"Twin Lakes Novel" is my love letter to science fiction, the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and the strange ways grief can bend a life. If you enjoy a character-driven sci-fi thriller that actually cares about people as much as paradoxes, this time travel thriller novel from Nevada was written with you in mind.

The story opens as World War II winds down. A brilliant German scientist risks everything to defect, carrying his creation: AVD-1, a time-bending machine more dangerous than any bomb. With the help of a covert OSS agent and a U.S. Army lieutenant, he vanishes into the wilderness. To keep AVD-1 from both German operatives and future governments, he and the device are erased from history and buried deep in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. That's where my historical espionage time travel novel takes its sharp turn into mystery.

Decades later, in modern-day Nevada, Daryl - a grieving widower just trying to survive himself - buys a quiet lakeside place. He discovers the island in the middle of his lake doesn't quite belong to the same moment as everything else. The island is concealed in alternate time, and when he steps onto it, past and future bleed into the present. Reality fractures. My Nevada wilderness time travel book stops being theoretical and becomes very personal.

April, the scientist's granddaughter, steps out of the long shadow of family secrets to help Daryl understand what AVD-1 has done. As they piece together the truth behind this WWII secret science fiction story, the CIA and new German agents close in. "Twin Lakes Novel" becomes a survival and morality sci-fi book set in Nevada, where someone will have to stay behind to shut down the machine - and no one knows what that sacrifice really means.

If you like a surprise twist ending in science fiction, a novel about a lake concealed in time, and fiction set in the Sierra Nevada Mountains with an emotional character arc at the center, this indie sci-fi novel, "Twin Lakes Novel," is ready for you to dive in.