Armel St. Louis is a man with no recorded past, haunted by memories of friendship, family and young love lost during a brutal conflict more than two and a half centuries ago. Without consultation or consent, he’s transported through time by a mysterious Mi’kmaq shaman to protect a young person he’s never met, a troubled woman born in modern times, living under difficult circumstances and she may be the only family he’s got left.

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Most people say she’s autistic but not in front Andre, her uncle and legal guardian. Andre insists that Notte’s twice blessed but she’s not a communicator and very few people have experienced that remarkable part of Notte’s obscure intellect.

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Fate, quantum physics and the mysterious shaman all play a role in delivering Armel to Notte’s rescue during the brutal murder of her beloved uncle Andre, setting off a sequence of events taking both Armel and Notte across international borders as each learns more than they ever cared or dared to know about family, gangsters, history and quantum physics.

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A sweeping blend of time travel, supernatural suspense, and psychological thriller, Pay Back What You Owe tells a story of blood, memory, survival, and vengeance, tasking readers to reconsider eternal themes of love, sacrifice, corruption and mortality, surprisingly cast against the emergent theme of artificial intelligence.