Into the Nexus

Time Diving, Book 4

By: Craig Robertson

Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith

Matthew Dunsratty has had quite the lives—more than he can even count.

After one death-defying adventure after another, he's ready for some well-deserved downtime. So he's gone to a hot beach in Mareta, a sleepy fishing village in southern Portugal. The year is 1964. He hopes only to flirt with bikinied tourists and drink cold Sagres beers.

But two things seem to follow Matt wherever and whenever he goes. A chance to help someone in need, and trouble-trouble-trouble. In Mareta, he discovers that a local crazy lady has a most compelling backstory. Matt decides to change the past and heal her pain. Easier said than done. Matt's attempts to right this wrong are, um...complicated.

The most evil, hateful time diver ever is trying his level best to kill Matt. How bad an apple is Morfran Gethin? He imported the black plague not once, but twice to Western Europe, he started the Great Fire of London in 1666, and now he wants to explode a hydrogen bomb over New York. Yeah, he's nothing but bad news on the doorstep.

Fortunately, Matt has learned how to run. He bobs and weaves to Australia in 1950, Portugal in 1964 and 2070, Montana in 1977, Korea in the present day, and California in 2222. Oh, and to a Moon base in 2080. But still, Morfran is on his tail. The fiend is relentless and merciless. Matt slowly realizes that there may be only one safe place for him to rest: the nexus of time. That's the mysterious realm where time divers can visit any time they want, but they can never leave. The nexus dwellers will keep the time travelers safe...forever. A fate worse than death? You make that call. But for Matt and his ilk, it's a miserable eternity.

Can Matt stay one step ahead of Morfran long enough to restore a woman's sanity? Will he be able to save a child with a terminal illness? What if the only way to achieve these goals is to ask his future self to make the ultimate sacrifice? And will he ever get back to that beach and all those bikinis? The only way to find out is to listen to Into The Nexus. The good news is that it's a great story.

©2024 Craig Robertson (P)2024 Podium Audio

The Terrifying Nexus ... and Out

Craig Robertson definitely loves his time travel stories. (So do I.) Seeing the building story of Matthew Dunsratty is intriguing and dramatic, well thought out, and, as usual, witty and fun. It's nice that we have a story without Jon Ryan (as fun as he is!) that contemplates implications of time travel for an everyday person. Seeing the ramped up stakes for our everyday-man who is more capable than even he realized keeps the story gripping and edge-of-your-seat while grounded in everyday mundanity.