When their budding adolescent romance one winter night on a frozen river in northern Minnesota is shattered by a sudden tragedy, two young lovers are hurled onto separate paths that in all probability should never meet again. But in a rare coincidence, a second tragedy twenty years later reunites them in the afterlife, where it is revealed that time does not flow in a single line. It follows a three-dimensional, constantly dividing and diverging course. Each of those diverging streams houses its own unique reality. And somewhere in time, every possibility becomes reality—every cherished dream comes true.

As they navigate a lattice of parallel lives—encountering versions of themselves tempered by different experiences and altered by decisions as small as the crinkle of a nose—they confront the mysteries of life that lie hidden from the living. How valid is fate when probability is infinite? And can a love first kindled in innocence find its way home through the multidimensional labyrinth of time?

Intimate and expansive, Diverging Streams marries young love and second chances with quantum wonder, grounding mind-bending possibility in the fragile choices that make us who we are. Award-winning author, Earl L Carlson delivers a story as emotionally resonant as it is intellectually daring—where science quickens the mind and the heart learns to navigate what might have been.