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Brought to you by Penguin. CAN YOU STOP A MURDER WHEN IT'S ALREADY HAPPENED? THE BOOK EVERYONE HAS BEEN TALKING ABOUT It's every parent's nightmare. Your happy, funny, innocent son commits a terrible crime: murdering a complete stranger. You don't know who. You don't know why. You only know your...

It's long been known that if a thing can go wrong, it will. With knobs on, usually. Disasters start to pile up. A new colleague with no respect for the past and a great deal to prove. Historians lost in time. And - worst of all - Rosie Lee on her very first jump. Then there's the small matter of Max's dishonourable discharge. From Tudor England to the Tower of Babel - it's all going horribly wrong. Jobless and homeless, Max receives an offer she can't refuse. Another time, another place. A refuge, perhaps. She's got that wrong, too.

Drake, a retired police detective, receives a call in the dead of night from an alien-obsessed podcaster. He hastily departs for Montana the following morning. The phenomenon continues all over the globe. What are they? What do they mean? Britt is on assignment for a digital magazine when she encounters one of the Glass in a tragic boating accident, leaving her no choice but to follow the lead. Panic ensues as mysterious creatures are sighted.

A contemporary woman finds herself immersed in the body of a ninth-century runaway, after accidentally engaging the cyclic properties of the fifth dimension. She must find a way to survive and bide her time until a rescue can be arranged, or else, be lost to the ages.

Frank continues the search for his brother, Jake, but when he meets a stranger with shocking information, he's forced to face a familiar enemy. A woman named Sophie Porter travels to Rook Mountain in search of her sister's killer. What she finds there will draw her into the fight against Zed. Jake Hinkle only wanted to save his family, but now he's trapped in a strange forest where it's only safe to go out at night. A book with the symbol of a broken world on the cover is his only chance at survival.

Barnabus’ nephew is behaving oddly. Calling upon Doctor Humphrey for assistance has not been particularly helpful because the good doctor’s diagnosis of demonic possession is clearly preposterous. Even the demon currently ensconced on the front-room couch agrees it’s preposterous. But then, how else to explain the portal to another world through which his nephew and Humphrey have just now disappeared? Barnabus knows their only chance of rescue is for Barnabus J. Wildebear himself to step up and go through that portal.

A man from 2008 falls 48 floors from a building in Seattle and wakes up in 1815 England. A woman in 1815 England watches a bright star fall from the sky. She travels to the future but can’t stay due to her lack of immunity to the 21st-century diseases. Michael Drury and Emma Wallace have fallen in love but are torn between two worlds. He has family in the 21st century. She wants to stay with him but continues to grow very ill very fast. Spanning almost 200 years, will their love be able to exist in the same time?

For years, Elise has been donning corsets, sneaking into castles, and lying through her teeth to enforce the Place in Time Travel Agency's 10 essential rules of time travel. Someone has to ensure that travel to the past isn't abused, and most days she welcomes the challenge of tracking down and retrieving clients who have run into trouble on their historical vacations. But when a dangerous secret organization kidnaps her and coerces her into jumping to the future on a high-stakes assignment, she's got more to worry about than just the time-space continuum.

When Dr. Wells, the head of the Place in Time Travel Agency, learns that someone's trying to track down the ancestors of his star employee, there are few people he can turn to without revealing her secrets. But who better to jump down the timeline and rescue Elise from being snuffed out of existence generations before she's born than the very person whose life she saved a 100 years in the future?

Dashiell Hammett meets Kurt Vonnegut in this fast-paced science fiction thriller. Plot twists, espionage, and back-stabbing are all delivered with sharp-witted dialogue. It's a whirlwind ride through history, time, and space, as our hero, Zeta, finds love, loses love, commits murder, and goes on the lam. Experience his home planet, Numa, through his eyes, as he becomes the victim of corporate treachery. Find out why The History Force has been modifying Earth's history.