No Time Like The Present

The Apprentice Time Walkers

No Time Like the Present

#1 Best-Selling Children’s Book on Kindle (October 2025, Amazon.com)

When sixteen-year-old Addison Vale visits Kelvingrove Museum on a school trip, she expects dusty displays and forgotten stories — not a sealed railway carriage that hums with life.

Inside, a watch begins to tick backwards.
A brass key glows in her hand.
And before she can call for help, Addison and her friends are pulled through time into Carrick Bay, a seaside village trapped between the Second World War — and something far stranger.

The villagers speak in riddles. The church bell rings at the wrong hour. Beneath the chapel lies the Book of Moments — a volume that remembers everything that ever was, and everything that still could be.

When Addison discovers that every reader leaves a mark inside the Book, she realises their arrival isn’t an accident. Time itself has been waiting for them.

Guided by Rosie, a girl who seems to know Addison before they’ve met, the group must unravel the Book’s secret before the clock strikes 11:04 — the minute when time stands still.

But the closer they get, the more reality begins to unravel: clocks forget their numbers, mirrors lose their reflections, and two pale twins appear wherever shadow meets light.

As past and present collide, Addison faces an impossible choice —
Close the Book and lose what she loves most... or open it and risk rewriting time itself.

A haunting, lyrical YA time-slip adventure about friendship, memory, and the echoes that connect us across generations.

Because every key remembers its lock —
and some locks remember you.

Fans of V.E. Schwab, Maggie Stiefvater, and The Book Thief will fall in love with this moving, time-twisting mystery.

“Some moments never end — they just wait to be found.”