He can travel through time. He still can't get anything right.
Matthew Dunsratty knows how to time dive. Through meditation, he can reach back into a younger version of himself and rewrite the past. He’s done it hundreds of times across countless lives. He’s had Shannon, lost her. Had kids, lost them. Made the right call, made the wrong one. And now, in this particular life, he’s spending year twenty in a state hospital for the criminally insane, medicated into a near-coma, being tortured by a guard named Tucker, and eating chocolate green bean surprise every weekday.
His plan to escape — through time, if not through the front door — depends on one thing: getting off his medications long enough to focus. And his means of achieving that depends on Billy Shovellbottom, the new night med tech who keeps offering him warm blankets and wanting something in return.
Matthew knows exactly what he’s doing. He’s not sure it’s going to work. He’s also not sure it matters.
Purgatory’s Best Shot is the second book of Craig Robertson’s Time Diving series — a brilliantly dark, savagely funny, and unexpectedly moving story about a man who has spent so many lives trying to fix his mistakes that he’s lost count of which mistakes were actually his.
Purgatory’s Best Shot is Book 2 of Craig Robertson’s Time Diving series — a standalone-readable, darkly comic exploration of time travel, regret, and the perverse human tendency to make things worse while trying to make them better. Where most time travel stories put their heroes in motion across grand historical events, Robertson keeps Matthew Dunsratty confined to a single psych ward, armed with nothing but a sharp mind, a devastating inner monologue, and a very low opinion of his own chances. The result is one of Robertson’s most intimate and memorable characters — a man who has seen too many of his own lives to be fooled by optimism, but who keeps reaching back anyway. For readers who loved the dark wit of Letters From Hell, Purgatory’s Best Shot deepens the Time Diving world with pitch-black humor and genuine emotional stakes.
