Letters From Hell
Matt Dunsratty has discovered the cure for regret. He can change his past.
It seemed like a good idea at the time.
By projecting his adult consciousness into his younger self, Matt can correct what he considers to be the mistakes that shaped his life. Missed opportunities. Bad decisions. Women he could have loved. Every trip backward gives him another chance to finally get things right.
But there’s one unyielding barrier to fulfilling his wishes.
Every change he makes creates a different Matt.
Soon one seemingly harmless correction demands another, and then another. Matt discovers that his increasingly frantic alterations to the past can erase marriages, children, friendships—and entire futures. And once he’s tasted such power, the temptation to keep meddling becomes irresistible.
Whether it’s saving John Lennon’s life or altering his best friend’s path to self-destruction, Matt discovers that the road to Hell isn’t merely paved with good intentions. Matt is building his own personal Hell—one correction at a time.
Letters From Hell is a darkly funny, wildly whiplashing time-travel novel about regret and unintended consequences. Most of all, it’s the story of one ordinary man’s catastrophic determination to make everything better—and how he continually achieves the exact opposite.
Every. Single. Time.
Regret is the eighth deadly sin. Matt Dunsratty learns it through trial and error.
He’s a tired high-school science teacher counting down to retirement, a man who can barely walk past a memory without flinching at the choices he made there. The girl he froze in front of at fourteen. The friend he failed. The career he never chased.
Then, on a slow summer afternoon, he tries an experiment so ridiculous it’s almost a joke — and his meditation lands him inside the head of his own teenage self. One whispered suggestion later, the past starts to bend. So does Matt.
Because regret, it turns out, isn’t a feeling you correct. It’s a hunger you feed.
Welcome to the Mattverse.
