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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

'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...

Simon Blane was always prepared for everything and anything even though it didn’t always appears as if it was. He’d always believed that little trick of appearing oblivious had kept him alive at the end of more than a few intense and volatile situations. Including the one that just arrived at his doorstep. The chilling message from his dead best friend’s sister telling him she was in trouble and needed his help might have come as a surprise, but he was prepared. In a number of ways, the timing couldn’t be better, especially considering the dangerous and idiotic situation going on ...

This program features a bonus conversation between the author and New York Times–bestselling author Sally Hepworth. Anna Downes's extraordinary next thriller Red River Road follows a woman desperate to discover what happened to her sister on a solo road trip through the Australian outback...

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....

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 ...

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...

Set on a lush Greek island, The Greek Escape by Karen Swan is a Sunday Times bestseller, and the perfect getaway for fans of Victoria Hislop and Santa Montefiore. 'This irresistible story will sweep you right up into its pages and keep you there' – Heat Before every new beginning, there must...

Meg Butler sets sail on the Grand Voyager on a luxury world cruise, eager to visit 30 countries before she's 30. But she hasn't planned on running into murder! The ship is hosting a Bingo tournament for the length of the cruise. Several passengers are competing for the grand prize which is rumored to be in six figures. Meg runs into a friendly older man who boasts of being a skilled player. He has developed a fool proof strategy that is guaranteed to win him big money. Meg is warmed by his affectionate manner toward her and feels he is the father figure she has always yearned for. Disaster ...

"The Thursday Murder Club meets Black Mirror in this witty, fast-paced speculative workplace thriller about the high-stakes world of corporate time travel, ancient cover-ups, and the customer support agents who have to sound calm for a living." Epoch Escapes exists to provide safe, structured, and responsible access to humanity's shared past. But when a modern tourist stands up in a Titanic lifeboat on the worst night of someone else’s life, it’s just another Tuesday for customer support. Mara Ansari is a Tier Two Support agent at Epoch Escapes, a corporate time-travel conglomerate. For...

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...

“Legally Blonde meets Gladiator in this volcanically hot time travel romp through the streets of ancient Pompeii.” ~ Laney Kaye, Author of HAWAIIAN HURRICANE Twenty-first century Greek goddess Pandia is shaking in her Jimmy Choos. A few weeks ago, she traveled back in time to attend a party, where she accidentally suggested Julius Caesar abandon politics for gardening. Her father, Zeus, summons her to modern Olympus after he discovers her meddling eliminated the month of July. To teach her the importance of fate, he strips Pandia's goddess powers and sentences her to a stint of ...

Dr. John Sullivan attempts to travel forward in time but an unanticipated twist jettisons him back to the year 1779. There, in the midst of a bloody Revolutionary War, he befriends Benjamin Franklin and his personal physician to help care for wounded soldiers at Pennsylvania Hospital. While living with Franklin on Elfreth’s Alley, Sullivan is introduced to a host of our nation’s Founding Fathers including George Washington, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison. Yet the physician takes umbrage with Major General Benedict Arnold, a war hero and the city’s well-respected military ...

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 ...

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 ...