A complete novel
Syncing Forward
The original award winning time travel novel.
After being injected with a drug that slows his body, Martin James tries to stop his journey to the future before everyone he loves is gone.
Science fiction by W. Lawrence
Two stories.One fractured future.
Syncing Forward and Syncing Back can be read in either order. One follows Martin James as time carries him away from everyone he loves. The other follows Amara James as she hunts the people who destroyed her family.
Read either story first.
The books
Choose where to begin.
Each story stands on its own. Read either first.
Syncing Back
One story in three acts.
Amara James was nine when her father was attacked. A decade later she is a new recruit for the Department of Homeland Defense, already in over her head.
Amara's story unfolds across three acts.
Syncing Back follows Amara as she hunts the people responsible for destroying her family. The three acts form one continuing story, with Act 3 planned for 2027.
Act 3, coming 2027
The final act
The trilogy concludes with Amara identifying the head of Millennial, and her father's cure is within reach. But Amara created a monster along the way, and it won't be satisfied until it rules the world.
About W. Lawrence
Flawed characters. Impossible choices.
W. Lawrence's debut novel, Syncing Forward, reached number one in Amazon's Time Travel category and remained a Top 10 Amazon UK novel for almost a year.
Its audiobook won a SOVAS Award for Best Fiction Narrator, with voice actor Will Damron delivering an emotional gut punch. With a second novel on the way, everything appeared to be heading to the top. Tragedy struck in 2017, plunging Lawrence and his family into a drama fit for the page, and one that soon will be. Ten years later, he returned to the keyboard, with multiple novels now completed and many more on the way.
Born in San Francisco, California, Lawrence moved two dozen times before settling in Pennsylvania. He has written for gaming supplements and webtoons and worked as a writing coach, but his real love is sharing rich stories about flawed characters.
Amazon Time TravelSyncing Forward reached number one in the category.
SOVAS AwardThe audiobook won Best Fiction Narrator.
Press and reviews
Further reading.
Interviews, audiobook coverage and independent reviews from the science fiction and reading community.
A moment in Syncing Forward's history
An Amazon bestseller.
Syncing Forward reached No. 76 in the paid Kindle Store and No. 1 in three Time Travel and Dystopian category listings.
