
Simultaneous
A Novel
Flatiron Books · Print & ebook · October 28, 2025
A mind-bending speculative thriller where past lives collide with present danger and the truth follows you across every timeline.
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- Who it’s for
- A tense, reality-bending thriller where fractured memories and past lives complicate the hunt for a killer.
- Genres
- Supernatural Thrillers, Time Travel Fiction, Sci-Fi Crime
- Published
- Flatiron Books, October 28, 2025
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A mind-bending speculative thriller where past lives collide with present danger and the truth follows you across every timeline. Federal agent Grant Lukather works in a shadow division of Homeland Security known only as Predictive Analytics, a unit trained to detect catastrophic events before they occur. When an anonymous tip warns of a deadly explosion in New Mexico, the case quickly spirals into something no model or agent has ever prepared for.
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Grant’s search leads him to Sarah Newcomb, a therapist whose unusual method of past-life hypnosis has revealed something impossible: a pattern connecting her patients to crimes happening right now. As Grant investigates a disturbing copycat murder in Colorado, the two uncover a phenomenon that stretches across multiple states, multiple timelines, and multiple versions of the same lives. With the help of Sarah’s most troubled patient, they form an unlikely trio navigating shifting realities, fractured memories, and a killer who seems to exist everywhere at once. Time is folding in on itself. Identities are merging. And every choice they make in one life echoes dangerously into the next. From the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of "Arrival," Simultaneous delivers: Stunning reveals and reality-bending twists A tense, race-against-time serial-killer mystery A supernatural edge rooted in fate, free will, and the weight of past lives Characters whose connections deepen across lifetimes Perfect for fans of early Dean Koontz, Blake Crouch, and mind-twisting supernatural thrillers. If your past is chasing you, how far can you run when it knows your future? “A twisty, mind-bending thriller that will keep you guessing until the final gut punch.” —Leigh Bardugo
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A tense, reality-bending thriller where fractured memories and past lives complicate the hunt for a killer.
Come here for
- A serial-killer mystery with timelines that refuse to stay put
- Questions of fate, free will, and who you might have been
Expect
- Shifting identities and lives linked across timelines
- A crime-driven read with a supernatural edge
Where it sits
| Time Travel Fiction | 70% |
|---|---|
| Supernatural Thrillers | 41% |
| Sci-Fi Crime | 38% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Sci-Fi Crime
- Supernatural Thrillers
- Multiple-Timeline Fiction
- Authors
- Eric Heisserer, Marin Ireland, Ray Porter
- Publisher
- Flatiron Books
- Published
- October 28, 2025
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Sci-Fi Crime