Detective Ashley O'Neal didn't want the case — not so close to the holidays, not with her family slipping through her fingers one argument at a time. But when a young boy is murdered and a man confesses without hesitation, the investigation turns into something far stranger than she expected.

Cale Henderson is calm, tired, and disturbingly kind. He claims to have seen the future — not just one version of it, but all its twisting, branching possibilities — and in every one, Mason Jones becomes a killer. A real one. A monster. Cale says he ended that future before it could begin.

Ashley doesn't believe in psychics. She believes in evidence, motive, confession. But as Cale offers eerie details no one should know and points her toward things that haven't happened yet, Ashley finds herself pulled into a deeper, darker question:

If you knew someone would destroy lives... could you stop them in time?

A gripping psychological novelette of crime, morality, and time's fragile branches, A Tree in Time examines what it means to see — and change — the future.