Twisted Travel

She spent her life studying his death. Now, she is the only one who can stop it. Dr. Aris Thorne knows exactly how the story ends. As a modern historian, she has built her career on the biography of Julian St. Clair, the ruthless Duke of Ainsworth. She knows about his cold reputation, his political scandals, and the assassination that ends his life in 1814. She knows it all as ink on a page—until a storm-charged artifact hurls her two hundred years into the past and onto the Duke’s rain-soaked estate. Julian St. Clair is a man living on borrowed time. Burdened by duty and hunted by a ...

This fiction novella describes a young man learning from his traveling adventures. His motorcycle takes him to work in a sawmill in Montana, an air show in Wisconsin, a boat yard near Seattle. Beekeeping, screen printing, computers, playing jazz in a nightclub, college, presenting a technical paper in New York, and installing a computer in Germany. He mourns with a duck that lost his mate on the TransCanada Highway. He helps rescue lost fishermen, builds a house for a friend, joins a church for community not religion, and observes how fish, like us, build homes for their families. He ...

Whispered legends in an ancient land. A mysterious death behind closed doors. Can a visiting antiques expert separate truth from folklore before another life is lost? British antiques expert, Georgina Carey, is intrigued to travel to the windswept town of Essaouira, on Morocco’s Atlantic coast. Tasked with cataloguing a family’s crumbling collection in a historic house, her arrival unsettles more than just the layers of dust. But her work has barely begun when she discovers the body of a mysterious guest within the Moroccan villa’s timeworn walls. She expects the police to bring ...

Jake McDonald’s life has hit rock bottom. He’s lost his job, and his wife and two children have lost their faith in him. It seems that everything that could go wrong has happened, and he now has nowhere to turn. In a final effort to salvage his financial problems, Jake turned from banking to lobster fishing off Santa Barbara Island. While scuba diving, he discovers an underwater cave that extends deep beneath the island’s shoreline. As he swims into the cave looking for fish and lobster, he finds an alien artifact. This discovery drastically transforms his life and changes the history...

Four brothers. Two missions. One explosive read. Jennifer Lynn Barnes returns to the world of her #1 bestselling, TikTok sensation Inheritance Games trilogy, and the stakes have never been higher. Grayson Hawthorne was raised as the heir apparent to his billionaire grandfather, taught from the...

Quinn feels obligated to attend a party given by Agnes Meek, one of her former patients at the mental health clinic. Agnes has always been troubled. Winning the lottery a few years ago only seemed to add to her problems. Now, she has a new man in her life that she’s anxious for Quinn to meet. Quinn meets the younger and very attractive boyfriend and feels he’s only after Agnes’ money. When he turns up dead the day after the party, Agnes is the main suspect. Quinn doesn’t believe Agnes is capable of murder, but why does Agnes seem to be slowly losing her grip on reality? Quinn and ...

'Pemberley, murder, hilarity and a romance to span the ages . . . This is the perfect book to unwind with' – Rachel Wolf, author of Five Nights Cosy, quirky and utterly enthralling, A Crime Through Time is the debut from Amelia Blackwell – the start of a series where crime, time travel and...

Bloomsbury presents Shadows Upon Time by Christopher Ruocchio read by Samuel Roukin The seventh and final novel of the galaxy-spanning series merges the best of space opera and epic fantasy, as Hadrian Marlowe at last lights the greatest fire humanity has ever seen. The trumpet sounds. The end...

Georgina Darcy travels through time to save the Brontës from a killer in The Haunting of a Brontë, a wildly amusing cosy crime adventure from Amelia Blackwell, author of A Crime Through Time. Pemberley, 1799. Like many a Regency heroine, Georgiana Darcy is pining for the man she loves. The...

Murder at the Midnight Buffet The Grand Voyager is sailing in the Caribbean and the cruise line has planned a midnight buffet to pamper the passengers. The doors are thrown open as the clock strikes the hour where a ten foot chocolate fountain steals the show. Barely a minute later, it lists like the Titanic and crashes on the floor. Amidst the cries and confusion, Meg is the only one who notices the body on the floor, with a red blot spreading on her chest. Ship security is eager to downplay the crime. The woman had no family and so there is nobody demanding an investigation. But tender ...

Jackpot Winner Dead on Cruise Ship The Grand Voyager is in Europe and Meg Butler and friends are making the most of it. Meg is looking forward to visiting Monte Carlo and trying her luck at the casino. She learns of a secret pact made by a group of passengers who pool their money and agree to split the winnings. None of them win but back on the ship, the rumor mill is in full swing. Apparently, someone has won the jackpot and speculation is high around which passenger won and how much. The frenzy around the jackpot reaches a crescendo when a passenger is found dead in his cabin. Meg has no ...

Mystery comes ashore when a megayacht arrives in Rhodes, Greece. Police Sergeant Petrina Pappas is faced with a puzzling case of a body found floating in the commercial harbor. But when she's blocked from questioning the crew of the suspicious yacht, her investigation takes a dangerous turn. As she digs deeper, she realizes that the truth may be more elusive than she thought. As tensions rise, the stakes become higher. Who will come out on top: the good guys or the bad?

Police investigator Petrina Pappas is summoned when a body is found at the ancient Acropolis in Rhodes. The case starts with no shortage of witnesses trying to help. At least until the body disappears. Just trying to find the dead body again ignites a whirlwind of trouble for Petrina, and everyone else involved. Witnesses quickly turn into suspects, but when the dead actress shows up alive, not all is forgiven or forgotten. Then a dead body is found in the exact same spot the next day, turning everything in Petrina's case upside-down. Treating witnesses as suspects, no one is above ...

Woman Brutally Murdered on Cruise The luxury cruise ship Grand Voyager is headed full speed to Dubai after stops in Sri Lanka and India. Meg has just attended a big fat royal wedding and is looking forward to some relaxing sea days. Her hot dinner date is interrupted by the announcement of a passenger's death. Rushing to the spot, Meg is sad to learn it is her new friend who was celebrating her 50th wedding anniversary. Further investigation reveals the old woman was stabbed in her suite. Meg can't believe the bashful mother of two that security apprehended is capable of such a heinous ...

Death is burning with deadly heat and fumes towards them. They stand on the edge of a tall skyscraper's roof, a raging fire roaring towards them. There is no escape. They take each other’s hands and kiss for the last time before they choose to leap to their deaths together. Twist! They are rescued. An older dog, blind in one eye, limps across a lonely street, thinking it is safe. Suddenly a roaring engine is heard; a drunken driver crashes around a corner and weaves out of control for the helpless dog. Twist! The dog is saved. Neither the dog nor the young couple knows what just happened....

She built a machine to bend time. She never meant to break it. When Professor Philippa Harris publicly demonstrates her revolutionary time device, the impossible happens. She dies. Twenty-three years later, her son Isaac receives a mysterious inheritance: a metal device that should not exist—and a chance to step into the past. One impulsive decision sends him face to face with the mother he barely remembers… one week before the experiment that killed her. Together, they uncover a horrifying truth: her death was no accident. But saving her creates a paradox that could twist reality ...

A near future fiction space exploration story of strength, fortitude and growth of the first woman and next man to walk on the moon, inspired by the astronauts of the 21st century. Mike and Sue prepare to make history for NASA on the Moon ... but is it the history they expected? A geologist with a passion for space, Mike Trellis enjoys carefree life. As a US Navy test pilot and young mother, Sue Bright dreams of being the first woman on Mars. Mike and Sue are new trainee astronauts for NASA as it prepares to return to the Moon after 50 years. Do they have the right stuff that their ...

On the night of her 52nd birthday, Karachai “Kai” Ivy-Morgan’s world still feels familiar. She is a married mother of two grown sons, a respected therapist, a woman who has spent a lifetime carrying everyone else’s weight with grace, humor, and a quiet resilience that makes people assume she will always be okay. But life has a way of shifting beneath your feet long before the ground actually cracks. After an unexpected tragedy shatters the life she knew, Kai is plunged into a grief so heavy it bends the edges of time itself. Her marriage strains. Her spirit fractures. Her days blur ...

Jude Deveraux plunges a modern-day woman into the mysteries of the past – where an enchanting love awaits. Bestselling romance writer Hayden Lane has found her soul mate – or rather, created him: he’s her latest fictional hero. And she’s totally obsessed with him. Barely noticing when...

Abbey Shore never intended to be the savior of the world: it was just something that happened--like her father's tragic death and the fact that she's now poor and "flipping" houses in the Chicago suburbs to finish college. And there's more: behind a crumbling wall in her current renovation, a swirling vortex hides. It's a gate, a portal--and it will not only case her into the arms and power of the enigmatic yet doomed Dr. Shane Maddox, but also into the clutches of Lucinda, the eerie, leather-clad beauty who shadowed his every move in the Sacred Heart ER. Abbey will soon be one hundred ...