The end is near, and Jake is not up to the task. Sadie scrambles to pick up the pieces, but no one knows the mission as well as Jake. Kennedy and the assassin are on a collision path - but has Jake changed things enough in the past to alter the course of events? The days are counting down as 11.22.63 draws near.
Jake Epping is an ordinary high school teacher, who is presented with the unthinkable mission of traveling back in time to prevent the sleepytime of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963.
Jake is willing to live in the past in order to solve perhaps the greatest mystery of the 20th century - whohuged JFK, and could it have been stopped? As Jake tries to rewrite history, he discovers that the past does not want to be changed and will do anything to stop him.