It seems like the number of time travel books being published increases each month. Either that, or maybe we are getting better at tracking them down. Here are forty-eight published this past month that have come to our attention, although there are probably many more.
Extracted (Extracted Trilogy, Book 1)
R.R. Haywood, @RRHaywood
3/1/2017, Science Fiction/Super-Heroes
In 2061, a young scientist invents a time machine to fix a tragedy in his past. But his good intentions turn catastrophic when an early test reveals something unexpected: the end of the world.
A desperate plan is formed. Recruit three heroes, ordinary humans capable of extraordinary things, and change the future.
Safa Patel is an elite police officer, on duty when Downing Street comes under terrorist attack. As armed men storm through the breach, she dispatches them all.
‘Mad’ Harry Madden is a legend of the Second World War. Not only did he complete an impossible mission—to plant charges on a heavily defended submarine base—but he also escaped with his life.
Ben Ryder is just an insurance investigator. But as a young man he witnessed a gang assaulting a woman and her child. He went to their rescue, and killed all five.
Can these three heroes, extracted from their timelines at the point of death, save the world?
Future Threat (Future Shock, Book 2)
Elizabeth Briggs, @lizwrites
3/1/2017, Young Adult, Science Fiction
Six months ago Aether Corporation sent Elena, Adam, and three other recruits on a trip to the future where they brought back secret information–but not everyone made it back to the present alive. Now Elena’s dealing with her survivor’s guilt and trying to make her relationship with Adam work. All she knows for sure is that she’s done with time travel and Aether Corporation.
But Aether’s not done with her–or Adam, or fellow survivor Chris. The travelers on Aether’s latest mission to the future have gone missing, and Elena and her friends are drafted into the rescue effort. They arrive in a future that’s amazingly advanced, thanks to Aether Corporation’s reverse-engineered technology. The mission has deadly consequences, though, and they return to the future to try to alter the course of events.
But the future is different yet again. Now every trip through time reveals new complications, and more lives lost–or never born. Elena and Adam must risk everything–including their relationship–to save their friends.
The Message
Fabrice Galonnier, @Fgalonnier
3/1/2017, Cyberpunk
The Message, that’s the name of the most important event in humans’ history. Broadcasted simultaneously on all the world’s screens, it was supposedly sent from the future to warn us about a great danger. A coming catastrophe that we can prevent on the condition that we do what the beings from the future ask us to do. But it’s something horrible: they ask us to kill an innocent child…
And that’s how little Claire, the child designated by the Message, ends up being tracked. Though not by everyone, as she’s able to find some help from those who don’t want to be influenced by these so-called messengers from the future.
And that’s how an extraordinary adventure starts. An adventure filled with unforeseen developments and mysteries. Is the Message telling the truth? Who are those who sent it and what are their intentions? And who is Claire, really? Many questions to which the answers will be found by Claire and all those who try to help her.
Waking in Time
Angie Stanton, @angie_stanton
3/1/2017, Young Adult, Mystery/Romance
Still mourning the loss of her beloved grandmother and shaken by her mysterious, dying request, Abbi has just arrived at UW Madison for her freshman year. But on her second day, she wakes up to a different world: 1983. That is just the first stop on Abbi’s journey backward through time. Will is a charming college freshman from 1927 who travels forward through time. When Abbi and Will meet in the middle, love adds another complication to their lives.
Communicating across time through a buried time capsule, they try to decode the mystery of their travel, find a lost baby, and plead with their champion, a kindly physics professor, to help them find each other again … even though the professor is younger each time Abbi meets him. This page-turning story full of romance, twists, and delightful details about campus life then and now will stay with readers long after the books satisfying end.
Mark Twain & The River of Timeless Temptation
Jon Kerr
3/2/2017, Young Adult, Fantasy
Did Sammy Clemens sell his soul for Fame?
In 1866 a young Mark Twain went on his first international trip, crossing Central America through Nicaragua on a popular route used by 49ers and others before the Panama Canal construction. His real-life travelogues included a mysterious companion named Mr. Brown.
But what Clemens didn’t describe was Brown’s satanic purpose in taking them on a journey back in time, meeting other famous and local travelers in the Rio San Juan area including Cornelius Vanderbilt, future Lord Nelson, pirate Henry Morgan and even Christopher Columbus. Gathering experiences and story ideas, the future-great-author also has opportunities to disrupt the narrative of time. Will Sammy trade his soul for fame & fortune? Or will he rewrite history forever?
The Genesis Conspiracy
James D. Prescott, @J_dprescott
3/2/2017, Science Fiction
The secret behind human evolution is about to be revealed … but will it come in time?
For over a decade, archaeologist Dr. Martin Anders has searched in vain for proof of the fabled continent of Atlantis. After raising a puzzling artifact from the ocean floor, Anders gets more than he bargained for. It is a piece of modern technology thousands of years old.
When a deadly global pandemic threatens the human race with extinction, Anders fails to see how it may be connected to his startling new discovery. That is until he’s approached by a powerful biotech company.
They’re assembling a team of scientists and Special Forces Operators to retrieve the cure from their top secret research facility.
It will mean traveling to a dangerous land populated by creatures long extinct and facing off against an ancient order determined to keep its secrets at any cost.
Quantum Time Theory: Journals of a Traveler Through Time (Nevertime Chronology, Book 1)
Ned Huston
3/3/2017, Science Fiction
The invention of the Time Machine has created a veritable gold rush of greedy people bent on getting rich by Changing Time. Changing Time has been made illegal and so has Traveling to the Past without a permit, but Time Traveling criminals don’t care! They’re hell bent on using Time Machines to Travel to the recent Past so they can make a Change that will create a profit for them in the Present.
The only problem is one change leads to another, so come the present, millions of things have changed, not just one. The entire human race has been Wiped Out again and again and replaced with a new slightly different population. The Time Travelers don’t care—so long as they’re getting rich.
There are so many lawbreakers trying to get rich quick that they’ve had to form a Syndicate to coordinate their Changes, so now a Change comes every two to three weeks. The Central Time Authority has been created to arrest and punish lawbreakers, but greed and corruption have prevented it from bringing Traveling to an end. Law-abiding Longtimers avoid being Changed by getting into short-range Time Machines called Safe Houses and Traveling around the Changes in Time. They have created a Society of Suvivors who inhabit the Fourth Dimension and fight against Timecrime.
Many of them live in Shawneetown, Illinois, a once great city made great again by a Change in Time. It is the second largest city in America and the headquarters of the Intertime Government and the Central Time Authority. It is also a hotbed of Timecrimers and Longtimers, the crossroads of Voiders, Pirates and the superrich Eloi.
So when the brothers and sisters of the Vann family, Shawneetowners of Reality 250, are approached by their oldest brother Amos to enter the Timeflow, they don’t know what they’re getting into. They don’t want to be Time Travelers or Longtimers. They just want to lead their ordinary lives. Instead, they have to Adapt to the bizarre environments they find themselves in and make a new way of life in an ever-changing landscape.
Dexter Vann is just an ordinary guy starting out in life, but he and his brothers and sisters find themselves constantly starting over. They have to battle the Seven Dangers of a Time Traveler’s life: Bystanders, Timecrimers, Time Changes, other Time Travelers, Time Travel itself, Bankruptcy, and Mental Stress.
Dexter Vann wants to start a career, find love, and settle down, but there’s just one problem after another. Can he and his brothers and sisters Adapt? Can they Survive? Can they too become Longtimers? Don’t count on it, because the Timeflow is a Deathworld.
Doctor How and the Alien Invasion (Doctor How, Book 3)
Mark Speed, @MarkSpeed7
3/5/2017, Science Fiction/Humor
Kevin must die.
And a race of aliens hate him so much they’re prepared to invade Earth to kill him.
Doctor How thinks his greedy, womanising cousin Why can help – but can he be trusted?
As a killer robot blasts its way across the planet and a death ray is fired at London, Doctor How sends Kevin back in time on a desperate mission to save the Earth. But when he’s paired up with one of the Doctor’s previous assistants the sparks begin to fly – for all the wrong reasons…
Kevin’s made a lot of dangerous enemies in the present, and things looks bleak back home – does he have a better future in the past?
This book series is not affiliated with or endorsed by the BBC. It is not a Doctor Who story.
The Perfect Teresa
Ulises Silva, @zombiesandtacos
3/6/2017, Fantasy/Humor
Teresa’s gotten over the embarrassment of a humiliating high school talent show performance. After all, she’s now 43 and only thinks about the experience once or twice a day.
Lucky for her, an unemployed Aztec deity applying for Quetzalcoatl’s Trickster Department offers to grant Teresa her wish. He’ll send her back to 1988 to re-do the talent show! Catch? There’s no catch! After all, he’s a fully licensed deity with a Masters in Temporal Displacement Theory and a bachelors in Trickster Sciences and Cosmic Mischief. Besides, a talking coyote can be trusted, right?
For Teresa, it seems like the chance of a lifetime. But she soon finds that changing the past won’t be as easy as she thought, especially without Wikipedia. And that in a desperate effort to make her life better, she might end up making things much, much worse.
A time-travel comedy full of cosmic mischief, 80s pop culture references, talking coyotes, and, of course, guacamole.
A Reunion in Time
Russell F. Moran, @RFMoran
3/7/2017, Fantasy
A novel of time travel, love, friendship, and terror.
Rick Bellamy is a 37 year old FBI agent, in charge of the New York office if the Counterterrorism Task Force. His life just changed, and it wasn’t something he planned on.
While visiting his old high school to help with an alumni committee, he was suddenly attacked by a short man in a black robe. Instinctively, to protect himself, Rick pummeled the little man, leaving him semi-conscious on the floor. Three other brothers came running to the scene of the commotion, one of them, Brother Francis yelling, “Young man, come to my office immediately.”
The sign on his door said Dean of Men, but Rick remembered him as a guidance counselor. He wanted an explanation of Rick’s behavior toward Brother Morris. “My goal was simple, Brother—to defend myself against that sadistic little prick.” As they spoke, Rick looked around the familiar office. He saw a team photo of the championship football team from 1999. He stood in the back row. Then he realized that Brother Francis looked quite young, in his 30’s, but that was impossible, because Brother Francis should be in his mid-50s by now. Brother Francis asked Rick if he knew what year it was, thinking that Rick may be suffering from a mental disorder. Rick said it was the year 2021, although the calendar on the wall showed the year to be 2001. Brother Francis then told Rick to look at a full length mirror in the corner of his office. That’s when Rick realized that the world had changed, and his life with it. He was looking at a kid who appeared to be 17 years old.
Brother Francis takes Rick to a psychiatrist who specializes in hysterical psychosis, suspecting that Rick suffers from this. The psychiatrist gives Rick a clean bill of mental health, and recommends that Rick see an acquaintance of his, a leading expert on time travel, a professor at Princeton. The guy drives up to New York to see Rick, and determines that Rick has, indeed, time travelled.
While Rick meets with the professor, his wife, Ellen, tries to find him, along with some of Rick’s colleagues from the FBI. While they looked around the grounds of the High School, Ellen steps on a grate, and disappears. She emerges, still at the high school, but it was a different place from where she was a few minutes ago. Ellen walks into the school, and a friendly brother informs her that Rick is, indeed, there and escorts her to the room where Rick was meeting with the time travel professor. On the way she looks at a full length mirror, and instead of seeing a beautiful 36-year-old woman, she sees a scrawny 16-year-old—herself, 20 years in the past.
They try to convince anyone who will listen that they are accomplished adults in their mid-30s, Rick an FBI agent, and Ellen a famous architect. When they accurately predict the horrors of September 11, 2001 just a few days later, people start to believe them. Rick’s parents have a hard time believing all of this, but finally take it on Rick’s say-so, and his prediction of 9/11. His parents reluctantly let them sleep in the same room, in the same bed. After all, they’re married, his dad said to his mother, with a confused look on his face.
Rick, Ellen, and a boy named Jack (another time traveler) who is an accomplished author and journalist, set off to explore their strange new (old?) surroundings. They visit Ellen’s favorite uncle who introduces them to yet another time traveler, a man with a secret knowledge of a nuclear terrorist plot in the near future. They know they have to get back to 2021 to warn the authorities of the horrors that await, horrors worse than 9/11. Their Princeton professor friend has a theory that they can find the time portal, or wormhole, and return to the time and place they came from.
Class: The Stone House (Class series, Book 1)
A.K. Benedict, @ak_benedict
3/7/2017, Young Adult, Science Fiction
One of three thrilling companion novels, set in the universe of the new Doctor Who spin-off show, Class.
Don’t go near the house, whatever you do. It wants the lonely, the lost, the vulnerable. It wants you.
Tanya keeps having bad dreams about the old stone house around the corner from Coal Hill School—and a girl trapped there, screaming and terrified. When Tanya and her friends go to investigate the strange house covered in cobwebs, they stumble onto their own worst nightmares come to life. But there is a presence haunting the house that is even more powerful than their individual horrors. A presence that may not want to let them go…
In spite of the danger, Tanya is determined to free the mysterious girl in the house. But they are running out of time—the house is scheduled for demolition. With the help of their teacher Miss Quill, Tanya and three other kids prepare to fight their nightmares, and whatever other monsters they hear scuttling around in the walls. But how can they fight against monsters that are supposed to exist only in their dreams?
Exit West: A Novel
Mohsin Hamid, @mohsin_hamid
3/7/2017, Political Fantasy
In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet—sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair, and are soon cloistered in a premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city. When it explodes, turning familiar streets into a patchwork of checkpoints and bomb blasts, they begin to hear whispers about doors—doors that can whisk people far away, if perilously and for a price. As the violence escalates, Nadia and Saeed decide that they no longer have a choice. Leaving their homeland and their old lives behind, they find a door and step through. . . .
Exit West follows these remarkable characters as they emerge into an alien and uncertain future, struggling to hold on to each other, to their past, to the very sense of who they are. Profoundly intimate and powerfully inventive, it tells an unforgettable story of love, loyalty, and courage that is both completely of our time and for all time.
The Lord of Dreams
C.J. Brightley, @CJBrightley
3/7/2017, Young Adult, Fantasy
When a fairy king grants a human wish, there’s more at stake than dreams.
Claire Delaney has a good life, despite her adolescent angst. But she wants more. In a moment of frustration, she wishes to be “the hero.”
What she actually wants is to be the center of attention, but what she gets is a terrifying Fae king demanding that she rescue an imprisoned fairy, facing fantastical dangers and hardships she could not have imagined.
Yet the dreams–and the rescue–are only the beginning of her journey. She is at the center of the king’s audacious gamble to end the war that has raged in Faerie for half a century.
Another Time
Donna Steele, @steele_donna
3/8/2017, Romance/Paranormal
When Dusty Williams walks into a strange bar to contemplate the ruination of his career, the last thing he expects to find is a compelling woman. He’s not even in the mood for a one-night stand. He just wants to escape from all humanity.
Dee Stevens can’t believe she’s in a bar at all. She’s just lost two patients due to drunk driving. Whatever could have drawn her into a strange bar tonight, of all times?
When the two meet, and they feel an odd vibration that seems to pull them together, they have no idea what’s ahead, or behind, them . . . and what it can mean for mankind.
Stalingrad Run (Snapshot-42, Book 1)
Dale Cozort, @DaleCoz
3/8/2017, Military/Science Fiction
At the height of World War II, an apparent time anomaly cuts Europe and part of the Middle East off from the rest of the world. Trapped in Northern Iran, with no way to contact the world he knew, United States Army Engineer Jim Edwards is forced to flee from both the Germans and the Soviets. His only companions are a mysterious Russian woman who may be trying to assassinate Stalin, and a man who calls himself “Loki”. Is he any more trustworthy than the Norse trickster god he’s named after?
In a desperate bid to get to Great Britain, Jim finds himself in a treacherous race across Nazi-occupied Europe. His mission? To prevent the Nazis from overrunning Europe, then sending their war machines against an alternate United States that’s still armed with black powder muskets. The freedom of mankind’s future may depend on his success.
Island of Lost Time (Valley of Lost Time, Book 2)
Robert Turnbull
3/9/2017, Science Fiction/Adventure
The survivors of the ‘Valley of Lost Time’ once again find adventure as they form an expedition to find an unknown island. Records in a century old Captain’s log, have said to had found dinosaurs living on it. The problem is, the sketchy report came from the Captain’s log of missing ship 100 years earlier and a stranger tale of a mysterious man found at sea.
With little to go on the trio team up with Spider’s handsome cousin to find what couldn’t be found for a century or more, a phantom island. What they do find makes them wish that perhaps they should have stayed home. Action, adult language and situations, romance, adventure.
Reversione: Reset the Future
Chris A. Jones, @ChrisAJonesAuth
3/9/2017, Young Adult, Science Fiction
Mankind had spent decades trying to overcome an impending ecological global disaster. By the late 23rd century the disaster that they were attempting to prevent was at hand, and there was no reversing the damage. Now two scientists, both more than a 150 years apart are brought together to find a way to change the mistakes of the past and try to save a future that can only be done through the destiny of these two individuals. The love they will find together will not only determine the fate of their own lives, but the fate of the world.
Can the two of them turn back the clock and reset the future of discovery?
It is a love story more than 200 years in the making that will define a destiny that will survive all time.
Time Travel for Love and Profit
Jeff Abugov, @JeffAbugov
3/10/2017, Science Fiction/Paranormal
A time travel story, a crime story, a paranormal story, and a love story… all rolled into one.
T.J. is a seasoned ex-con, a thief by trade, a quick-witted rogue and a loveable scoundrel by nature. After paroled from San Quentin, he manages to get his hands on a time machine built into an Apple Watch, and goes back to 1932 to invest $10,000 in IBM with the intent of returning home to collect his millions.
But his plan is made complicated when he comes face-to-face with the beautiful woman who has haunted his dreams since his childhood.
Joy Ride (Shiny Side Up, Book 1)
Mike Rion
3/11/2017, Science Fiction/Dystopian
“Have I missed anything?” Is the thought that keeps ricocheting around inside his tortured brain trying its best to gum up the works, but he must keep his wits about him for just a little while longer. Fact is that smuggling dangerous, explosive and forbidden contraband into a crowded public venue breaks nearly every rule in the book; that very same book they will undoubtedly throw at him, if he is found out too soon. Of course, once he pushes that button, they will want to do even worse things to him, but by then it will be too late and his own worries will be at an end. After that, there is little doubt that he will be branded a terrorist of the worst ilk, in perpetuity.
The year is 2037 and Mike Harrison is frantic with worry. He has been up most of the night dealing with last minute preparations; not that he sleeps much anyway. He’s been involved with this latest project for over 3 weeks now, beginning not long after he received the dreadful news. It isn’t that he minds the extra effort, but he does wish the odds were more in his favor. It isn’t enough to discourage him from making the attempt, though. As time passes, he keeps going over and over things, in his mind.
His treasured 52 Jaguar XK120 sits before him now, in all its pristine magnificence. Now, all he has to do is sneak it past the inspectors at the entry gate. As he stands with trepidation next to his classic beauty, awaiting his turn, he surveys its sleek shape and feline grace. It is certainly aptly named. His relationship with the automobile stretches back nearly 85 years and it has weathered the ages better than he. Its destruction, at his very own hand, would have been unthinkable only weeks earlier, but now appears eminent. There can be no turning back from this point forward. The die has unfortunately been cast long ago, by fate.
There is just so much a man can take and they have pushed him far beyond his limit, long ago now. It is time to put up, or shut up. He is set to make the kind of statement that will be heard far and wide, all across the Midwest and perhaps even the nation. But even he cannot foresee the full impact of his planned deed; an impact that will eventually be felt, not just across the nation, but the entire planet and even the Universe, as he takes one last joyride in his beloved Jaguar roadster.
The Last Visionary (The Scepter Chronicles)
Kirsten Roberts
3/11/2017, Young Adult, Science Fiction/Dystopian
In a universe where five planets used to exist, only two have survived the mysterious catastrophe caused by Colton Cell, a man who stole the sacred keys of paradise. Now twenty years later, a war is beginning to surface, and only Amarna Waters and the last Visionary have the ability to stem the rising tide. With Amarna’s brother in the hands of Colton Cell, she must gain the lost keys he seeks, using her special talents, in return for her brother.
Her task will not be easy as politics, and dark forces make her undertaking that much harder to accomplish. Even her partner the last Visionary poses his own complications to their mission with his amnesia, his strange abilities, and his growing affection for Amarna. The Last Visionary is a tale of good and evil that ties past tragedies to future transformations.
The Imitation Games (Doctor Who: The Time Splicer, Book 2)
Cour M.
3/12/2017, Science Fiction
Now at the mercy of another threat, Ten and Martha find themselves captured by another force. Yet as they suffer under the misfortune of not knowing if their fate is undecided, they find themselves joined by another individual: the Doctor… a younger one or older one. Yet which number Doctor is this who meets his Tenth self?
To add to all this, they are drawn into an intergalactic crisis. The planet, Mecrellas, is in the midst of their Imitation Games, where they are using technology to open gateways between planets and then copying that planet’s history. To mimic those planet’s time of peace is one thing, but to mimic it during time of war is their chief desire. Thus the politicians and delegates on Mecrellas are forcing certain classes on the planet to partake in these games. What’s worse is that they are using the Earth’s history as the marking point.
Can the two Doctors, along with their companions, come together and save the planet from its ruthless politicians? Thus here is book II of the Time Splicer Series!
Slow Echoes
Kristina M. Serrano, @BooksandBichons
3/12/2017, Young Adult, Fantasy
Selk Baioumi is Croatian. She’s also Egyptian. And American. Despite her vast heritage, the only family she has known is her mom and late grandfather. Other than that, the closest relationship she has is with her boxing/kickboxing instructor, Cliff. And she’s perfectly happy with her life, until two new men show up in her cozy hometown of Snow Hill, Maryland. The first, Whistler, an ill—reputed boxer with a paranormal secret. The second, Zahid, the Egyptian father who’d left her mother the day after Selk was born.
Zahid’s return brings the truth about Selk’s ancestry and promises of death for many, including Whistler, the not—so—bad boy who’s stolen her heart with his dry smile and effortless empathy. In order to obliterate those promises, Selk and Whistler must enter and survive an alternate Egypt where crocodiles swim in venom, stainedglass labyrinths come to life and mummies can slow your every move, even speech? if overprotective Cliff doesn’t kill Whistler first.
Shattered Time: An Anthology
Multiple authors
3/13/2017, Multiple genres
Have you ever wanted to travel through time? Or wondered if it was even possible? Welcome to the Shattered Time anthology, where you can escape from this reality and travel through the minds of twelve diverse authors with unique stories of love, danger and death.
“Lines of Time and Desire” by J.L. Clayton, @JLClaytonBooks
If someone sent you a text saying they’re from the future, would you believe them? Londyn doesn’t know if this stranger with a charming personality is just pulling her leg or telling the truth, but what she does know is that it’s too much fun not to play along. With her heart now on the line and dark secrets looming, will she make the right decision or will she let the love of her life disappear into time? A romantic tale of love, time, and tragedy.
“Homecoming” by Carissa Ann Lynch
Astrid finds something at a local witch’s house, something that doesn’t belong there…
It belongs to her baby brother. The only problem with that is…he’s supposed to be dead.
Astrid searches for the truth, learning that sometimes death isn’t final…
“A Web Through Time” by Niki Livingston, @NikiLiv_author
Meet Alex. Ordinary. Quiet. And she plays by the rules. Until she’s forced into a world where her past becomes her future and the governments of Earth are searching for her execution. Will she embrace her true nature or succumb to the threats of her parents’ enemies?
“Willow and The Forbidden Portal” by Regina O’Connell, @regina_oconnell
Willow, a simple Herb Woman, flees for her life after a child under her care loses his life.
Accused of witchery, she knows the only way to save her life is to find The Forbidden Portal and escape through time.
“Cassandra’s Choice” by Ashlee Shades, @ashlee_shades
One moment, Cassandra’s driving along in her car to meet her new niece; the next, she’s waking up in the bed of an angry 19th-century Duke. What begins as a battle of wills soon turns into a struggle of emotions as Cassandra finds herself falling in love with the Duke. Will she make it back or choose to stay with the man she has come to love?
“The Secrets Crows Keep” by Bradon Nave, @BradonNave
Mildred was certain she’d escaped her past…she buried him. So when he showed up at her front door she had no choice but to question everything. As secrets are revealed, she realizes nothing is as it seems and the truth is more bizarre than she’d imagined.
“Bridging the Gap” by Jeremy Simons, @jeremi1986
A dismantled bridge. A portal into an era time had forgotten. That was all Garrett needed to realize how better the future could be. But at what price?
It isn’t until Garrett sees his ways are destroying the future rather than bettering it that he comes to his senses. But will it be too late?
“Time’s Launch” by Joe Pranaitis, @JoePranaitis
The year is 2363, and the Earth Confederation launched their first time-ship the ECS Andrea commanded by Captain Joseph Dyson, the ships experimental engines move them ten thousand years into the future.
“The Salesman” by D.A. Roach, @daroach12books
Melanie, consumed by guilt over a recent tragedy, struggled to forgive herself and move forward, until one day, when a peculiar salesman offered a remedy to what ailed her.
“One Cockroach Left” by Genevieve Moultrie
A tale of dinosaurs, aliens, time travel, and a really bad day . . . sixty-six million years ago.
“Time” by Grace Charles
When tragedy strikes, Vida Morton is given the choice to go back in time, and save the man she loves, Mort Vidal. But love is a tricky game, and so is time. Especially in the face of death.
“Whisper’s of Forever” by T. Guthrie
A breathless caress, an echo of desire whispering of Forever.
Layla thinks she is from the modern world, but her modern life hasn’t been simple. Plagued with visions of others, Layla always felt as if she belonged in another time with the strangers that haunt her mind. Layla will soon find out if her visions are true. A deliciously dark serenade of hope filled tragedy.
A Flight in Time (The Thief in Time Series, Book 2)
Cidney Swanson, @cidneyswanson
3/14/2017, Young Adult, Fantasy/Romance
Jillian dreams of abandoning her business major and going to culinary school in Europe, but her parents’ expectations and a crippling fear of flying threaten to keep her grounded. To address her fear of flight, she travels to 1908 to meet Wilbur Wright. She doesn’t plan on meeting handsome Everett, who broke from his privileged life to pursue a love of flying contraptions and who claims they’ve met before. When she realizes she’s falling for him, she’s faced with a heartbreaking choice that could destroy her chances of happiness and even unravel history itself.
Pilot X
Tom Merritt, @acedtect
3/14/2017, Science Fiction
What if a time traveler lived in a world where disrupting the timeline could destroy everything in the universe ― everything but himself?
Pilot X is Ambassador of the Alendans, a race with the ability to move through space and time as guardians of the timeline. Locked in ongoing conflict with the Sensaurians, an organic hive mind that can send messages in thought throughout its own history, and the Progons, a machine race who can communicate backwards in time, Pilot X finally manages to create peace among the three races.
But when Pilot X discovers that a secret dimensional war fought in hidden parts of spacetime threatens the fabric of the universe itself, he faces unseen enemies and a deeper conspiracy, bringing him to the ultimate choice: erase the existence of all three races, including his own people, or to let the universe be destroyed.
Skipping Forward
Bethany Wicker, @puzzleme17
3/14/2017, Young Adult, Fantasy/Romance
What if you could skip forward in time, but never back? Molly Jacobs has always wished for more time in life. But for Molly, time doesn’t work the same as it does for others because she suffers from time skipping. At least, that’s what she calls it. From the age of seven, Molly discovers her ability to jump into the future. But it doesn’t come without a price. With each time skip, memories of those seconds, minutes, or hours of her life are lost. Molly never cared until Rhett enters her life. Now, time has meaning, and as they grow closer together, pieces of their time together disappears. Molly needs to learn discipline and control, before she loses the essence of her life.
Stay At Home
Daniel J. Kirk
3/14/2017, Science Fiction
As a stay at home father, Anthony Hill thinks life is going to be fun raising his twin children. That is until the horror of entertaining two toddlers unveils a dark secret about the twins. They are not in fact children, and they are preparing for an apocalyptic event. Can Anthony keep his sanity and save the world, or is all of this just the cracking pressure of being a stay at home parent?
Alexandria (The Sword of Agrippa, Book 2)
Gregory Ness, @Archimedius
3/15/2017, Science Fiction
Enter a dystopian, hard science fiction rabbit hole.
In Memphis, at the height of the ancient Roman Empire, a long-lost temple is discovered in an underground vault. Behind the door with arcane markings, Marcus Agrippa and his Egyptian priestess lover discover strange maps, deadly snakes, rooms filled with tablets and a ritual which will change them forever.
Fast forward to the near future and scientist Roy Swenson begins conducting dream viewing experiments in Prague, in the hope that he will finally discover dark energy.
But when another fragment of his past appears at a surprising moment, Randall discovers a new technology that allows viewers to enter their subject’s dreams. And it propels him towards something completely unexpected.
Desire, ambition and greed combine, as two incongruent timelines begin to merge and their boundaries become blurred. What will it mean for two ambitious men, both seeking power they do not understand?
The future is close to the precipice and neither one knows whether they are on the side of good or evil.
Recommended for 18+ readers due to sex, violence and mature language.
Out of Time: The Long Way Home
D.M. Rasey, @dmrasey
3/16/2017, Science Fiction
David Graham is an ordinary guy. A cheap broken-down car, a soul-sucking desk job, a high-school-sweetheart-turned-wife and a dog in an apartment in a Los Angeles suburb. He goes into his doctor’s office for some routine tests and forgets about them, figuring there’s no reason to worry. A few weeks later, he has an appointment.
“You have cancer.”
When he gets home from the doctor’s, his wife is screwing the neighbor, he gets fired from his job the next weekday for a absurd reason, and the doctor confirms a few days later that it’s cancer, and it’s terminal, and there’s nothing they can do. He sends Dave to a support group.
Leaving the group, a odd, old man approaches Dave. The man says he can cure Dave, if he works for him. He calls the old man that night and agrees to meet. Turns out the old man lives in an decommissioned missile silo in the desert, where he keeps his crazy high-tech lab, the eccentric, elderly man offers a promising cure. The caveat is that the method has never been tested, hence the risks are completely unknown. With little at stake, David agrees to undergo the procedure.
A trusting relationship builds between David and his new found friend as they work together to bring this revolutionary marvel of science and medicine to fruition. Along the way, David comes to grips with values he never knew he had and a deeper appreciation for mankind overall. The remedy, however, is not without possible side-effects, some deadly….
Elemental Linx (The Tetrad Prophecy, Book 1)
R. Castro, @RoseCastro
3/19/2017, Young Adult, Fantasy/Myth
After experiencing a tragedy too painful to accept, Viviana Magnus starts having strange dreams. In them, she’s whisked away from her cloudy Seattle home to the sun-drenched city of Tenochtitlan during the height of the Aztec Empire. She thinks it’s only an escape—a way for her mind to cope with her harsh reality—especially the parts featuring the handsome young Aztec General, Tadeo.
But when a strange, consuming fire starts building inside Viviana, she discovers her family has been keeping a dark secret. Her dreams aren’t just dreams, they’re preparation for an ancient destiny.
As the old world and the new collide, Viviana learns she is one of the four Elemental Linx, a group of powerful new era Gods and Goddesses, destined to fight a vengeful Aztec Deity bent on destroying the human race.
The Legacy (Time Masters, Book 3)
Geralyn Beauchamp, @TheTimeMistress
3/19/2017, Fantasy
Get ready for the wildest ride yet! Picking up where Time Masters Book 2, The Prophecy, leaves off, the Muiraran palace is in chaos. Dallan MacDonald’s wife Shona was almost killed and now he’ll do whatever is necessary to protect her. Add to that a missing Kwaku Awahnee and the new Time Master has an even bigger problem.
The long-lost Time Keeper, Bartrol.
Bartrol has managed to infiltrate the Muiraran palace, seep his way into Dallan’s heart and mind to make one thing perfectly clear. He wants Shona. Now the Muiraran king Jaireth, Shona’s father, must decide what to do. Convinced Bartrol will use his daughter to destroy the Muiraran race, he’s forced to choose between the lives of Dallan and Shona and the lives of his people. Two lives against thousands. How can he possibly save them all?
But when Dallan discovers Bartrol has Kwaku Awahnee as his prisoner, he risks the king’s wrath and sets out with Shona and their friends to rescue him before the inevitable happens.
Separated for too long, Kwaku and Zara will die.
Never Say Never (Resetter Series, Book 2)
Brenda Barrett, @AuthorWriterBB
3/19/2017, Fantasy
You can only live once, right?
That is what Travis Jefferson believed. He had a past with many mishaps and an accident that left him crippled, but he was in no doubt that one could not just reset their lives.
And that is why, when his attractive neighbor and student, Skyler Porter, told him he was a resetter, he was doubtful that she was sane.
Even though Skyler and her family seemed to believe this myth and had their own resetter, he was not buying it. It would take something catastrophic in his life to make him contemplate going back in time…
Yesterday (Time Bridge, Book 1)
Jill Cooper, @jillybug
3/19/2017, Science Fiction
Lara Crane thought she left time travel behind her, but when a remnant from her past arrives to settle a score long thought settled, Lara must find a way to reset the timeline before it unravels the fabric of her life.
With just a week until her fairytale wedding to successful businessman Donovan James, one of Lara’s oldest friends is murdered and thrusts her into a cat and mouse game with a dangerous time travel assassin. With her own powers long dormant, Lara struggles to cope with a danger she can no longer fight.
But the timeline begins to reset. People die who were intended to live and everything Lara knows changes and morphs all around her, she grapples with a life altering decision that won’t just affect her. It’ll change everything. Lara’s race against the clock is on and it puts her against enemies and family alike. Find out if Lara can save the future without destroying herself in the process.
The Quantum Cartographer: Book of Cruxes
Kristen Keenon Fisher
3/21/2017, Science Fiction
It is 2033 somewhere in the middle of Nevada as Eliza Carrefour stares at the Proctor, a shrouded man sitting in her living room, surrounded by eight men equally as mysterious and uninvited. Eliza, mother of a two-year-old son and a former scientist, knows this is the night she has long feared. Moments later after she barely escapes the men, she races to a secret location: the home of Nour Delarune, the only one who can help her son safely reach his destiny.
As Eliza’s son is forcefully pulled toward his destination, Nour places him inside a time machine that will transport him to the Lost Aeon, a time buried by the memory of history. Within that memory sits the ancient land of Kressya, once the home of a mystical crystal believed to have unlocked the doors of time. Kressya’s empire is desperate to gain possession of the sacred relic and its power. Nija, now a young Kressyan boy, finds himself thrown in the middle of it all. Whether he is prepared or not, the fate of the entire continuum depends on whether he can decipher the secrets of the past and secure a future.
In this science fiction adventure, a boy time-travels to an ancient land where he must outrun an enemy as invincible as time to reclaim a powerful crystal and save all that is yet to come
Capricious Gods
B.L. Barger
3/23/2017, Fantasy
In this sequel to The Guardians, Maxine, the Qatar family, a scholar of antiquities, and three mysterious sisters of the stone travel through time to Egypt 2900 BC, in an attempt to find ancient Guardians they believe came to Earth and built a planetary weapon array. Their mission is to locate the engineer of this ancient weapon so that they can return him and themselves to modern Earth and re-activate the array to use against the imminent attack of a second swarm. Almost immediately, Maxine and company are repeatedly threatened and in conflict with the ancient Guardians they encounter in the past who now call themselves Ra, Osiris, and Baal.
After Osiris attempts to have them killed, Maxine and her companions are forced to flee Egypt, but not before Ra reveals to them that a Guardian named Atlas is the one they must find, as he designed the weapon they seek. In this effort to locate Atlas our travelers go to Greece, and with the help of Baal, they enlist the aid of Poseidon and his Nereid wife, Amphitrite, to create a strategy that could free Atlas from his imprisonment by the reviled Zeus.
This plan requires Maxine and company to engage with yet another Guardian, Leto, and her crew of Titans, and to insert themselves into the aftermath of a civil war while lies, sabotage, and an active volcano threaten to undo everything. Will Maxine and her Guardians succeed, or will they all become trapped in the past and leave Earth defenseless against final annihilation?
Endings (King Arthurs and Her Knights, Book 7)
K.M. Shea, @KM_Shea
3/23/2017, Young Adult, Fantasy
The thrilling conclusion to the King Arthurs and Her Knights Series!
Britt has finally settled into her life as King Arthur. Her knights know who she really is, her lands are peaceful, and she has friends and a family she loves. But all of this is threatened when Rome, led by Emperior Lucius, invades.
In order to repel the Romans and assure Camelot’s survival, Britt must achieve Merlin’s greatest ambition and unite all of Britain. Will she succeed, or will she fall on the battlefield?
The King Arthurs and Her Knights series pegs a modern girl against the strange events of ancient England. The stories are based on Arthurian legends and are sprinkled with humor, love, and a dash of magic.
Return to Nomandy
John R. Taylor
3/23/2017, Military
June 6th, 2014, the 70th anniversary of D-Day. Over 1,000 paratroopers will jump in Normandy, France, to honor the Allied soldiers who made the historic WWII airborne assault. A platoon from the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team is in the lead plane. The planes approach the drop zone and . . .
In the blink of an eye, day turns to night. The platoon’s plane is now the only one in the sky. They encounter massive anti-aircraft flak trying to shoot them down. Platoon Leader Lieutenant Spike Wilson is astounded. Where are they? More important, he realizes, is not where they are, but when.
Wilson has a revelation. A rift in the space-time continuum propelled them from one time dimension to another into the actual D-Day Invasion. How? Why? Will their actions inadvertently change future events? Will they return to 2014? These are the dilemmas the time-traveling platoon face as they wander the battlefields trying to stay alive long enough to find their way home.
Time Burrito
Aaron Frale, @AaronFrale
3/23/2017, Humor
With great burrito comes great responsibility.
Pete’s food truck at the University of New Mexico isn’t going well. Seniors dare freshman to eat his burritos. Frats use them for pledges and pranks. Rumors fly around campus that they are chupacabra ground up with rat.
Pete needs a change, and it comes in the form of a physics experiment gone awry. After being sucked into the past, he stumbles across an ingredient that goes great in one of his creations.
First, there was Marty McFly. Then there was Bill and Ted. And now Pete—
Anachronist (The Infinity Engines, Book 1)
Andrew Hastie, @InfinityEngines
3/24/2017, Young Adult, Science Fiction
Have you ever wished you could go back and change the past?
Joshua Jones has many times. He’s spent the last five years trying to forget one tragic day – the day his best friend died in a car crash.
Fate has not been kind to Josh, in all of his seventeen years he has never really had any luck. He’s not a bad kid; bad things just seem to happen to him. That is until the day he breaks into the house of the local eccentric, the Colonel, and discovers that he’s a watchman for the Oblivion Order, a secret organisation of time travellers.
Anachronist follows Josh’s journey through the untrodden paths of history as he learns more about his abilities. The colonel teaches him how to use historical artefacts to reach key points in the past, and introduces him to other members of his Order. He meets Caitlin and her friends, their mission to maintain the time continuum – and the dark forces that exist beyond it. However, just as Josh begins to feel like he belongs, his past comes back to haunt him and he is forced to face the personal demons that he has buried for so long…
Path to Old Talbot
Jordan Elizabeth, @JayliaDarkness
3/24/2017, Young Adult, Fantasy
Thirteen-year-old Charity can escape her unpleasant reality by stepping through the parlor closet of her mother’s new home, a mansion built in the 1800’s. In her hometown of Talbot, New York, in the year 1880, she doesn’t have to worry about her depressed father skipping his medications or her mother flirting with her coworker.
Instead, she gets to know the hatter’s son, who shows her a lifestyle of manners and pride. Few have ever accepted Charity’s old-fashioned ways…until now. However, old Talbot can’t banish the present. Charity can stay in the mansion, with access to the hatter’s son in the past, and the prospect of a steady family unit with her mother and the new man in her mother’s life, or she can go back to her father, who has been given the option to straighten out his life and join them in their new home.
Instead, his world unravels, and he spirals into violence and self-harm. Torn between two worlds, Charity knows that if she doesn’t help him, she may lose him forever if he follows through on his threats of self-destruction.
The Clockwork Map
Patrick Frank Maher
3/25/2017, Young Adult, Steampunk
The greatest treasure in the universe, hidden in time. Only one can unlock the secret to finding it.
William Morelight, the young collector of wotnots, is about to discover the most incredible time travelling device ever, the Clockwork Map. So begins a quest back in time to a dark Victorian London, ruled by a mad clockwork magician.
Indeed bookworm, set your compass to times past and yet to be as we set sail in search of the greatest treasure of them all. A piratical steampunk epic for readers of all ages.
Aloha Jack (Saving Time, Book 2)
Monique Martin, @_MoniqueMartin_
3/27/2017, Adventure
Intelligence officer Jack Wells’ latest time traveling assignment takes him to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. One of the Navy’s best codebreakers is about to be murdered.
Jack has no idea who wants him killed or why. But if he doesn’t stop the murder, history will change. With the attack on Pearl Harbor imminent, Jack has only days to save the codebreaker or the allies will lose World War II …
The Compatibility Code
Tyler Dahl and Curtis Lee
3/27/2017, Science Fiction
In 2020, the human race perfects biomechanical engineering to transform the body into a superior specimen. The body has increased muscular strength, is capable of molecular rejuvenation and leveraging nerves to transport information.
Since then, they have referred to themselves as the Biom race and have been plagued with solving one major flaw in their design: genetic compatibility.
Over the next six decades, the families of Pilife Nichols and Joseph Reid, descendants of the original Biom architects, reach a breaking point that threatens to end the Biom race all together.
In yet another attempt to best Joseph and secure his own place in history, Pilife uses the resources of his family’s company to solve the compatibility code.
The results of Pilife’s actions are something he never expected. To cover up his mistake, he frames one of his low level employees, Trevor Hastings, as being a rogue researcher responsible for what has happened.
As luck has it, Joseph stumbles upon a clue that takes him on a thrilling and twisted journey to reverse the damage that Pilife has caused.
Pilife, struggling as his world falls apart around him, engages in a heated battle with Trevor and Joseph to keep them from exposing him as the true culprit of the now worldwide epidemic.
Will Trevor and Joseph find a way to right Pilife’s wrongs and just how far will they need to go? Or does Pilife triumph over the combined efforts of Trevor and Joseph?
The Penitentiary (Doctor Who: The Time Splicer, Book 3)
Cour M.
3/27/2017, Science Fiction
After the Doctors have been captured, Martha and Satsuki have to save them. Yet even if they do, there is still a crisis on Mecrellas, where the threat is rising higher than ever. Unfortunately, nothing can cease the conflict that will rise between the Mecrellans and the planets that the Clockwork Droids have pitted against each other.
Unfortunately, the next adventure has already begun after the last crisis has ended, because the Doctors are now captured and imprisoned on a prison on Jupiter 6: The Eastern State Penitentiary. While Martha and Satsuki are attempting to save them from without, the Doctors have to protect themselves from within.
The Night Mark
Tiffany Reisz, @tiffanyreisz
3/28/2017, Romance
Faye Barlow is drowning. After the death of her beloved husband, Will, she cannot escape her grief and most days can barely get out of bed. But when she’s offered a job photographing South Carolina’s storied coast, she accepts. Photography, after all, is the only passion she has left.
In the quaint beach town, Faye falls in love again when she sees the crumbling yet beautiful Bride Island lighthouse and becomes obsessed with the legend surrounding The Lady of the Light—the keeper’s daughter who died in a mysterious drowning in 1921. Like a moth to a flame, Faye is drawn to the lighthouse for reasons she can’t explain. While visiting it one night, she is struck by a rogue wave and a force impossible to resist drags Faye into the past—and into a love story that is not her own.
Fate is changeable. Broken hearts can mend. But can she love two men separated by a lifetime?
The Ship Beyond Time (The Girl From Everywhere, Book 2)
Heidi Heilig, @heidiheilig
3/28/2017, Young Adult, Fantasy
Nix has spent her whole life journeying to places both real and imagined aboard her time-traveling father’s ship. And now it’s finally time for her to take the helm. Her future lies bright before her—until she learns that she is destined to lose the one she loves.
Desperate to change her fate, Nix sails her crew to a mythical utopia to meet another Navigator who promises to teach her how to manipulate time. But everything in this utopia is constantly changing, and nothing is what it seems. Not even her relationship with Kash: best friend, thief, charmer extraordinaire.
Heidi Heilig weaves fantasy, history, and romance together to tackle questions of free will, fate, and what it means to love another person. At the center of this adventure are extraordinary, complicated, and multicultural characters who leap off the page, and an intricate, recognizable world that has no bounds. This sequel—and conclusion—to The Girl from Everywhere includes five black-and-white maps of historical and mythical locations. Fans of Rachel Hartman, Rae Carson, and Outlander will be swept away.
Time Seer (Book of Cael, Song of Liro 1)
Cassia Meare, @cassia_meare
3/30/2017, Young Adult, Space Fantasy
He wants to be bad, she wants to save the world.
Young Captain Valeria Tylia has often been commended for her bravery. So when she detects a threat from the barbarian Outer Planets, she must travel to mighty Cael, the center of the civilized worlds, to warn the emperor that they are about to suffer an unexpected attack that might end civilization.
His Majesty, Gaius Lucius Drusus, has only just returned from a cruel exile imposed by his mother and her lover. He doesn’t seem too concerned about an invasion, though it has been foretold by the Time Seers. In fact, he is more interested in Valeria’s shape under her uniform and her irresistible freckles than in Armageddon.
Valeria isn’t the most patient of people, and when she fails to make the detestable, ironic Gaius understand the seriousness of the situation, she kidnaps him and takes him to Earth, to show him what will be left of their planets if the barbarians cross their shields.
Her reckless decision throws her and the emperor onto an unexpected path of adventure and discovery. Through the dark alleys of old Earth cities, sunken palaces, deserts and icy wastes, they battle bounty hunters, genetically-bred hybrids, inconvenient suitors and try to control a strange new power of the emperor’s in a desperate race to put a mega weapon together.
Their love grows under the fabric of space-time, as Valeria begins to understand that Gaius may after all be the prince that has long been promised to save their worlds.
Follow the adventures of the brilliant Gaius and the brave Valeria, on a future Earth still full of unexpected beauty. Meet two star-crossed lovers born beyond the stars in the first part of The Book of Cael, the Song of Liro.
Echo of Whispers (Echo of Whispers, Book 1)
C.L Bush, @authorclbush
3/31/2017, Young Adult, Paranormal/Horror
The stereotypical small town was never more apparent than Richmond, New Hampshire; idyllic year-round and the perfect place to raise a family. But what many didn’t know was the evil that resided on the edge of town in the place known as the Whispering Woods.
A series of murders rocked the town nearly two decades ago. Only one had ever come out of the Whispering Woods alive, though unable to speak but to say a few words…
Stop the Whispers…
Now the murders have started again and the town is on edge. When a group of friends from the small high school loses one of their own to the woods, the hunt to find answers leads them on a trail of unexpected horror and a secret that has been hidden for centuries.
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