Time Travel Thriller

He had everything—until time took it all away. Peter Bois is one of Nantucket’s golden boys: rich, powerful, arrogant. And alienated from his family. During a picture-perfect beach day with his wife and kids, a sudden riptide pulls him under—and when he resurfaces, he’s not in the 21st century anymore. It’s 1821, and he’s on the deck of a Nantucket whaling ship sailing in a brutal, unforgiving sea. Stripped of wealth and status, Peter is now a greenhand with everything to learn and everything to lose. His only lifeline is a mysterious crewman who looks eerily like the best ...

Dark State ups the ante on the already volatile situations laid out in the sleek techno-thriller Empire Games, the start to Stross' new story-line and a perfect entry point for new listeners, in The Merchant Princes series . In the near-future, the collision of two nuclear superpowers across timelines, one in the midst of a technological revolution and the other a hyper-police state, is imminent. In Commissioner Miriam Burgeson's timeline, her top level agents run a high risk extraction of a major political player.

The adventure of Glenfair continues in the story of the android Pi. During the final battle of Glenfair the wires that fed power to her positronic memory were severed. Through a combination of human impulse and fate Pi is reactivated but does not remember anyone or who she is. Through reading the journals of Master Fields and Master Rollins she finds a new purpose in becoming the new protector of Glenfair. She will drift in and out of peoples lives through the centuries until she embarks on a perilous journey to solve a mystery that will unite the Sabatlol kingdom with Glenfair and usher in...

In this engaging 20th Century, Fictional Historical Drama you will follow the fortunes of the wealthy and titled Benbrook family, owners of the grand Cotswold estate known as Allworth Park. You will witness the state of bruising and distress caused by the suicidal death of their children’s tutor, Cynthia Heywood. Miss Heywood, a young, educated girl, is besotted by the lustful advances of Lady Caroline’s handsome young Godson and professional womanizer, Captain Teddy Danvers. Her relationship with long time lesbian lover Herminie Wilson is under threat as the scandalous activities of ...

On a warm Fourth of July in the quiet New York town of Byram Hills, Nick Quinn watches as his wife and daughter die—along with his closest friends and family—in an unprecedented terrorist attack. Amid the disaster, Nick is approached by one of his closest friends, gunshot and dying. With his last breath, he hands Nick an antique pocket watch that possesses the power to rewrite the recent past.

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..

A thunderous roar echoes through the ages as a Tyrannosaur fossil is unearthed in the same geological stratum as Native American artifacts, signaling the beginning of Marshall Stanton’s transformation from history professor to prehistoric adventurer. He is a stranger in a strange world that time forgot, and his only hope is unraveling the mystery of returning home.

Seventeen-year-old Molly's recurrent nightmares become waking visions after she nearly drowns at a party. Soon she's witnessing events through the eyes of a girl who lived in her father's house nearly a century before.

With the whole of human history altered, Denny Younger may be the last rewinder in existence - and the last person on Earth with a chaser unit capable of time travel. While caring for his ailing sister, Denny must discover a way to recharge his device before he's left with no defense against a past that wants him dead. Before long, Denny notices a mysterious stranger following him - keeping tabs on Denny, his family, and his friends. Is Denny just paranoid?

Jack Rybicki is a high school senior who loves his girl, likes to party, and doesn't have much of a plan for his life. Then fate plucks him from obscurity and Jack, now renamed Jack Noble by his management team, becomes one of the most famous people on the planet. A teenager who likes to indulge himself with limitless resources is not the best recipe for a successful life. But, it's never too late in Middle Falls.

Newly appointed US Naval officer, Ensign Austin, is about to stumble onto the most powerful capability the world has ever known. Little does he know the submarine he has been assigned to has been secretly equipped with an experimental government time travel device that the crew will soon be testing. Those in control will stop at nothing to ensure the test goes as planned, confirming that they will soon have the power to transform our world, or destroy it completely. Things go awry when he is contaminated with a drop of the device’s fuel source, mentally connecting him to the heart of the ...

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 ...

In this novel, horror author Brian L. Blank temporarily departs from writing his favorite topic—horror. Yet he still writes another suspenseful novel—this time for all ages. As with all his novels, this one, too, will keep the reader turning the pages to find out what happens next. Twelve-year-old Aaron Kellerman’s mother was in a bad car accident ten years ago, leaving her paralyzed from the neck down. She spends her days lying in bed, blankly watching the television set in front of her. While at the mall, picking out a tie for Father’s Day, quite by accident Aaron discovers a way ...

Please Note: This story is also part of book 10 of The Hunter Legacy series, The Long Road to Gaia. Thirteen doesn't like humans. The last thing he wants is to be assigned a mission to babysit them. Given a choice, he'd happily let them blow themselves up, after he saved all the cats first. Exactly how humans could ever have anything to do with galaxy wide consequences is completely beyond his ability to understand. When asked to perform an intervention, there was always freewill to choose not to. But in this case, does he really have a choice? This is a 5000 word short story, set in The ...

The Bloodline War has begun and blood will soon flow across Europe. Juniper St. James has one goal: escape to England. A horde of vampires stand in her way including the one who has captured her heart. The future teeters on a knife's edge as the crimson tide of destiny threatens to engulf her. To guide her, she has three gifts from an alchemist, two brave bards, and a prophecy of the future. Can she flee with her life or will she become one of the undead?

Max and Liz have escaped the mysterious time phenomenon by traveling to the Mars colony, which promises a whole new, exciting, and secure life. But they've left behind someone important to them. Should they embark on a journey from which no one has ever returned? And why does everyone seem to put obstacles in their way even as they try? The physicist and the mathematician must contend with forces that cannot be swayed by logical arguments while time, at an accelerating pace, is running out for their friend on Earth.

What if, hundreds of years from now, scientists invent a time machine? Wouldn't it be nice if your great-grandkid used it to send you a winning lottery combination that would make you a multimillionaire? After winning a four-hundred-million dollar jackpot with the numbers he received from the future, Ted Duplass is as happy as can be. He buys a house in an upscale neighborhood, a luxury car, a Rolex watch, and a whole bunch of other things he couldn't afford before. Life is great. The fun stops when Ted learns that he's going to be murdered by the end of the year. Fortunately, he knows the ...

Targeting the scum of humanity, Arielle's next mission of preventing a murder presents problems she’s never faced before...ones that will test her limits. Under pressure to complete the mission, Arielle and her dedicated team plunge further into a dark underworld of crime. The clock is ticking. Will she be too late to save an innocent life and uncover the truth?

Charles Stross builds a new series with Empire Games. Expanding on the world he created in the Family Trade series, a new generation of paratime travelers walk between parallel universes. The year is 2020. It's 17 years since the Revolution overthrew the last king of the New British Empire, and the newly reconstituted North American Commonwealth is developing rapidly, on course to defeat the French and bring democracy to a troubled world.

A young woman is murdered in Middle Falls, Oregon in 1952. The police never make an arrest, but the town convicts Ned Summers of the crime anyway. He banishes himself to a small house in the woods where he lives alone for the rest of his life. When he dies, he opens his eyes back in 1952, just a few days before the murder occurred. Can Ned Summers stop the murder and save his friend?