The Bridge Protocol

After his daughter is killed in a school shooting, physicist David Dobbs builds a revolutionary time-travel device: the Bridge--and disappears into history, determined to reach the one moment that might save her life. Each jump is a calculated risk. His first stop: Boston, 1768, where he hides under an assumed identity, waiting thirteen years for the next bridge point. From there, David crosses to Revolutionary-era Virginia and walks through a battlefield under the protection of General George Washington. Then: the Mongol Empire. A candle-lit Tibetan temple. The Hippie Trail of the 1970s. Pirates. The eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Each leap is harder than the last.  David trades gold for shelter, fights off bandits, and survives alone for years at a time. He’s stalked across centuries by a corrupt billionaire who hijacked the Bridge technology to alter history for profit, leaving timelines scarred by war, ecological collapse, and mass extinction. In 1906, David finds himself trapped, having missed his next bridge. There, he meets a woman who turns out to be his daughter, grown and brilliant, who survived in an alternate future and traveled back to find him. Together, they must stop the collapse of time itself. To save her, David will sacrifice everything—including the life he’s spent decades trying to reclaim.