Escaping Fate

Action! Adventure! Time Travel! Extraterrestrial firefights, postapocalyptic air-land battles, football, martial arts and unapologetic testosterone!

Follow a boy on his journey to manhood through space and time, navigating an obstacle course through friendships, girls, leadership lessons…and an invisible dimension-hopping death squad.

Pete Bedauern began his life as a latchkey kid in a run-down trailer park with a single mom, living on stale hot dog buns and bleak prospects. Those were the cards Fate had dealt him, and Pete was on a life path that would lead to a meaningless existence full of failure and despair. Then Pete’s estranged uncle burst on the scene and punched Fate in the mouth.

Uncle Si is a hard drinker; painfully blunt; a little mysterious and maybe even scary, but takes an interest in his nephew that Pete’s father never took. Most of Uncle Si’s life is a secret, but through the part of it he shares, Pete undergoes a master course on life, love, and full-contact sports.

As it turns out, Uncle Si not only has tons of money, multiple businesses, a fleet of aircraft and fast cars–Pete will learn more about history than he ever imagined because, as it turns out, Uncle Si also has a time machine.

Paradox is one good-hearted-but-alienated boy’s journey into manhood, and Escaping Fate is the opening leg of that trip. Before it’s complete, Pete will learn the guarded secrets of history, take on a pan-continuum conspiracy, crack the code for success with women…and maybe even save the world.

Well, one world, at least…