Time Justice

By Colin O Cox

Time Justice is a cinematic science-fiction novel about time travel, memory, sacrifice, free will, and the danger of trying to save humanity by controlling history.
In the ruined future of Lancaster, California, time travel has become a weapon. Climate collapse, poisoned water, failed technology, and temporal instability have turned the world into a wasteland. Lennox, a hardened operative of the Temporal Security Force, is sent back to stop the First Breach of 2042, the catastrophic experiment that first tore open reality.
But the mission goes wrong. Instead of arriving in 2042, Lennox is thrown into an ancient time-anchor temple, where he discovers that time travel has been damaging reality for far longer than the TSF admits. There he learns of the Anchors, ancient guardians who protected sacred pressure points in time, and encounters Moskiltor, a monstrous creature who was once Corporal Jansen, a TSF test subject abandoned in time.
Lennox soon discovers that the TSF has hidden the human cost of its missions. Commander Hale has manipulated countless timelines, trying to prevent the rise of Luciferous, a dark being born from the First Breach. But every attempt to erase Lennox, whom the TSF calls Subject Zero, only strengthens the paradox around him.
With the help of Ogun, a sentient robotic dog AI who remembers erased timelines, Lennox uncovers the truth: Dr. Elias Vorne's original experiment was not designed merely to travel through time. It was built to overwrite causality and prevent famine, war, ecological collapse, and mass death. Young Lennox's mind was chosen as the stabilizing key because it could survive temporal stress.
The First Breach happened when Vorne's machine connected not to the past, but to a collapsed future. Something inside that dead timeline saw Lennox's desperate desire to end suffering and used him as a doorway. That entity became Luciferous.
Luciferous is not simply an outside monster. He is the dark conclusion of humanity's longing to end pain by controlling choice. He tempts Lennox with a perfect timeline where no one suffers, no one dies too soon, and everyone lost is restored. But King Justice reveals the hidden cost: such a world has no freedom, no memory, no growth, and no soul.
Lennox also faces Wrathborn, a brutal future version of himself who believes mercy is weakness and that only ruthless correction can stop Luciferous. Through Wrathborn, Lennox sees the future he may become if he sacrifices compassion in order to win.
In the final act, Lennox returns to the true origin point: the 2042 laboratory before the First Breach. He confronts Vorne, Hale, young Lennox, and Luciferous. He realizes he did not create Luciferous through evil, but through desperation. Guilt is not the same as responsibility, and Lennox chooses responsibility.
King Justice makes the ultimate sacrifice by deleting himself from the temporal record, breaking the memory loop that allows Luciferous to survive across erased timelines. In the heart of the breach, Lennox defeats Luciferous not through force, but by accepting the grief and desire that created him while denying him control.
Lennox prevents young Lennox from becoming Subject Zero and convinces Vorne to destroy the portal research. The First Breach never happens. As time rewrites itself, older Lennox vanishes from history. No one remembers him as the man who saved time.
In the new 2050, Lancaster is no longer a poisoned wasteland. The skies are clean, communities thrive, renewable systems work, and time travel exists only as a forbidden ethical danger. At a market, a young boy finds an old robotic dog toy whose eyes glow faintly blue. Without knowing why, he names it King Justice.
Time has been saved, but time still remembers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H71WY899
• ISBN13: 9798184953137
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 410 Pages
• Weight: 2.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.5" x 11.0"