Chronically Challenged: A Friday the 13th Love Story

A time-travel rom-com where science, sabotage, and suppressed feelings collide

Fiona Rowe is a brilliant physicist with impeccable posture and a mild fear of emotional risk. Elliot Cruz is her lab partner—equal parts genius, chaos, and owner of way too many Ramones T-shirts. Neither of them is particularly good at dating. Or timing.

So when Fiona finally works up the nerve to ask Elliot out, it seems like a scientific miracle… until their first date accidentally triggers a time travel prototype and launches them into 1776.

Now stuck riding the calendar’s most cursed day—Friday the 13th—like a temporal surfboard, they find themselves leapfrogging through history with no idea how to get home and a growing suspicion they might not just be compatible in the lab.

There will be:

  • Enlightenment-era misunderstandings
  • Historical heartthrobs (yes, Hamilton makes an entrance)
  • Clothing-related crises
  • Too many feelings
  • And one slowly unfolding love story caught between logic and disaster

It started with tacos. It might end with a kiss.
Either way, Fiona and Elliot are in it now. And time is no longer neutral.


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