Winding

#1 Amazon Best Seller in Mystery & Detective#1 Amazon Best Seller in Science Fiction History & Criticism2023 American Book Fest's American Fiction Awards Finalist in Science Fiction2022 Global Book Award's Gold Medal Winner in Science Fiction Romance???????2022 Readers' Favorite Honorable Mention in Time Travel Fiction"e;An engaging SF [sic] tale whose cause-effect plotline takes a licking and keeps on ticking."e;-Kirkus Reviews"e;Avi Datta spins an intricate and inventive sci-fi narrative that engages the mind and merges several interesting themes... The Winding does a fantastic job of portraying the emotions and thoughts of the protagonist through comprehensive internal dialogue."e; -The Manhattan Book Review"e;An intelligent, transporting time-travel tale brimming with music, ideas, emotion, imagination, and possibility. This is a stunner."e; -The BookView ReviewWould you change reality for love?Morally complex, orphan, and absolute genius Vincent Abajian is hellbent to uncover all he can on Artificial Intelligence. His relentless pursuit distracts him from a traumatic childhood loss-his childhood best friend Akane was engulfed in a time-turbulence, a random rift in space and time.But when a beautiful, temperamental, post-doctoral scientist, Emika Amari, joins his Center, everything changes. Vincent is convinced that Akane is inside the irresistible Emika. As they begin a life together, Vincent's past and his connection with a time turbulence survivor challenge everything they've created and push them into a spiral of politics and conspiracy. Vincent's silence to protect Emika threatens to tear them apart. Unknowingly, Emika is torn between what she wants and what Akane wants from her. With his newfound power, Vincent struggles with whether or not he should create another time-turbulence to free Emika from the grasp of Akane once and for all. But will tinkering with time be more destructive than anything he has ever encountered before?