So...since people are talking about their books and I need more posts, I'll ask some questions mine brought up. In my novel, A Shortcut in Time, the main character Josh discovers, go figure, a shortcut in time. There's a lot that goes on, but for your sake I'll cut this really short. In the end, Josh and his daughter Penny go back to 1918 and when they're both back, their lives have completely changed. Josh is married to someone different than before and they have no children, so Penny doesn't exist. Penny says that the sheriff wanted to marry her, so that's why she decided to return to her own time. And that's how the story ends. So the biggest question of course is what happens? Do they go back and change it again until they get their old lives back? But my philosophical question for you all is this: if it was destiny that they go back to 1918 so that Penny could marry the sheriff, why wasn't it also destiny that she not marry him that time? Or if it was, was it destiny that their lives be altered that way, too? These questions may be too jumbled to make sense, but if you can, let me know what you think.