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RIFT - debut novel by M Nathan Robinson

What happens when a couple on the brink of divorce meet themselves again as newlyweds? In my debut novel, RIFT (available on Amazon) I finally tell the story I had in my head for nearly twenty years. It is the story of Daniel and Katherine Jacobs, a middle-aged couple on the brink of divorce when a rift in space-time puts them face-to-face with themselves as a young couple starting out. The Idea The idea came to me in the middle of the night in the summer of 2004 when my wife and I were staying at a lake house. I woke up to go to the bathroom and from the window noticed a dense fog blanketing the property. When a car passed by on the nearby road, its headlights lit up the the atmosphere and flooded the bathroom with a blinding light. The scene seemed other-worldly and I imagined the car pulling down our driveway, arriving from some time in the distant past. That was the kernel, and once I committed to start writing it nearly a decade later, the characters, scenes, dialogue and themes ...

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