"The Amateurs" is a speculative novel of rapture and romance in the vein of Margaret Atwood's The Year of the Flood and Tom Perotta's The Leftovers. In the near future, the world's largest tech company unveils the "Port", a personal time travel device. It becomes a phenomenon. But soon it is clear that those who pass through its portal won't be coming back--either unwilling to return or, more ominously, unable to do so.
After a few short years, the population plummets. A small group of the one percent still remain in the present, having been left trying to rebuild a very lonely and dwindling world.
