Jasmine (Fracture of Yesterday)

At 44, Luke Mercer is a man built from ghosts and discipline. A former Marine, he moves through life like a shadow stitched together by routine, duty, and the echo of a night that never stopped happening. Two decades earlier, his wife Jasmine, a luminous aspiring actress with a laugh that could disarm a storm, was killed during a seemingly random mugging. One violent moment turned Luke’s world into a permanent aftershock. But Luke has found something impossible. Buried within a covert experimental program tied to his military past, he discovers a temporal displacement device. Not a clean, elegant machine, but something unstable, half-understood, like holding lightning in a cracked glass bottle. It doesn’t send you anywhere safely. It throws you into the past like a stone through still water and hopes the ripples don’t drown you.