A reflective, clean time-travel romance about love, limits, and what we choose to build after loss.
In 1909, a thirty-year-old experimental physicist proposes at a summer festival. Hours later, a late-night motorcar ends the future he imagined. He completes his time machine and returns again and again to prevent the tragedy, yet each attempt changes the cause while the outcome remains. Accepting that the past holds a fixed point, he makes one last journey-not to rescue, but to keep a single day and say what matters-then dismantles the machine and devotes his life to humane inventions that give time back to others.
A Hundred Ways to Midnight: A Love I Could Not Save is a calm, first-person narrative told by the inventor at ninety-five. Minimal dialogue, Edwardian setting, gentle tone, and a hopeful, earned ending.