Homebound

It’s 1983, and Becks is counting the days until she can leave Cincinnati behind. Nineteen years old and adrift, she spends her time lost in music on her Walkman and trying not to dwell on the death of her beloved uncle, the only person who ever truly understood her. In the aftermath of his loss, he leaves her something unexpected: a half-finished game, a final collaboration that becomes her way of reaching back toward him. As Becks begins to complete it, she has no idea that what she is building will ripple outward across time, binding together lives she could never have imagined. In a distant future, a scientist, a sentient automaton, and a hardened sea captain find their paths quietly entangled, each searching in their own way for meaning and connection. Their stories, in turn, are drawn into orbit by a mysterious traveler moving through space on an unknown mission. Homebound is a sweeping, time-spanning novel about creation, consequence, and the invisible threads that connect lives across distance and centuries. At once intimate and expansive, it traces humanity’s enduring capacity for love, even in the farthest reaches of the future.