Here are fifty-four time travel books published in August that have come to our attention, although there are probably many more. Happy reading!
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The Bell That Shatters the World
Matthew Sheehy
8/1/2017, Military
Phil Landry is a computer technician in the ’90’s who decided it would be a great idea to start his own computer business, and now he needed clientele. An ad in the local paper receives a response from an older man who had never owned a computer before, Phil’s favorite type of customer. He builds him a killer system and delivers it to his home for setup and instruction, and Phil’s life changes from that moment.
Leopold Oberheim is from Germany, and Leopold Oberheim has a history that extends to the present from World War Two. A history that connects to the Nazi Party. An organization who’s history, despite popular belief, did not end with the close of the war.
Now this simple computer tech-businessman is pulled into a labyrinth of secrets, espionage, science and romance. He and Leopold must now uncover who is watching them and why, how Leopold’s past has returned, and what it is these mysterious people want from them.
The answers involve the literal manipulation of time and reality and the secret machines the Nazis were developing to win the war and imprison the entire world. Only Phil and his band of soldiers can go back in time and stop the present-day Nazis from changing the outcome of World War Two.
A Big Day for Baseball (Magic Treehouse Series, Book 29)
Mary Pope Osborne
8/1/2017, Children, Fantasy
Meet Jackie Robinson and solve a mystery in the #1 bestselling Magic Tree House chapter book series!
PLAY BALL! Jack and Annie aren’t great baseball players . . . yet! Then Morgan the librarian gives them magical baseball caps that will make them experts. They just need to wear the caps to a special ballgame in Brooklyn, New York. The magic tree house whisks them back to 1947!
When they arrive, Jack and Annie find out that they will be batboys in the game—not ballplayers. What exactly does Morgan want them to learn? And what’s so special about this game? They only have nine innings to find out!
Future Tense (Days of Future Past Trilogy, Book 3)
John Van Stry
8/1/2017, Science Fiction
Since being brought forward in time to the post apocalyptic wastelands of what was once his home, life has been pretty hard on Paul. Though it has had two good points, namely Sarah and Heather. But now Coyote wants him to take care of the task that he was brought here to deal with in the first place: Aybem.
While it has always been clear that destroying Aybem is supposed to be Riggs’ job, Coyote remains unconvinced that Riggs can do it without Paul’s help. After seeing just what Riggs is capable of doing, Paul isn’t as convinced that he needs to be there, but he also knows he’s not going to get any choice in the matter.
And of course, just what does happen to you once Coyote no longer needs your help?
This is the last book in the Days of the Future Past trilogy, a story of a young man brought forward in time because he came to the attention of Coyote, who thought that the gods’ chosen hero just might need some help
A Man of Shadows (Nyquist Mystery Series)
Jeff Noon
8/1/2017, Science Fiction/Mystery
Below the neon skies of Dayzone – where the lights never go out, and night has been banished – lowly private eye John Nyquist takes on a teenage runaway case. His quest takes him from Dayzone into the permanent dark of Nocturna.
As the vicious, seemingly invisible serial killer known only as Quicksilver haunts the streets, Nyquist starts to suspect that the runaway girl holds within her the key to the city’s fate. In the end, there’s only one place left to search: the shadow-choked zone known as Dusk.
Sparks of Light (Into the Dim, Book 2)
Janet B. Taylor
8/1/2017, Young Adult, Science Fiction/Romance
For the first time in her life, Hope Walton has friends . . . and a (maybe) boyfriend. She’s a Viator, a member of a long line of time-traveling ancestors. When the Viators learn of a plan to steal a dangerous device from the inventor Nikola Tesla, only a race into the past can save the natural timeline from utter destruction. Navigating the glitterati of The Gilded Age in 1895 New York City, Hope and her crew will discover that high society can be as deadly as it is beautiful.
In this sequel to the dazzling time-travel romance Into the Dim, sacrifice takes on a whole new meaning as Hope and Bran struggle to determine where—or when—they truly belong.
firesmokeashes: The Future (Future Time, Book 1)
Caye Moore
8/2/2017, Science Fiction
Book is set in a distant self-proclaimed Harmonious Future where Religion is dead and the emotionless Scientific WiZards transport people from Future and Past Times for their study.
Groups fiercely opposed to Time Travel believe the presence of Time Travelers disrupts the serenity of life and Time in the Present and attempt violent actions to destroy them or others they hold responsible. The Universal Collective is a loose organization of Seven Galaxies all subject to Universal Collective Authority Government.
The Curious Case of Miss James
Amelia Treader
8/3/2017, Science Fiction/Romance
Consumption stalks Elizabeth James. At least that’s what the doctors from Harley street, the best available in Britain if not the world, say it is. One drop of blood at a time.
Her only hope is the clean air, good food, and care of her uncle, Dr Standfast. Life on Barnecourt farm, high on a down in Dartmoor, may be her last chance. A chance that strange, almost human, men threaten. Especially when they scratch at her window in the depths of the night. Strange animals, a dog that walks upright and understands English, stalk the brush.
Almost as disturbing, a visitor, a young man, almost literally drops from the sky into her life.
Cuteness Overlord
Mike Aaron
8/4/2017, Science Fiction/Humor
Carl Shan is an underappreciated geneticist who is absolutely sick and tired of it all.
His research ideas are illegal. He’s been fired and dumped. The twenty-nine year old has been reduced to living with his parents in stupid Barnley.
Furious with the way the world treats him and knowing that he should always believe in himself, Carl decides to leave it all behind. He builds a time machine to the year 2117.
When he arrives, he is surprised to find his workshop a mess. Why are the buildings in ruins and the streets empty? Also… since when did baby animals have such sharp claws?
Juliet’s Soldier (Out of Time, Book 4)
Sofia Grey
8/4/2017, Romance/Science Fiction
Breaking the rules has never been more dangerous
The primary rules of time travel are
– Never interfere, and
– History is set in stone
Juliet broke the first without meaning to. Now, to save the man she loves and undo her mistake, she’ll have to risk her entire future by breaking the second.
Juliet’s father wants her to marry for prestige, but she’s less-than-pleased with the partnership he’s arranged for her. To keep her freedom, she convinces Marc to ask for her hand instead. He insists the union is only temporary, but she’s got two weeks of travel with him to the 1990’s to convince him their relationship is more.
Then she makes a mistake that not only threatens the timelines of the past, but puts the future at risk too. She’ll have to break the rules to set things straight, and even then, she may lose the man she loves forever.
Return to Coney Island (Enchanted Snow Globe Collection)
Melissa Stoller
8/4/2017, Chapter Book, Children, Fantasy
They thought it was an ordinary sleepover . . .
When nine-year-old twins Emma and Simon shake a snow globe from their grandmother’s enchanted collection, they are transported back to Coney Island on June 24, 1928. According to family legend, that’s the day their great-grandparents meet on the Coney Island trolley. But if events don’t work exactly as they’re supposed to, the meeting won’t take place and the twins might never be born.
After a day of adventures – from the Cyclone roller coaster to the boardwalk arcade, and finally to the all-important trolley ride – will the twins help make it happen?
Renee
Jessica Eise
8/6/2017, Science Fiction
On a brisk fall morning while out for a jog, Renee blacks out and disappears without a trace. One millennium in the future, a team of scientists stare in horror at the bloodied corpse that materializes in their lab. Breaking the trance, an assistant darts forward to scan the body’s oxygen levels. “It’s alive!” she yells desperately.
Stunned by their discovery, the team fights to keep her alive. Yet their fragile guest from the past begins to awaken genetic memories they had long forgotten, setting in motion an unstoppable chain of events.
Troy’s Possibilities
Rodney Strong
8/6/2017, Science Fiction/Romance
For Troy Messer, time travel is great on TV, but it’s not reality. Troy is afflicted by a condition that lets him live out different futures – lots of them. Jaded by all these possibilities, he drifts from day to day never knowing if what he’s living is real life or just a possible one.
When he first meets Cat, it’s not even close to love at first sight. She pepper sprays him and steals his phone. But then he meets her again, and again. Finally, he becomes convinced that this funny, crazy, woman might be just what he needs.
But in his strange world of possibilities nothing is straightforward.
All the Time in the World
Douglas Aalseth
8/8/2017, Science Fiction/Adventure
He wanted to get away from everyone. He ended up seeing places and things he never imagined. Dinosaurs and creatures that came before. Even a few other travellers. In the end though, he made a discovery no one would ever believe
The Beginning (The Secret of the Hidden Scrolls, Book 1)
M.J. Thomas
8/8/2017, Children, Fantasy/Religious
A mysterious scroll transports a brother and sister back to the time of God’s creation of the world in this chapter book for emerging readers.
The Secret of the Hidden Scrolls series follows siblings Peter and Mary and their dog, Hank, as they discover ancient scrolls that transport them back to key moments in biblical history.
In the first adventure in the series, Peter and Mary find themselves witnesses to the creation of the world just as God is speaking it into existence. Can they unlock the mystery of the scrolls before they get trapped in history forever? Children will discover the answer as the two characters ride rhinos, meet the angel Michael, and talk to a certain snake in the Garden of Eden. Riveting text and engaging illustrations bring this beloved Bible story to riotous life. Ages 6-9.
Don’t Touch the Blue Stuff! (Where the Hell is Tesla?, Book 2)
Rob Dircks
8/8/2017, Science Fiction/Humor
The sequel to Where the Hell is Tesla? is HERE!
SOMETHING CALLED THE “BLUE JUICE” IS COMING. FOR ALL OF US.
Luckily, me (Chip Collins), Pete, Nikola Tesla, Bobo, and FBI Agent Gina Phillips are here to kick its ass, and send it back to last Tuesday. Maybe. Or maybe we’ll fail, and everyone in the multiverse is doomed. (Seriously, you might want to get that underground bunker ready.) Either way, I’ve got to get home to Julie and find out… woah, I’m not about to tell you that right here in the book description! TMI.
WARNING: If you haven’t read Where the Hell is Tesla?, I apologize in advance, as you might get completely freaking lost. If you do, just call my apartment, I’m usually around, and I’ll fill you in. (If I’m not stuck in the ITA.) – Chip
Spacetime (The Time Quest Chronicles, Book 1)
Patrick Sheridan
8/8/2017, Science Fiction
A rollicking adventure through time that touches on the evolution of consciousness
Bored and disillusioned with life, little did Richard Walton guess that an uninspiring evening’s entertainment would lead to a rollercoaster of adventure and revelation beyond his wildest dreams. Tumbling through time, searching for answers between self-appointed Time Guardians and rogue time travellers seeking to undermine the temporal order, he finds love and heart-break in a journey of self-discovery which awakens forces that shaped the universe itself.
Double Tap, Double Confusion (Crosstime Commission, Book 1)
Bruce Bretthauer
8/10/2017, Science Fiction
Marge Lewis is working as an Operative Trainee for the Gate Security Commission. She’s also working in an important capacity for Central Prison.
Her missions are coming steadily, but sometimes the orders seem confusing, sometimes the missions seem confusing, and then there’s the volcano. Marge is learning how to do her job, but she’s also beginning to learn to be a little less trusting.
Set in the alternate world of New Zion, and a few alternate timelines.
Wanderlust (The Stardusters Saga, Book 2)
Megan Morris
8/10/2017, Young Adult, Science Fiction/Romance
Erin actually got to say goodbye this time. After she managed to travel back in time to the night of her mother’s murder, things didn’t exactly go as she had expected. Some secrets leave more questions than answers. And some secrets are to die for…
Jay has never met anyone quite as amazing as Erin Parker. In the three months that he’s known her, he has managed to fall madly in love. Now, he stands helpless over her dead body, with no idea of what to do. He already ripped through the fabric of time and space to save his friend but lost the girl he loves—is it possible to do it again with no consequences?
Duster Elizabeth has just been told that she has been dead for over three months. Not something you hear every day. That won’t stop her from completing her mission, though. She knows that there is corruption within the Misra, and she will do everything she can to make sure that the guilty parties are brought to justice—no matter what.
Kiss Across Worlds (Kiss Across Time, Book 7)
Tracy Cooper-Posey
8/13/2017, Romance
He must find a way to be evil.
To save Veris’ and Brody’s son Aran from sex traffickers, Neven Zoric must step into the life of his alter ego in this timeline. Kristijan Zoric is a hardened crime boss Neven doesn’t understand. Worse, Neven must fool Kristjan’s lethal, ruthless lieutenant, Remi De Sauveterre, a vampire who survived the French Revolution and now gives no quarter.
Then Kristjan’s estranged, bitter wife arrives in Serbia. London McCallum wants nothing but her freedom from the vile tyrant that rules her life–except he’s not as hateful as she remembers…
Reader Advisory: This time travel novel features two super-hot alpha vampire heroes, and explicit sex scenes. Do not read this book if frank sexual language offends you.
The time-space continuum was restored to order at the end of this book. Promise.
Time Lapse (Pike Gillette Time Travel, Book 2)
Rex Bolt
8/14/2017, Young Adult, Fantasy
Pike didn’t sign up for this.
And he would ignore it. Except his conscience won’t let him. All he wants is to finish his senior year. Like any normal kid. With a minimum of drama. But that would be way too simple.
On a family vacation – a perfect storm. And he discovers he can pick-and-choose events – and re-set them. And when a present-day tragedy hits too close, messing with the laws of the universe becomes the diciest proposition of his life.
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Elliott Parker
8/15/2017, Science Fiction/LGBTQ
An unknown disease breaks out across the globe, taking millions of lives. There is no cure.
A physicist, distraught by the loss of his love, sets out to accomplish the impossible. With help from the darkest part of his mind, he discovers the secrets of time. A slip of the finger lands him farther ahead than intended, to a time where life seems perfect. But there is still another secret to learn.
Destination Unknown: A Tale of Time Travel
Kathleen Ballentine Watson
8/15/2017, Science Fiction
Beth Nielson doesn’t need any more drama in her life. Her hectic job at the Willis Mortgage Company has become unstable, leaving her with a shaky future. What’s more, she’s dealing with a violent ex-boyfriend who is stalking her, and now a serial killer is on the loose in her city–and the monster is killing women who look just like her.
Meanwhile, her brother Russ has dedicated his life to building a time travel machine; he’s now completed it and is ready for experimentation. Beth hates the contraption and wants no part of it; she fears that possible paradoxes may tear their lives apart. Russ promises his sister that while traveling through time, he will not intermingle with the inhabitants of the past or the future, nor will he change history.
Unfortunately, when Beth’s stalker threatens her, she flees by the only method available – the time machine. It sends Beth to a farm in the year 1860. With a broken-down machine, only time will tell if she can survive this challenging life while she waits and hopes that her brother will find her.
Dreamfield
Ethan D. Bryan
8/15/2017, Sports/Religious
On his forty-first birthday, Ethan travels back to the past for a second chance to relive his senior year of high school and undo the greatest regret of his life. But only God knows how Ethan’s new past will affect his future. An exploration of faith and pop-culture, this modern-historical novel appeals to both adult and young adult readers.
Trapped in the Past (Timeline, Book 2)
Jeremy C. Jones
8/15/2017, Science Fiction/Adventure
Five days after altering the past and restoring harmony to the space-time continuum, (Which took place in Book 1 “TIMELINE: A TALE OF ALTERED HISTORY”), Brian and Carl find themselves living the lives of their dreams. Brian is married to the love of his life with two beautiful children. Carl was now in shape and working for the police department where their father is employed.
And speaking of their father, he’s alive and well! So is their uncle. But something is still amiss. They’re both struggling to adjust to their new lives because their most recent memories are still from the previous timeline, which no longer exists.
In their quest to find answers and hopefully bury their old lives in the past and forget about them, they inadvertently trap themselves in the recent past. Anything they do could dramatically alter the future and cause serious disruptions to the space-time continuum. Their lives and the lives of everyone they love hang in the balance!
The Accidental Future
Blake Townsman
8/16/2017, Science Fiction
Imagine how someone from the 15th century would feel if he could travel in time and land in the 21st century. The difference between both worlds would certainly shock and confuse anyone from that era.
Scott Patterson is a 21st century guy who accidentally comes across an anomaly and finds himself 560 years into the future. He lands in a near-Utopian world, with thousand-storey skyscrapers, computer run AI governments, moving commuter lanes, personal bio microchips, dining and drinking holographic booths, space holidays on the Moon, Mars and other planets, underwater and floating cities, giant protection shields sheltering entire cities and not only from the bad weather and most importantly, the different kinds of interplanetary species living freely on Earth.
Scott has to learn and understand the ways of this future society and he knows it’s not going to be easy to adapt his old mentality to new advanced mentality of the 26th century. What he doesn’t expect, is falling in love and the pleasant adventures that follow. Scott has to make some out-of-character decisions during his time travel adventures.
Airhead in Space, The Martian Conspiracy: Adventures in the Seventh and a Halfth Dimension
Lance Von Prum
8/16/2017, Humor/Steampunk
Ridiculously funny!
Airhead is a twenty-third century rocket ship crash test dummy that works for the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena. His brain is stolen by Martians and taken to the seventh and a halfth dimension. Airhead travels from one strange planet after another while also jumping to higher and higher dimensions in search of his brain.
He finds himself in one preposterous situation after another, twisting the reader’s mind in humorous and entertaining ways. This story was written to make you laugh.
Focal Point (Slipstream Series, Book 1)
Timothy A. Ray
8/16/2017, Science Fiction
A remnant from a future that no longer exists, Jennifer staggers out of an alley, injured and close to death. Taken in by a man that fathered time-travel, she makes a fateful decision that begins a journey she could have neither anticipated or dreamt of happening.
On the run, and with the future slowly fading from memory, she must find a way to go back and stop the Twin Towers from collapsing or the fate of Mankind will be forever sealed and all hopes of a future amongst the stars forever lost.
Splinters in Time (The Time Bubble, Book 4)
Jason Ayers
8/17/2017, Science Fiction/Romance
Getting lost in the wrong time was bad enough. But things get far worse for Josh Gardner when he can’t even find his way back to his own universe. When his ex-girlfriend, Lauren, starts having recurring nightmares about a strange alternate reality in which she was murdered, Josh becomes interested in proving the existence of other universes.
Finding a focal point in the past from which thousands of new universes seem to stem, he travels back in time to find out how they were created. Unfortunately he ends up causing the very event that he went back to investigate. Cast adrift in the multiverse, he no longer has any control over where and when he will end up. With each jump sending him further and further back in time, he finds himself lurching from one alternate universe to another, some similar to his own, others drastically different.
He has but one hope – to find an alter ego in another universe to help him find his way home. But in worlds ravaged by wars and diseases, in many cases it becomes a battle just to stay alive.
Water Planet of the Gods: Secrets of the Amulet
Marcus Mangia
8/18/2017, Hard Science Fiction
“The surrounding shrubs had been disrupted somehow; they all seemed bent and broken, branches had been snapped at odd angles and leaves lay strewn atop the squashed grass. Arraigned about the clearing were several spindly bones, all entirely picked clean.”
Secrets lurk in the shadows of New Orleans, a sprawling mass of cultures and peoples struggling to thrive since the destruction left behind by Katrina. Amongst the hustle and bustle and the rhythmic rattle of the streetcars, strange beings lie in wait. Over at the bayou, darkness lingers.
Like the city he calls home, Jake Diez doesn’t do things by halves. His past is wild and messy and full of holes — and behind him. Now twenty-one he seeks stability, comfort, and — quite frankly — piece and quiet. When a covert hunting trip yields more than they’d bargained for, however, he and his friend Dan find themselves thrust into a world entirely alien from their own, followed by a band of agents intent on keeping the truth — and their own identities — hidden.
Who was the man at Blind Lagoon? What does the FBI want with them? And, more importantly, what is an omnera?
With the help of their friend Sam, a budding science writer and the smartest person they know, the boys must untangle the meaning of history itself — before it’s too late …
Minutemen: World When We Live (The Guardians of Time, Book 2)
David Danforth
8/19/2017, Dystopian Science Fiction
The CEO of the company that rules the world and the leader of the terrorist organization that fights them have one thing in common: they both want Kaylan Smith dead…
America, 2075. When Kaylan Smith, former leader of the time-traveling team known as the Minutemen, discovers the technology used for time travel, she begins a journey unlike any time jump she’s ever taken. This unexpected trip takes her from TriPharmaCorp’s Denver headquarters to the treacherous Southwest.
On her calamitous tour of the American landscape, Kaylan faces a new set of questions: Why does Alpha, the leader of the Anarchists, want to kill her? Why is Kyle, the lunatic time traveler she tracked down once before, visiting her mother? As answers fall into place, a bigger question looms over Kaylan, her colleagues, and the planet: Who are the Guardians of Time?
The Light
Francis Coco
8/20/2017, Science Fiction
One night, on their way home, three people have an encounter with a being of light in the cornfields of a rural town. It isn’t over once they leave the cornfields. Things begin to happen.
The three begin to unravel in different ways. One of the three begins to have prophetic dreams. In the dreams, someone (or some thing) tells him to go to specific places at specific times. He is curious but more than that, he is fearful.
This is the story of what happens when the world shows you it’s not what you thought it was.
The Space Between Whens (Wick After Dark, Book 1)
Max Thompson
8/20/2017, Fantasy/Humor
Fresh from a time-travel date gone very wrong, Wick reminds the Emperor: the woman he was currently holding hands with had warned him—if she survived the battle with wizards and elves, she was murdering his virginity. Time to pay up, dude. And while Wick prefers to ignore the intimacies in human relationships, he isn’t sure Will can handle the things that Aisha will expect from him and feels responsible for making sure Will doesn’t fall off and break a hip.
Wick acts as guardian of their new relationship, but standing in Will’s way is his mother, who is adamant that he’s courting disaster and risking that Aisha will hear every private thought he’s ever had, and on the sideline is Aisha’s seventeen year old son, Jimmy, who has a monumental secret of his own that takes them to the When of Will’s natural life—and nothing prepares Will for how deeply he identifies with Aisha’s son, and how closely entwined their childhood nightmares are.
Prints in the Sand: My Journey with Nanea (American Girl Beforever Journey Series)
Erin Falligant
8/21/2017, Middle Grade, Historical Fiction
The puka shells jingle in my hand. I don’t want to lose them, so I slide the necklace over my head. But as I pull my hair out from under the string of shells, the ground drops from beneath my feet. I feel the whoosh of an ocean breeze, and then a pink mist covers my eyes . . .
What if you suddenly found yourself in Nanea’s hometown of Honolulu during World War Two? Together, you and Nanea could send secret messages for the war effort or work in a Victory Garden. You could learn how to hula dance or help a lost dog. As you read, you decide what happens by choosing your own path through this multiple-ending story.
The Time Traveler’s Odyssey: Part 2
Nicholas Rawlins
8/21/2017, Science Fiction/Mystery
The carefree British musician who wants to watch his concerts in peace; the time traveler who takes self-loathing to an entirely new and literal level; and the reluctant stylist who just wants a good night’s sleep. The ragtag time-traveling trio is back in this continuation of their epic adventures.
Picking up where Part 1 left off with Dr. Skinner in exile, Jimmy, Mindy, and Liam have seemingly completed their mission. However, a shocking new revelation changes everything for Jimmy, and soon the trio are back to uncover more secrets about the origins of their enigmatic adversary and the organization they are all now a part of. Unfortunately for everyone, a new and more dangerous enemy emerges from the shadows to reshape the history of mankind to their liking.
With the help of Jimmy’s handler, Hendricks, each of them will be faced with confronting their own destinies and the everlasting consequences of their choices. The truth behind the time traveler’s organization will finally be uncovered, but is Jimmy prepared to accept it? From navigating futuristic cities, infiltrating island compounds, and uncovering 17th century secret societies, every twist and turn leads towards a powerful confrontation in this exciting middle chapter of the Time Traveler’s Odyssey.
Belle of the Ball (Belle Marigny, Book 1)
Kristie Mott
8/23/2017, Young Adult, Fantasy
It’s hard to be a late bloomer when it comes to magic, but fifteen year old Belle Marigny has been waiting her entire life. Living in New Orleans and coming from a long line of witches has made her yearn for the day when she will have her own powers, but when they arrive they bring trouble.
Accused of a murder that has not happened, Belle has to travel through time while being hunted by a secretive government agency.
Explosions: A Soul Travel Rescue (The Yesterday Doctor, Book 2)
Anne Katherine
8/23/2017, Paranormal Fantasy
“Bully Resistance is a duty!”
Robin Snow thinks her life is set—family, home, career—until she realizes that her daughter will be safe only when Abby is beyond her father’s reach. Robin now knows her husband is as dangerous as a cheetah that toys with its prey. They run, but…
Is she erasing her tracks quickly enough to protect her daughter?
To save an unborn baby, she also soul-travels to Vesuvius, 79 AD. If the volcano explodes before she returns, she and Abby could be erased in the present time. Vesuvius will blow in 2 days.
And Robin must not warn her mother or grandmother that they are about to die.
Robin is catapulted to an ancient desert village on the day her Syrian father leads her away from her mother. Robin has always trusted that soul-travel heals. But where is he taking her ancient self? And when will she see her mother again?
While in the present, Robin’s husband, now aware that she has fled, is on the hunt.
Hybrid House
Aline Riva
8/23/2017, Paranormal Fantasy
Hybrid House has stood for over a century, keeping its many secrets closed behind the door of the mysterious muse house built by Victorian escape artist H.G. Merit. When Carla – a psychic – buys the house to live in the solitude of the countryside, she soon finds there is so much more to Hybrid House than just rumours of haunting.
First she is reunited with her lost love Aden – who has followed his heart to find her – despite the fact that he was recently killed in an accident. As ghost and psychic enjoy their reunion, their happiness is cut short by Carla’s first encounter with the spirit of the man who haunts the house – the former occupant, H.G. Merit.
It soon becomes clear that Hector Merit is no ordinary ghost but a man trapped in another dimension, his soul separated from a body hidden beneath the house, preserved and ready for his return. But Hector is hiding much, including a dark family secret that goes back to Victorian London and a series of notorious Whitechapel murders…
As Hector reveals the secret of opening time portals and asks for her help to enable him to return to the dimension of the living, can she trust the man who hides so much yet feels such pain, but refuses to tell her the whole truth? And exactly how can Victorian science and a missing time machine play a powerful role in altering the course of history in more ways than one? And how does Jack the Ripper play a part in this?
The Kursas (The Maze, Book 2)
George Willson
8/24/2017, Science Fiction
Blake, Perry, and Michelle battle against a race that resembles dragons in order to prevent the discovery of an ancient device that can subjugate an entire planet.
Blake, Perry, and Michelle exit the Maze’s elevator next to a half-buried wreck of a ship, which they immediately investigate. Inside, they find skeletons of creatures resembling human-sized dragons and a panicked final video log showing the ship’s demise and the face of one of these dragon people. Upon exiting, they find themselves surrounded by a small army of these dragon people riding what appear to be red pandas, except for the one who flies towards them and lands directly in front of them.
Taken for questioning by the creatures, they learn the dragon people are called Kursas, a race of technological thieves led by their Highmark, Pyrhinia, and they are actively torturing the indigenous population to locate a mysterious object they call a Forswight. The device was on the crashed ship, with had been cleaned out by the natives, and no trace of it has been found. They convince Pyrhinia to keep them alive by feeding her a story of advanced technologies on their ship which will return for them, but only if they remain alive.
After being inadvertently rescued by the local military, they learn that the Maze travelers’ physiologies are different enough from the locals that they can be tracked, and so with the local help, they struggle to stay ahead of the Kursas while they seek out the item that their enemy desires so greatly. Once they discover it, Blake recognizes its value and danger, and if they were to turn it over, it would be the end for the people of not only this planet but for any world the Kursas would visit.
One World Over Time (One World Over Time, Book 1)
Julie Rodelli
8/24/2017, Steampunk
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The Alethean Legacy
Rob King
8/25/2017, Military Science Fiction
Four hundred years ago, the Aletheans discovered twelve planets in the galaxy that were similar to their own. They sent research vessels to each, hoping to study them and make contact with any civilisations they might find.
During the mission, an extinction event left their home world desolate and the survey vessels adrift above their subject worlds.
Centuries later, whilst serving in Iraq shortly after the first Gulf War, SAS soldier Ryan Marshall finds himself aboard the vessel dispatched to “Candidate 11”.
With the help of a small team of specialists, Marshall must use the alien technology to defend Earth against an imminent destructive force, and harness The Alethean Legacy.
Entanglement (Stasis Series, Book 3)
Alex Drevessa
8/26/2017, Science Fiction/Romance
Thomas assured me this was another quick, easy project to fix space-time. Now, after two years of asking, demanding, yearning to go home, I’m still stuck in 1830’s France, with a new set of physical and emotional scars, no sign that Steve will ever open the gate from his side and get me home.
And no Thomas. Not anymore.
What’s my future, now that I’m trapped two centuries in the past, with a physicist cowboy who can barely take care of himself?
Stopping the Bell (The Atticus Series, Book 2)
Tobias Kloner
8/26/2017, Science Fiction
After his assignment at The Second Hand Diner, the man in the white hat has a new assignment for Atticus, and this time everything is at stake, even the very survival of the human race. In an old speakeasy on the West Side of Manhattan, the Organization has a tavern and Atticus is chosen to run it and guide three of the most unlikely assets.
Johnny Hanson is a nineteen-year-old soldier from 1944, on his way to fight the fascists of Hitler’s regime. He’s young and full of life, a self-serving entrepreneur with a cocky attitude and big plans for the future. All he has to do is make it through the war, and life will be bowl of cherries.
Natalia Volkov is a safe cracker, a thief from 2016. She works for the Russian mob. Tall and beautiful, pushing fifty she can still turn heads, but she leads a solitary life. Cold and methodical she plans her jobs and has never been caught, but her life leaves little time for friends or love. With technology making her skill obsolete and a pack of Neo Nazis hot on her trail, it might be time to take a risk. One last big job and a shot at real love before retiring to a life in some tropical paradise
Nick Slate is a fighter pilot for the United States Air Force in a dystopian future in 2044. America is hanging on by a thread, with only a handful of cities living under energy domes, to protect them from nuclear alienation. Nick grew up in the rubble after World War III, but wonders how things got that way? Something is not right, and he can feel it.
It’s a tall order for Atticus to get these three to work together but with the help of some old friends maybe it will work. The future of civilization is at stake. Come along again on a wild ride in this alternate history sci-fi adventure.
Erimem – Three Faces of Helena (Doctor Who universe)
Iain McLaughlin
8/27/2017, Science Fiction
Another adventure featuring the former companion of the Fifth Doctor Who.
In 276BC, a slave is beaten half to death by a demented princess…
In 1884, a woman calls upon the legendary explorer Allan Quatermain seeking passage to a lost city…
In 2419, the Inquisition exacts Holy Retribution upon a woman called The Abomination…
The link between all three is Helena, the woman just days from marrying into Erimem’s family in 2017. What is the link and how can Erimem save her family?
The Golden Argonauts (The Golden Argonauts, Book 1)
Allison Cassidy Page
8/27/2017, Romantic Suspense
Valentine’s Day in San Francisco. A rickety old house on Telegraph Hill where people go in, but don’t come out. In 2015 a beautiful young prosecutor dedicated to putting the bad guys behind bars is getting ready for her date with the hot detective with a sense of humor and a mysterious past. In 1849 in the gold rush, a motley crew of gold miners look forward to an evening’s fun with the dance hall girls in the parlor turned saloon before they head back to the hills.
What ties this unlikely cast of characters together? A murder . . . or two . . . A gold watch . . . A hidden treasure . . . A weathervane . . . And a fall through the curtain of time to right wrongs and unite lovers in this time travel romantic suspense novel for the ages.
All in Due Time
J. Jason Pratt
8/29/2017, Middle Grade, Science Fiction
Twelve-year-old Jac Hansen is the best prankster that has ever attended his school. His teachers still chuckle and shake their heads when they think about the cafeteria stunt he staged last year. But after pulling a joke at the expense of his best friend, Jac begins to question whether playing pranks is something he still wants to do.
Everything changes for Jac when he is recruited to join a band of master pranksters– a group whose prior work includes Stonehenge, crop circles, and even the great Berenstein/Berenstain Bears book cover swap. (Why? Because “the universe can be a cold, dark place. The way we see it, our job is to lighten things up a bit.”)
With a little encouragement and a lot of technological assistance, Jac and his fellow recruits pull off some of the greatest pranks in Earth’s history. However, his biggest challenge is winning back the friend he lost along the way.
Black to the Future (Tides in Time, Book 1)
Jessie I. Sifford
8/29/2017, Science Fiction
Lewis Tides was an ordinary guy: a retired Naval man with a nine to five job. Then one night his old Navy buddy, Chris Baker, shows up. Except that it’s not the Chris he remembers. He’s from the future. And he’s on a mission.
Chris recruits Lewis as a Time Sprinter to fight evil … and turns his life inside out. Join Tides as he morphs across the world with his crew of Time Sprinters, falling in and out of love, fighting vampires, zombies, mad scientists … and having the time of his life.
Dr. Second
Dr. Seventh
Dr. Eighth
Dr. Ninth
(Doctor Who/Roger Hargreaves,
Books 5-8)
Adam Hargreaves
8/29/2017, Children, Science Fiction
Four all-new Doctor Who adventure featuring the Second, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth Doctors, re-imagined in the style of Roger Hargreaves.
- It’s mayhem in the museum as Dr. Second and his companions find themselves on the run from some abominable baddies.
- Dr. Seventh and his trusty companion Ace are on the prowl as they stumble upon a pack of fiendish feline foes.
- Two warring races. One Time Lord. Dr. Eighth finds himself stuck in middle of an ancient feud and must rely on his wits to save the day.
- With a little help from Rose and Jack, Dr. Ninth sets out to prevent an otherworldly invasion.
These storybook mash-ups, written and illustrated by Adam Hargreaves, combine the iconic storytelling of Doctor Who with the whimsical humor and design made famous by his father, Roger Hargreaves. These four new tales continue this series of witty and tongue-in-cheek storybooks—each featuring one of the twelve Doctors.
Emperor (The Chronicles of Cael, Book 2)
Cassia Meare
8/29/2017, Young Adult, Science Fiction
They saved the worlds. Now he will change them forever.
Valeria has never learned to listen, and the man who returns is different. He is more commanding and powerful than Gaius, and yet has most of his memories, including the memory of loving her.
Above all, he doesn’t know what he is. He cannot know. No one can know.
As Gaius again ascends the throne of Cael, he will have to deal with opposition, betrayal and unrest, while Valeria must mature quickly to understand the intricacies of the court.
However, more time sightings come to pass that change everything, even as Valeria starts loving Gaius in a new and devastating way.
Rebel Rendezvous (Halfsie, Book 1)
Shelby Hailstone Law
8/30/2017, Young Adult, Fantasy
Michelle can’t remember anything farther back than two years ago, when she appeared memory-less on the streets. But when a princess named Elaine and her bodyguard, Andrew, kidnap and press-gang her into joining a war against a magical overlord she never knew existed, something tells her she’s been in this fight longer than she thinks.
Her first mission for the rebel organization known as the Rendezvous takes her into the middle of the Bermuda Triangle, where a temporal spell has kept witches trapped for decades and the laws of magic and Time itself are being perverted for the Royalists’ gain.
But Michelle, a Halfsie, only half-witch and half-human, doesn’t know the laws of magic. And her ignorance may just come at a cost.
Time Will Tale
S.C. Barrett
8/31/2017, Science Fiction/Romance
When Dr. Nathan Hawke broke the laws of Time, the last thing he expected was for Time to take it personally. An epic adventure across time itself in a tale of love, mystery, intrigue, drama and suspense as one man challenges the ages only to find that the concept of Time is far more than what it seems.
The year is 2033. Once considered a leading mind in Quantum Theory, Nathan Hawke finds himself exiled in disgrace from the scientific community and higher academia. Relegated to teaching a high school physics class and spending his nights binge watching 80’s TV shows with his cat, he is approached by a mysterious donor offering to fully fund his research into a unique time travel theory involving the appearances of ghosts. While leery of his new benefactors and their motives, Nathan accepts their gesture. Fearing it may be his last chance to prove his theory true and conquer time.
However, things do not go entirely as planned and upon his first successful test, Nathan finds himself trapped in 1862 on a small farm in Georgia during the Civil War. Forced to wait 3 years for the timesplice to reopen, Nathan soon adapts to his new life in the 1800s. Falling in love with the woman he once knew only as a ghost and becoming one of the family. Eventually deciding to live out his life there in the past where he has found a happiness that the future, with all its bells and whistles, could not offer him.
Only he soon discovers staying out of history’s way is harder than he thought and after inadvertently altering the timeline, his perfect new life is left in shambles. As tragedy continues to strike, Nathan is forced to abandon his new world and barely escapes through the splice when it reopens, but with no way to control when or where each new splice takes him, he finds himself bouncing around through time from one era to another, one adventure to another, and one dilemma to another. Jumping from time to time in a desperate attempt to find the splice that took him to that first day in 1862, reset the timeline, fix his mistakes, and save the woman he loves.
Meanwhile, back in the future, old colleagues have stolen his work and plan to use it for their own nefarious purposes. Leading to a cat-and-mouse chase through the annals of time as his journey home is further complicated by their interference and trying to repair the damage they have caused to history. Plagued along the way by the appearance of a doppelganger of himself that only he can see or hear who shows up to lend vague advice and warnings. Leaving Nathan to wonder who or what he is. Transmissions sent from a future self? Insanity being a side effect of time travel? Or something entirely different?
To make matters worse, Nathan is wanted by the FBI in his own time for crimes he is accused of committing in the distant past. It is during his epic journey across the temporal plains that Nathan will learn there is far more to the existence of Time than he ever imagine.
Trust (Children of Chiron Series, Book 1)
Tabitha Darling
8/31/2017, Fantasy
When centaurs return to Earth, they are dying. In the hopes that humanity can help, war breaks out instead. The last infant must be saved! As one centaur, Ieang struggles to keep the infant girl alive, he finds himself not only trapped on this planet but on the run. Desperate, he and his companion capture one of the enemy, a human, but will she care for the girl? Every day the baby lives is precious!
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Helping to promote time travel fiction and the people who make it happen is central to our mission at the Time Travel Nexus. Our team doesn’t have the personal bandwidth to review all of the time travel books that come out each month, but we try to do our part to let our readers know about those that we discover. Have we missed any August releases (maybe yours)? Know of a book release in the coming months that we should have on our radar? Send us an email at suggestions@timetravelnexus.com with suggestions and corrections. Also, be sure to take a look at two of our lists – Books and Short Stories for Adult Audiences and Books for Young Adult, Middle Grade and Children’s Audiences. We’re always happy to receive suggestions for those too!
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This is a time travellers dream! I am always intrigued by time travel and love any books or movies on it. I actually just wrote a blogpost about an imaginary time-travel scenario! 🙂 Thanks for all these suggestions!