Seven Years From Tomorrow by John L. Thompson
A speculative mystery of second chances, fate, and everything left to lose.
When fifty-three-year-old Jack Soladay learns he has eighteen months to live, he must confront a lifetime of regrets filled with poor choices, failed relationships, lost opportunities, and the family he abandoned.
After one last night of drinking, Jack gives his remaining cash to a homeless man, believing it a trivial act of kindness. By morning, everything has changed.
Jack awakens in 1990, nineteen years old again, armed with the knowledge of everything to come. Convinced he has a second chance, he sets out to create the perfect future, determined to make the right choices and avoid past mistakes.
But fate has different plans.
As the years go by, Jack embarks on a perplexing journey through one timeline after another, waking up in various years of his life with no understanding of why. Each new beginning offers hope or possible horrific consequences.
Then there’s the mysterious woman who appears at the most unexpected moments. Their encounters are brief and often insignificant, yet she sometimes surfaces throughout Jack’s journey.
Haunted by a mysterious panhandler, pursued by unanswerable questions, and racing against forces beyond his comprehension, Jack must uncover the truth before he loses himself forever. Because sometimes a second chance isn’t a gift.
It’s a life sentence.
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Author Bio:
John L. Thompson was born in Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan, and settled in New Mexico in 1986 after spending much of his early life traveling throughout the United States and abroad. He worked as a diesel mechanic and professional truck driver before turning his attention to writing and graphic design.
His fiction and artwork have appeared in publications including Yellow Mama, Shotgun Honey, and Runewright. In 2013, he founded Dead Guns Press, an independent publisher dedicated to crime fiction and the Hardboiled anthology series. His novel Truck Stop hit the shelves in 2018, followed by Monkey Wrench in 2022.
Since 2015, Thompson has designed more than twenty-seven covers for Barry Sadler’s Casca: The Eternal Mercenary series, written by Tony Roberts, along with dozens of covers for other authors and publishers. In 2025, he became co-author of the series, beginning with Casca #64: The Guardian.
He lives in New Mexico and continues to write speculative mysteries, crime fiction, and suspense novels.