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If you're a woman with a big brain but a lust for beach-reading, do not miss the premiere of Szabo-Cohen's The Summerman Time Travel Matchmaking Agency with its mind-blowing premise and addictive writing. In Book One: Open for Business, meet the Summerman sisters of Brooklyn NY, who have just inherited their family's matchmaking business. Dagny, spiritually gifted beyond her own imaginings, inadvertently sends client Amanda Fox back 150 years to a...
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A battle approaches Threa - a war of wills, one driven to control it, and the other to destroy it.
While immersed in their history, Lydia learns of the overwhelming threat to the planet and its people. And even though she was brought to Threa by her soulmate Jordan, it has come to be her home. And she will not let it go.
Every day Lydia trains with Lena and Dax, but she doubts she will ever be as strong as they need her to be. She is determined...
3) Who We Were
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It is difficult to understand the theory of a parallel existence, but two young people – Jace and Melodi – experience out-of-place memories that later prove to be strangely accurate in detail. In 1950, a young man named Qingshan moves to Jiangning in China with his parents in search of a better life. He meets a beautiful young lady named Lei-Li, but their love is forbidden due to old family traditions and cultural differences and they pay the...
4) Out of Time
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Abby is relieved. At last, she's pulled her "go-nowhere" life together and, on top of that, she has finally pleased her critical parents. Sure, she enjoys helping her professor turned fiancé dig up medieval relics at the Scottish worksite-but if only Anthony would spend less time digging and more time discovering her. Hell, she'd even settle for one kiss...
Cale is desperate. For the past two years, the warrior Laird of Lairn been searching for...
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It's not gambling in Las Vegas when you know which horse will win the Kentucky Derby or which team will take the World Series. An unforeseen chain of events involving a secret time portal located behind a large resort on the Vegas strip leaves Michael alone and trapped in 1986. Recognizing the incredible possibilities of knowing the future, he buys a red spiral notebook to record his memories of events to come. Michael happily shares his growing wealth...
6) In Time
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It never occurred to Allie Winters that there was something different about Evermore-the small town that she was forced to spend five days in because her car had to be fixed. Yes, it was quaint and yes, it seemed maddeningly out of step with the current times, but it was nevertheless like all those other "remember when" towns she had visited-people in different era clothing, out-of-date music playing on the radio, roads that were only semi-standard...
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Paris, 2064: Music historian Anna Marchand is accidentally transported back in time to the year 1964. When the initial shock has subsided, she heads for London in search of the legendary 'Jim Jam Sessions', a rumored set of unofficial recordings from the era. Meanwhile her friend Alex, whose makeshift time machine has caused her to disappear, searches frantically for a way to find her and bring her back to her own time. Along the way we meet a variety...
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"There is a legend among the gypsy camps of a very powerful potion that would link true lovers' souls together through lifetimes. Only a few true healers have known the secret. But it is said that if it were their destiny to be together, then neither time nor death could separate them." The Past - Nineteenth Century Ireland Roszalia, the dark haired gypsy girl came to live at the O'Connor manor after her mother passed away. She found herself caught...
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Laura, running from a broken relationship, travels through a thunderstorm and wakes up in 1936. No friends, no cell phone, no internet. How will she find her way back to her own time? Fortunately, she meets the man of her dreams and they navigate their way through time travel together.
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Something Wicked begins as Jesse; the heiress of Le Grande travels home for her first visit in many years. She was kept away for her own safety. She will soon be 25 years old and she will inherit all of the family fortune, which is massive. It started with her Grandfather, who traveled from Ireland to the forests of Oregon in the 1930's. He loved the land and began what is today Le Grande. His son Jonathan married the love of his life, Maggie, and...
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"Graduate students David, a white man, and Emily, a student from China fall in love with each other on campus of University of Colorado at Boulder. They are fascinated by sprawling topics likes the universe, the world, and human beings.
When David is caught by a tornado on the Kansas plains he is carried to a time-space tunnel which he traverses along. Stranded in East Africa during the Stone Age, David experiences primitive life and strange romantic...
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Imagine flying in a hot-air balloon, getting caught in an eclipse and descending over 100 years into the Wild West of New Mexico, where you meet a strikingly handsome man who challenges every notion you ever had about love. That's exactly what happens to independent, high-spirited Rachel Kingston, who doesn't know how to get home, but must find a way without falling for his charms.
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The Travel Agency is in the business of time travel, and time travel hasn't worked out the way its creators had hoped it would. Finding themselves unable to change history, except in very small ways, the Agency does what any group of scientists and multi-billionaire investors do when confronted with an initially promising product that isn't living up to the serious purpose for which it was invented: they turn it into a form of entertainment. Time...
14) Araroon
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Five hundred years from now Earth is a barren wasteland, a planet dead from pollution and radiation poisoning. The human race, in order to survive, has turned its technology toward the stars. Man's genetic base, however, has been irrevocably damaged. Untainted DNA is needed, both to fortify the general population, and to allow the continued creation of genetically engineered telepaths -- beings carefully controlled by the Psi Center for use by the...
15) The Colony
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Dimensions could not keep them apart, but to stay together Lydia will need to overcome the A.I. that controls his world. When Lydia is pulled through spacetime into Jordan's plane of existence, she finds herself immersed in a world controlled by the Guardian, an artificial intelligence. The Guardian's sole purpose is to protect the power source that runs the planet; but it does so at the cost of all who live outside of its city. Sheltered in the Colony,...
16) Indigo
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Maya Bennett thought she was an average mom with a "normal" life. That is, until she meets Indigo - a man with an unbelievable story that she can't help but believe. He's a man on a mission to save Maya and her son from an evil she couldn't have imagined in her wildest dreams. In the process she learns that while time may heal old wounds, it can also cut the deepest of them all… From debut novelist Amy L. Boukair comes a thrilling adventure of life...
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Mika Yamada is a single never married office worker who lives in a small rental studio. Most of her classmates are married and have children. She often wonders what her life would have been if she had behaved differently 'then.' On her 40th birthday, she received a time machine from her "future relative." She went back to the last date with her college classmate and gave him another chance for his proposal. Then she found herself living as a suburban...
18) Concord
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What if Beth March had lived? Sarah Hastings, fleeing her latest foster home, gets caught in a thunderstorm. When the skies clear, she finds herself in 1862 Concord, Massachusetts, at the home of the March family from "Little Women." Marmee and the girls embrace Sarah as their own. Sarah meets her new neighbors, the Laurences, and their houseguest, Captain James Harrison, a battle-weary Civil War veteran. James and Sarah find an instant attraction...
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In "The Conversation with Einstein", Jeremiah Laing is a time-travelling historian from the 42nd century, who becomes marooned in the year 1931 after saving a man named Sidney Chalmers from an accident. After an intriguing conversation at one of Einstein's lectures, the trio discover that Chalmers holds an invention capable of compressing interstellar distances into a single step - the Portal.
Their journey through the Portal lands them in a tropical...
20) The Time Anomaly
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For all intents and purposes, mild-mannered introvert and engineer Johnathan Davidson of Toledo, Ohio may be one the most influential persons who ever lived. Mostly by accident and without leaving a clear indication of how on earth he accomplished it, Johnathan invented the only time machine that, thus far in the history of humanity, has been proven to actually work.
When he made his fateful journey forward, he didn't go alone. Johnathan's machine...
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