Genre
Techno-thriller
Fast, evidence-driven suspense with an audacious speculative premise.
Anchors of Time
The experiment began in 2013. The novel asks what happens when someone answers.
A techno-thriller about an impossible signal, the people who try to verify it, and the danger of assuming the future knows best.
Manuscript complete. Editing and preparation for publication underway.
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The hook
The first message should have been impossible.
In an Austin research room, a dying man speaks words he could not have known. The instruments record a signal no one can explain. Then the message asks the team to preserve the evidence—for people who have not been born yet.
Evie Harper insists that every extraordinary conclusion survive ordinary failure: bad sensors, contaminated records, prior knowledge, institutional pressure. But each ordinary explanation collapses, and the message leaves the team with a more dangerous question: if someone is reaching backward through time, why did they choose this room—and why now?
Anchors of Time is an accessible, propulsive story of scientific curiosity, contested evidence, faith, power, and the cost of treating history as a system anyone is entitled to optimize.
The mystery
A message no one can explain
A claim that should be impossible, tested by people who know evidence can lie.
Current status
Manuscript complete
Jeffrey Berthiaume is editing and preparing the manuscript for publication. No release date is announced.
Fiction ↔ project
The real idea came first.
The project came first. The novel asks what happens when someone answers.
Publication record
Still being shaped for publication.
Manuscript complete / editing underway
There is no announced publisher, release date or preorder. Confirmed publication details will appear here when there are facts to share.