Fractured Echoes

In a world decimated by The Hormonal Plague, 90% of women are gone-and with them, the balance of civilization. Civilization teeters on the edge of collapse, and with no hope for natural balance, the solution becomes clear-and ethically dangerous: time travel. The Temporal Retrieval Initiative, once a humanitarian project, now functions as a ruthless operation plucking women moments before their untimely deaths throughout history to repopulate the future.
Officially, it's about saving humanity. Unofficially, it's about control-and profit. Shatner Barnes, a brilliant yet disillusioned time retrieval agent, discovers that he was betrayed by the agency director, Ramses. Ramses, obsessed with monopolizing time travel, sabotaged Shatner's mission to remove him from existence and grant exclusive access to the world's elite-men who can handpick wives from the past like prizes.
Reed, desperate to save his wife and child from dying in a catastrophic accident, made a dark pact with Ramses. The lives of his loved ones for the price of tipping the future into authoritarianism. When a mysterious figure from Shatner's past returns from a rogue timeline-his best friend, altered and aged-they bring with them a buried truth, and a second chance. Armed with forbidden knowledge, Shatner must risk breaking time itself to stop Ramses, undo Reed's time manipulation.
But in a world where the past is property, how far can one man go to reclaim what was stolen. without becoming the very thing he swore to destroy?