Love +/- Time

2026

Genre: Literary Fiction

Sub Genre: Philosophical Literary Romance

A relationship lived at full force, where desire, doubt, and time push love to its limit.

Synopsis: Love +/- Time

Author: Gary Marks

In this heartfelt novel about love and destiny, Aaron believes in a world full of possibilities, including the rare possibility that love can occasionally defeat time.

His muse—the person he fell in love with from the moment he met her —is Hanna, a Swiss-born natural blonde with an angelic beauty that's clear to everyone but her.

Hanna is street smart, practical, and more than a little skeptical that love can last forever. But she decides to try to "win the game" with him.

From their first meeting in Amsterdam to their years together in Northern California, Aaron and Hanna try, each in their own way, to preserve what they have.

But love is not always expressed in the language the other person understands. Acts of devotion can look like distance. Sacrifices can look like indifference. Good intentions can create confusion where certainty once existed.

Whether love can survive misunderstanding and the pressures that accumulate over years is a question every couple who hopes to beat time must answer for themselves.

This novel is about connection, distance, longing, missed moments, and the fragile choices that shape a life —and sometimes hold it together.

Because while Love +/- Time is a calculation that too often ends badly, time may not always get the final word.