves; and well you know the very world.
It would seem that a secret society that studies time travelers has gotten a hold of Jackson. They have been conducting the most horrendous experiments on him. Their endgame is to push Jackson as far as they can to explore and expand the limits of his gift.
Fuse is the third book in the Jackson Traine series. Just in case you haven't had the pleasure of reading any of the other books: Jackson Traine is a psychologist as well as a part time teacher at the University of Washington. He meets the lovely Lena Cortland and falls madly in love. In the meantime, a freak lab accident causes Jackson to achieve the ability to time travel. Downside, his time traveling only occurs during traumatic experiences. Which is why it's hard being the subject of experiments by the secret society. Because they are traumatizing (ie. scaring the bejesus out of him) in the process. I could really empathize with the animal test subjects that humans experiment on after reading this.
Jackson is a character that readers can identify with. He's introverted, he has social anxiety disorders, and he suffers from PTSD. And just like you and me, there's nothing he wouldn't do to protect the people that he loves. But will this be his undoing? Find out as Jackson "grows into his destiny," and takes out one slightly unhinged dangerous douchbag who wants all the power.
Dive into this latest installment in the Jackson Traine series. Traverse multiple timelines and skim the surface of the mulitverse with Jackson, one jump at a time in Fuse by Terry Hayman.