Jarius “Jars” Mason has decided to give Fate a run for her money. As the highly successful founder and CEO of Synapzius, a cutting-edge biotechnology firm, he finds himself disenchanted with life. Despite his position and wealth, two failed marriages and two children wanting nothing to do with him have left him jaded. Now, Synapzius’ recent inroads in nanotechnology spark Jars’ imagination as to a possible way out of the lethargy that dogs at his heels, threatening to pull him under, down to where despair lurks in the dark corners of his being.
By no means spiritual, Jars questions if there is anything to any of the world’s religions. For him, quantum physics is easier to sort through than the various claims presented as fact in the holy writings of the would-be-gods of the universe. If there were a God out there, He would have to make himself known and come after him because Jars is about to tempt fate daily. Despair wants him and has made itself known—loudly. If there is a competing interest for his soul, it had better speak up soon because Jars has just invented a device that could end his life on any given day.
Entering each day as if it might prove his last sets Jars on a radically new trajectory, one laden with unforeseeable twists and turns…
Portals focuses on Jesse Whitestone, a heartbroken widower who is offered a supernatural chance at changing the past and saving his late wife while simultaneously meeting and being attracted to Savannah—a sweet, smart, green-eyed blonde who loves veggie pizza.
The novel explores a question pondered by many: If I could change the past, would I?
For Jesse, the question isn’t rhetorical. His wife, Ellen, drowned in Stillman’s Lake while the couple were celebrating their sixth anniversary. The trauma leads to soul-searching, a struggle to make sense of what strikes Jesse as senseless. Now, three years later, Jesse is given a chance to go back and change the events of that fateful day when he finds himself lured into the portals room, the fantastic, other-worldly domain of Tsor whose identity is, for a time, a mystery. It is in the portals room that Tsor offers Jesse an opportunity to change the past, to undo the worst day of his life.
Is there a God that can be trusted with the grief and pain associated with such inexplicable loss or should Jesse take Tsor up on his offer, seize the opportunity and control his own destiny?