Time Travel Thriller

The online posting of an Oyster Island treasure map leads to murder The opening of the safe at the Majestic revealed several old documents, one of them a treasure map drawn by the pirate Jean Lafitte. Eddie Toledo and Basil Doles rediscover the old map after finding a dead man on the beach. A single clue leads back to the treasure map and perhaps provides a motive for the murder. Who is Amani LeClair? Where is she from, and what is she doing on the island? Is she somehow responsible for the murder? Is the murderer even human? Will Basil and Eddie find out before the island becomes a hunting...

A hundred and fifty years in the future, the United States and China launch a joint mission to send an interstellar voyage to a carbon-rich planet composed almost entirely of diamond. The crew’s mission: to mine the planet of its riches and transport them back to Earth. But what they don’t realize is that they aren’t the first to set foot on this strange new planet…and the original visitors might not be willing to share.

Riley, an orphan boy living in Victorian London, has achieved his dream of becoming a renowned magician, the Great Savano. He owes much of his success to Chevie, a 17-year-old FBI agent who traveled from the future in a time pod and helped him defeat his murderous master, Albert Garrick. But it is difficult for Riley to enjoy his new life, for he has always believed that Garrick will someday, somehow, return to seek vengeance.

SILVER MEDAL "RECOMMENDED READ" IN THE 2024 AUTHOR SHOUT READER READY AWARDS. Is anybody listening? Dr. Alessi Byrne has spent her life studying spatial anomalies to prove string theory. Her work seems to be nothing more than theoretical research until an anomaly opens over Antarctica and transmits a three-word message: Is anybody listening? The message isn’t the only thing to emerge from the anomaly. Something on the other side is having compounding consequences on the planet, and Alessi’s team is unable to crack the code to discover who or what is sending the communication. In ...

When Graham Doubleday built his teleportation machine, he didn't expect it to work, and he sure didn't expect to receive anything. But he has. Every day Graham receives a new transmission, each one more bizarre than the last. Then the objects become personal, items only Graham would understand. So he decides to send a few gadgets of his own. But to discover who is on the other end, Graham Doubleday will have to send the ultimate transmission — himself.

During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath. During a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale. What if there were second chances? And third chances? In fact an infinite number of chances to live your life? Would you eventually be able to save the world from its own inevitable destiny? And would you even want to?

FBI Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast always wants to protect his protegee Constance Greene from harm. But, against all odds, Constance has found a way to travel back in time to New York City in the late 1800s to embark on a dangerous quest: to stop the era's most infamous serial killer, Dr. Enoch Leng from bringing his plans to fruition. If she does, she can finally prevent the events that led to the shocking deaths of her sister and brother. Meanwhile, in present-day New York, Agent Pendergast is desperate to reunite with Constance before she gets stuck in the past forever..

In the late 22nd century, people can extend their lifespans, or simply take a holiday from their lives, by buying themselves extra months or years in the Chronosphere, a place where time moves half a million times slower than in the real world. This series follows the adventures of Raffi Delgado and his friends in the thrilling, dangerous world of the Chronosphere. It's been half a year since the 'Temp-Al Five' escaped the Chronosphere, but something, somewhere, is pulling them back. Time, it seems, has healed nothing. In the thrilling finale of the Chronosphere trilogy, hoverbiker Raffi ...

Huyendo de sus agresores por callejones abandonados,Thomas Hunter apenas se escapa yéndose al techo de un edificio. Luego una balasilenciosa de la noche roza su cabeza... y su mundo se vuelve negro. De lanegrura surge la asombrosa realidad de otro mundo, un mundo donde domina elmal. Un mundo en el que Thomas Hunter se enamora de una mujer hermosa.

Bill Reedy is a deadbeat reporter stuck in a mundane, self-destructive life with little hope for the future, until, one day, a young US Naval officer shows up on his doorstep. Bill is unknowingly transported through time on a journey that will take him to a secret laboratory buried deep within the Appalachian Mountains. Here, he will discover a government secret so dangerous and deadly, those in control will stop at nothing to ensure silence. He will have to use all of his abilities to manipulate those around him in order to get the help he needs to succeed, all while living a double life ...

Traveling to be with her fiance's terminally ill mother in her last days, Saoirse Read expected her introduction to the family's ancestral home would be bittersweet. But the stark thrust of Langdon Hall against the cliff and the hundred darkened windows in its battered walls are almost as forbidding as the woman who lies wasting inside. Her fiance's parents make no secret of their distaste for Saoirse, and their feelings have long since spread to their son. Or perhaps it is only the shadows of her mind suggesting she's unwelcome, seizing on her fears while her beloved grieves?

What if reality isn't what we think it is—and someone found a way to prove it? When brilliant physicist Dr. Marcus Emerson demonstrates a technology capable of altering the fabric of reality itself, he feels he has invented humanity's next big leap forward. However, as test subjects begin to experience vivid other worlds that refuse to remain contained in the laboratory, perception psychologist Dr. Aria Vance learns a horrifying truth: the machine isn't simply altering how people perceive the world; it's fragmenting existence itself. Following the strange disappearance of their most ...

Sarah loves visiting history . . . But a mysterious man in a wide-brimmed hat wrecks the fun. He stalks her through time, threatening to enslave her soul and destroy the facetaker powers. Think again, pal. Sarah might just have a rare soul power of her own. If she can convince iconic historical figures from the Middle Ages to teach her. One is a martyr, the other a mass murderer. But her enemy has his own historical trump card. His name is Spartacus. And there is a reason his body was never found.

Brody Quail is a man without dreams...but he's beginning to live a nightmare. He exists in four different lives, in four simultaneous identities: happy young boy, lovelorn teenager, damaged young man, and a pitiable middle-aged loner. He lives blissfully unaware of his divided nature until a series of increasingly surreal experiences shakes this already fragile equilibrium. Time begins to stop and start for him alone.

He could have avoided it all. But Alfred Favero, Senior Analyst with the IRS, didn’t. To save the woman he loves, he must rewind time itself to learn the secrets that will claim her life. But fate isn’t done with him yet. To get to the truth, he must go undercover to a comic book convention. In costume, no less. The stakes couldn’t be higher. But Alfred is determined that his most challenging case yet will not be his last - because he’ll be darned if he’s going to die wearing pointy ears and face paint.

Lou, a young Black woman, wakes up in an alley in 1930s Los Angeles, nearly naked and with no memory of how she got there or where she’s from. Taken in by a caring foster family, Lou dedicates herself to her education while trying to put her mysterious origins behind her. She’ll go on to become the first Black female journalist at the Los Angeles Times, but Lou’s extraordinary life is about to become even more remarkable.

Book 4 in the Pharaoh Memnet Series, Essence: Utterly Forsaken continues the tale, from the point of view of the fallen angel, Essence. Learn how things that go bump in the night were created! Too big to go in Book 3, Essence needed his own book, written from his point of view. Enjoy it or don't, he really doesn't care, all he cares about is his own children! Learn of life before the fall, how Essence and his kind were created, then experience their horror as they sin and are condemned to the Abyss. Learn of the origins of the major preternatural creatures, and why they are as they are! ...

Beckett Gray thinks the world has ended because all indications lead him to believe that an EMP has struck, and he is woefully unprepared. His car and cell phone have died near the Appalachian Trail, in the Cumberland Gap National Park. Then he and several other hikers find out what has really happened! Will they survive this savage time? Can they find their home again? Or will they have to make a new home in an unforgiving time?

Face Off with Shakespeare and Mozart! In Time Won’t Let Me, Chant Baker finds himself drawn back to the world where he first met Mary—Shakespeare’s London. This time, however, he’s not just a visitor. As he dives deeper into Elizabethan politics and Shakespeare’s circle, Chant realizes that history is more fragile than he thought. From the bustling theaters of London to the royal courts of Vienna, where he encounters the musical genius of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Chant is on a high-stakes journey through time. But even as Chant tackles the complexities of the past, his connection ...

For psychic Mira Morales, it begins when a crazed woman accosts a jogger and demands to know where she can find Mira. In a confrontation, the lunatic is killed by the jogger and turns to stone before she hits the ground. Mira reads the body and makes a startling discovery. The stone woman is from 2144, where the descendants of climate change survivors—Normals and White Crows—live in a giant dome. Crows represent nature’s rapid evolutionary leap to save humanity by endowing people with extraordinary abilities.