THE EDGE SERIES - BOOK 1

THE LONG SHOT GAMBLE

A HIGH-STAKES SPORTS TECHNOTHRILLER

THE CORE IS BURNING. THE CLOCK IS RUNNING. AND THE WALL IS UNYIELDING.

Thirty feet beneath his quiet home in Hudson, Quebec, quantitative logic expert Paul Sheridan has achieved the impossible: a functioning quantum core capable of bending time. But genius has a devastating tax. The system is screaming toward a Grade-9 thermal saturation, and Paul has exactly forty-eight hours before permanent meltdown. The price to save it? $87,500,000.00 USD.

To engineer the ultimate capital reconstruction, Paul is forced to engage a dangerous, single-use loop, stepping back exactly one year to August 2025. Guided by data, a wardrobe inspired by the effortless style of Paul Newman, and an elite corporate shield, he drops a cool five million dollars on a 30-to-1 NFL underdog futures wager in Las Vegas. But rewriting financial history is a high-wire act where the slightest chronological drift means getting marooned in the past forever.

Worse, Paul is governed by an absolute, terrifying rule: The Biological Hard Floor. He can never travel prior to early 2003—the conception threshold of his twin daughters. To jump any further back to save his late father from terminal illness would completely erase his children from existence.

As the mid-season playoff rush intensifies and the quantum core fractures, Paul must survive a relentless data audit, navigate a volatile corporate landscape, and hide the isolating cost of his double life from Sophie—the brilliant woman whose sharp mind threatens to tear down his emotional firewalls.

He treats time travel like a cold, calculated spreadsheet. But when the Microsecond Wall closes in, Paul is about to learn that some debts cannot be paid in cash.