Logline
A man facing terminal illness trains the mind, steps through a Tesla quantum time-crystal watch into 1968 Las Vegas, and finds that love is the only constant that survives the crossing.
Placement
This book is not a sequel and not Book Zero of the Billy Thinx numbering. It is the origin text: memoir, speculative fiction, and spiritual inquiry in one voice. It should stand first as a personal testament, not last as an explanation.
Later works speak from inside the architecture this book reveals. Read first, it is a confession. Read last, it risks becoming an appendix.
Lore
A man facing terminal prostate cancer does not wait for the last hour. He trains the mind, then steps through a Tesla quantum time-crystal watch into 1968 Las Vegas. He meant to beat a bookie with a future he already knew. He met Time Masters instead — Jerod and Navi — and a Creator who would not be dodged.
In this universe, time is local. Time Masters do not travel the Thread; they tend the hours it folds. You may move through a clock. You may not own it. The Time Blanket is what happens when a man tries to wear that hour as a coat. Love is the only constant that survives the crossing.
The last pages do not turn this into a prequel lecture. They hand it forward: a geologist, a mining hole in Colorado, marks on the wall. Billy Thinx begins where this confession ends. The book stands alone.
Let it stand. Do not subordinate it.