Run Toward Ruin

Short Description

Seventeen-year-old Darius is handed an impossible gift: the power to travel back in time and undo the injury that crippled his grandfather. It should have fixed everything. Instead, it breaks the present for everyone else. Still bound to the old man’s ruthless ambition, Darius must unravel a fractured timeline and a sinister plot—before the broken past hardens into a horrible present.

Long Synopsis

Every year, the five families gather for a conclave to determine the affairs of the Prince they have served for generations. While the families debate the work of the coming year, Darius’s crippled grandfather pursues a far darker goal: overthrowing the Prince and seizing power for himself. Trapped in the old man’s service, seventeen-year-old Darius sees no way to escape the life that has been chosen for him.

Then a rare celestial event changes everything. The teenagers of the five families discover they can slip back into the past, witnessing significant moments in their history. Hoping to prune away the rot and gain a new life, Darius makes what feels like a harmless change—he prevents the injury that left the old man crippled.

Instead of creating a better future, he destroys the present he knew. His grandfather remains a formidable and ruthless man. The balance between the five families fractures. And the Prince’s power stands on a precipice.

Darius must work alongside his peers to find the right fix, but nobody trusts the reckless fool who broke it all. At the same time he can’t ignore the repercussions of his grandfather’s coup.

Part thriller, part adventure, Run Toward Ruin is a fast-paced tale of time travel, political intrigue, and impossible choices where every step toward the truth risks making the future even worse. In the end, Darius must answer one haunting question: Can you ever escape your fate, or do the smallest acts carry the power to damn you to worse consequences?