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Christmas Present by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsIt's Christmas Eve at St Mary's, And all through the house, Nothing is stirring ... Except for Max, Peterson, and Markham, sneaking out at midnight for an assignment that is very definitely off the books. It's ten years ago tonight that Senior Historians Bashford and Grey went missing in twelfth-century Jerusalem. So how did they end up in AD60 Roman Colchester? Max has a theory...Categorized as:
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The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 49 ratingsAndrew Harlan is an Eternal, a man whose job it is to range through past and present Centuries, monitoring and, where necessary, altering Time's myriad cause-and-effect relationships. But when Harlan meets and falls for a non-Eternal woman, he seeks to use the awesome powers and techniques of the Eternals to twist time for his own purposes, so that he and his love can survive together...Categorized as:
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A Symphony of Echoes by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsA Symphony of Echoes.The sequel to the hit book Just One Damned Thing After Another. Follow the adventures of those tea-sodden historians at St Mary's as once again they dance on the edge of disaster and discover why Book One has over 400 5* reviews...Categorized as:
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Beyond Broadhall by Keith A. Pearson
Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThe concluding installment of the acclaimed time-travel novel. To read the first installment, search for 'The '86 Fix' on Amazon. After his miraculous weekend in 1986, Craig Pelling returned to a future he could never have envisaged. Even by his own hapless standards, his plans have spectacularly backfired... -
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Lady Luck by K.C. Cross, J.A. Huss
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLuck knew two things when he left Harem Station months ago. One. The silver-haired Cygnian Princess Nyleena was still safely frozen away in her cryopod. And two. There was a good chance she was his soul mate. He left anyway. Nyleena is what you might call feisty. Or sassy. Or maybe just… feral. She is wild. Much too wild for Luck’s taste. But now that he’s home there’s no way to deny it...Categorized as:
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Roman Holiday by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsAnother rollicking short story from the Chronicles of St Mary’s. Question: What sort of idiot installs his mistress in his wife’s house? Especially when that mistress is Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator, Queen of Egypt and the most notorious woman of her time? Answer: Julius Caesar – poised to become King of Rome. Or as good as... -
Again My Love by Diana Knightley
Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsProtected. Hidden. Resilient. Three lives entwined. A friend lost in the past, a frightened child in the present, a future that is one gigantic freaking dumpster fire of a calamity. And Kaitlyn and Magnus must keep hope alive when yet again the future demands their attention and possibly their lives. “You’re going to keep me safe, Magnus?” “Aye, every day of m’life, Kaitlyn...Categorized as:
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The Unexpected Gift of Joseph Bridgeman by Nick Jones
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMeet Joseph Bridgeman, a reclusive insomniac with a weakness for ‘The Beatles’ on vinyl and a constant headache. When his annoying accountant suggests hypnotherapy might help him sleep, Joseph accidentally discovers he can time-travel and things get a little complicated... -
Fallen from Heaven by John Palso
Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsGoddard Trevor, a young man from Montreal, Canada, is passionate about the universe and all its mysteries. He is eager to progress in his career and become a renowned scientist. However, one thing is more important than anything: his love, Bethany Casillas. After graduating and receiving an attractive job offer at NASA in Los Angeles, Goddard leaves his hometown... -
Prison Princess by J.A. Huss, K.C. Cross
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTHE BOYS OF HAREM STATION ARE KEEPING LOTS OF SECRETS! Valor joined up with Tray after Beauty’s sacrifice because he knew Luck was destined to be with Princess Nyleena. There was no room in that relationship for a third wheel. But when he teamed up with Tray he had no idea that he’d be the third wheel in that partnership too... -
The Field of Reeds by Jerry Dubs, Kyle Mohler
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSailing home from Ta Netjer, Pharaoh Hatshepsut falls ill from a wound suffered in the Forest of Myrrh. In the barren plains of Sinai, Pharaoh Thutmose’s reverence and bravery inspire the vaunted charioteers who form the maryannu to decide that Thutmose should rule the Two Lands alone... -
System Restored by Adam Eccles
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDerek Cooper is a retro gamer.His small flat is crammed with old consoles, controllers, accessories and shelves brimming full of old games. Quite an amazing collection, but there's always room for one more, isn't there?1981. The world of arcade games is just coming into its own... -
A Time of Shadows by Monique Martin
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt's been a few months since Simon and Elizabeth returned from their adventure in 1888 London. Jack is back with them and all is as it should be, until a knock on the door changes that. A visitor from the future turns their world upside-down. Unable to return her to her time, they go to the Council for help, only to discover there are bigger problems afoot... -
Time Past: A Time Travel Romance Novel by Elyse Douglas
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsYou Never Forget Your First Love.In 2022, 74-year-old Kate Clarke returns to her Ohio college town seeking redemption from a tragic past. She bursts from a secret cave to discover it’s 1968 and she’s twenty years old again... -
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Running Behind Time by Jan Turk Petrie
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThere’s a wrinkle in time on the 15:15 train from Paddington to Cheltenham Spa. It’s the Summer of 1982, and Beth Sawyer is thrilled to have landed the title role in a play. It may only be in a fringe theatre in Shepherd’s Bush, but it’s the start she’s always dreamed of. It’s the Summer of 2020, amid the global pandemic, and Tom Brookes is furloughed... -
Tribe of Daughters by Kate L. Mary
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratings2020 RONE Awards WINNER for Time Travel/Science FictionBronze Medal WINNER in the 2019 Readers' Favorite Book Awards for Science FictionHonorable Mention in the 2018 SPR Book AwardsSemi-Finalist in the 2019 Kindle Book Awards for Sci-Fi/Fantasy FictionIn this village, women are not the weaker sex...Categorized as:
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An Enchanted Spring by Nancy Scanlon
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNancy Scanlon continues the timebending saga she began with The Winter Laird, pulling heroes and villains alike through the portals of time to help save their futures and find their truest loves. A time travel accident has left Aidan MacWilliam, younger brother of a medieval Irish laird, trapped in the future... -
Forgiveness Is a Journey in Time by Lewis Pennington
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Mase Winslow, the heir to a Civil War-era plantation is forced to almost kill his best friend, a slave named Spoon, he unconsciously brings about the demise of his beloved home. As guilt and remorse overtake him, he seeks atonement through death on the battlefield. With the help of an ordinary-looking stone given to him by Spoon’s mother, he is transported through time... -
Entangled With You by Diana Knightley
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsMagnus and Kaitlyn are trying to heal. To live. To love.But they're entangled in futures and pasts that threaten to pull them apart."You get scared?""Aye, sometimes. Mostly for ye. I am scared I winna be able tae keep ye safe."There are vessels that must be secured. A castle with walls that have been breached. A baby about to be born and a future that demands to be reckoned with... -
Nothing but Dust by Diana Knightley
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsMagnus and Kaitlyn need to mount a rescue. A kingdom might be lost. Vessels need to be secured. Friends need to be saved and there is an uncle that needs to be reckoned with. Through it all, Magnus and Kaitlyn need to keep their family together. “He is asking for a fight and we must bring it.” “Yes.” I straighted and tried to look braver than I felt. "At least we have our family around us...Categorized as:
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Migration by Julie E. Czerneda
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsSenior co-administrator of the Norcoast Salmon Research Facility, Dr. Mackenzie Connor was a biologist who studied the spawning habits of salmon. Then, last season, just as she and Dr. Emily Mamani were starting their research, they were interrupted by the arrival of Brymm, the first Dhryn to set foot on Earth... -
Boneyard Dog: War Dog by Andrew Beery
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsDid you ever wake up wondering where you were… and perhaps equally important, how you got there? Yeah, me too. The only the thing is, it usually happens when I’ve been drinking… and I’d been dry for the better part of two years. I’m Commodore Jeremy David Riker… my friends call me JD or just plain “Dog.” I have the dubious honor of running a starship boneyard in the middle of nowhere... -
The Naga Brute's Warrior Mate by Robin O'Connor
Secrets, monsters, and one brutish Naga who just won’t give up. This is sure to be one twisted start to the afterlife.KalaniWhen I disobey a direct order my courtmarshal and execution are swift. My death? Not so much. When I find myself crash-landed on an alien planet with a real Naga, I know my government screwed me over one final time...Categorized as:
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A Tale of Oak and Mistletoe by E.B. Brown
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“I am Winn Neilsson, Chieftain Protector of the blooded MacMhaolian. Husband to Maggie and father to our children. Brother to Benjamin,” Winn replied. “And first born son to Pale Feather of the Paspahegh people, our Great Chief Dagr.” Winn is a seventeenth century Paspahegh warrior, born with the blood of a Norse Time Walker in his veins... -
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Return to Exile by Lynne Gentry
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA twenty-first-century doctor travels back in time to third-century Carthage to rescue her husband, but the arrival of a deadly epidemic forces her to make an impossible choice in this fast-paced second novel in The Carthage Chronicles series. Dr. Lisbeth Hastings salvaged two things from her accidental trip to the third century: her mother's stethoscope and her child...Categorized as:
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A Rip in Time by Monique Martin
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Crosses are back in book 7 of the Out of Time Series. An old enemy returns threatening to destroy not just Simon and Elizabeth but the timeline itself. To keep that from happening, they travel back to 1888 London to find Jack the Ripper…and save his life. If he dies, the timeline changes, everything they know and their lives together, will be lost... -
Threads in Time by Hannah De Giorgis
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTwenty-two-year-old Lyndall Huxley wakes to find herself thousands of years into the future. Something went wrong with the programme for which she volunteered - a programme that employs Einstein’s laws of relativity to send travellers forward in time. The ruins overrun by green woodland in which she wakes are a far cry from the urbanised world she left behind in the 2200's... -
Escape by Carina Wilder
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Come here," she said, extending a hand towards him. "It's time for the Ritual. It's time for you both to be inside me. I want you more than you know." Only one thing is clear: It's time. The shifters need to gain strength for the battle that lies ahead. And Lily has another set of needs that she never understood...until now...Categorized as:
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Alien Viking’s Plunder: An Abduction Romance by Calista Skye
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJosie was abducted by a Viking.An alien Viking from space, raiding her space station in orbit around Earth.Chief Bragr is huge and blond, his beard is braided and he has an intricate tattoo covering his body. What Josie thought was just a helmet are actual horns growing out of his head.His commanding presence makes it impossible for her to look away... -
Warrior of My Own by Diana Knightley
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsMy husband pushed back his chair and dropped to his knees in front of me. His head bowed — he spoke in a stream like a prayer. “I die when I am in the past, how dost ye know when tae declare me dead? You could decide it, call me dead, and I canna blame ye for it. Because I am. But I daena want tae be, I want tae live — with ye.” — Magnus 1702 There are things left undone...Categorized as:
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1632 by Eric Flint
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsFREEDOM AND JUSTICE -- AMERICAN STYLE1632 And in northern Germany things couldn't get much worse. Famine. Disease. Religous war laying waste the cities. Only the aristocrats remained relatively unscathed; for the peasants, death was a mercy... -
A Girl in Time by John Birmingham
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThe past is another country. A dangerous one. On the eve of a huge, breakout success, a poor but brilliant young game developer is pulled out of her world, and time itself, by a cowboy desperately searching for the daughter he lost two hundred years ago. Cady McCall is ready to be rich and famous. She’s sacrificed everything, putting her work ahead of family and friends... -
Of Vice and Virtue by E.B. Brown
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom the author of The Legend of the Bloodstone comes the next installment in the Time Walkers series... Makedewa and Benjamin each had reasons to leave the Norse village more than a year ago. The Powhatan warrior Makedewa hoped that time would heal the damaged heart of the woman he loved and then they would both be ready to embark on a future together...Categorized as:
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Healer of Carthage by Lynne Gentry
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA twenty-first-century doctor. A third-century plague. A love out of time. First-year resident Dr. Lisbeth Hastings is too busy to take her father’s bizarre summons seriously. But when a tragic mistake puts her career in jeopardy, answering her father’s call seems her only hope of redeeming the devastating failure that her life has become...Categorized as:
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Don't Touch the Blue Stuff! by Rob Dircks
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe sequel to Where the Hell is Tesla? is HERE! SOMETHING CALLED THE “BLUE JUICE” IS COMING. FOR ALL OF US. Luckily, me (Chip Collins), Pete, Nikola Tesla, Bobo, and FBI Agent Gina Phillips are here to kick its ass, and send it back to last Tuesday. Maybe. Or maybe we’ll fail, and everyone in the multiverse is doomed. (Seriously, you might want to get that underground bunker ready... -
The Man with All the Answers - Speculative Fiction with a Twist: Science Fiction In Kindle Unlimited by Luke Smitherd
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom the author of Audible #1 bestsellers In The Darkness, That’s Where I’ll Know You, The Physics of the Dead, and The Stone Man (shortlisted for the Audible Audiobook of the Year award 2015)He seems to know everything you want before you do.He’s insightful, kind, and understands you in ways you don’t even understand yourself. He’s everything you ever dreamed of... -
Thief of Hearts by Margaret Foxe
Thief of Hearts Book 3 in the Elders and Welders Chronicles 1888: Egypt ... or thereabouts ... The Sahara Desert, hotbed of pirates, tomb raiders, angry bedouins, opportunists and general ne'er-do-wells, is not exactly the ideal place for a former child-thief to go straight...Categorized as:
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Still Waters by Rebecca Royce
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsA smile can hide secrets… Amber Delacroix Chen survived the hellish Evander bombing of Oceania to escape to The Farm. On the run from a miserable, unloved, and abused existence, she starts over. Safe amongst friends and family, she studies to be a doctor and to help in the war effort. Life at The Farm is often fraught with danger, but she’s faced worse...Categorized as:
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Rising Tides by Rebecca Royce
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsAn embrace can offer comfort… Amber Delacroix Chen reunited with her husbands only to have to send them off to war. Now a doctor, she works tirelessly to patch up the wounded to send them back to the front lines while protecting the people at the heart of the Chen Empire. She delivers babies, tends to the injured, the lost, and even her fellow physicians, everyone—except herself...Categorized as:
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A Time Travel Fantasy Bundle: Footsteps in Time/Prince of Time by Sarah Woodbury
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis Time Travel Fantasy Bundle includes Footsteps in Time and Prince of Time, books one and two in the After Cilmeri Series. It tells the story of David and Anna, two teenagers catapulted back in time to alter history and save the medieval kingdom of Wales. Footsteps in Time: In December of 1282, English soldiers ambushed and murdered Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, the Prince of Wales...Categorized as:
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Reap the Wild Wind by Julie E. Czerneda
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe fascinating debut of the prequel series to The Trade Pact UniverseThis prequel to The Trade Pact Universe series begins in a time before the Clan had learned how to manipulate the M?hir to travel between worlds. Aliens have begun to explore the world of Cersi, upsetting the delicate balance between the Clan and the two other powerful races who coexist by set rules... -
Fifteen Postcards by Kirsten McKenzie
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsHistory shapes those who travel through it Determined to save the antiques store she has inherited from ruin after the unexplained disappearance of her parents, Sarah Lester discovers a jumbled collection of vintage postcards which lead her on a journey through time... -
The Wayfarer: A Time Travel Romance by Jennifer L. Hayes
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEmma Clayton’s love life is decidedly passionless and predictable. Following her move from Los Angeles to a quaint English village with her fiancé Ben, all that changes when a violent electrical storm whisks her one hundred and sixty years into the past. Trapped in Victorian England, Emma is determined to find a way home, back to her fiancé and the life he’s mapped out for them...Categorized as:
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September Sky by John A. Heldt
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen unemployed San Francisco reporter Chuck Townsend and his college-dropout son, Justin, take a cruise to Mexico in 2016, each hopes to rebuild a relationship after years of estrangement. But they find more than common ground aboard the ship. They meet a mysterious lecturer who touts the possibilities of time travel... -
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The Phoenix Decree by Anna Albergucci
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHow far would you go to pursue your heart's desire? When Devon Phoenix, a nineteenth-century Englishman, becomes linked to his soul mate through the discovery of a buried family secret, he must do the impossible. His longing to pursue her demands he cross the centuries to present day. But his world is shaken to its core when he learns he must protect her from men he thought to be only myths... -
The Noble Pirates by Rima Jean
A vacation in the Bahamas goes awry, and a woman from 2009 unexpectedly finds herself in 1718 - amidst pirates. Sabrina is so consumed with her present-day problems that the last thing she expects is to suddenly end up face to face with real pirates...Categorized as:
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Plague Ship by Andre Norton
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsThis eBook edition has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Plague Ship follows the adventures of Dane Thorson, a Cargo-master-apprentice on the Free Trader rocket ship the Solar Queen. Free Traders take on trading contracts on remote and recently discovered planets, which can be dangerous and unpredictable... -
A Modern Lady Lost in Time by Denise Daye
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsIsabella Astley, a true Victorian lady who was born into one of England’s finest houses, wants to control her own destiny. But with a mother who is willing to marry her off to the highest bidder, a life of misery seems to lie ahead of her...Categorized as:
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The Power of Two by Patti O'Shea
The UCE: In the 21st and 22nd Centuries, the United States changed and grew. Now the United Colonies of Earth dominate the globe. But a mysterious voice is broadcasting treason, inciting revolution and referring to the "ideals of 1776"—and to an enigmatic figure named Banzai Maguire. To find Banzai, the UCE assigns Cai Randolph... -
Time Ship #1 by Ian C.P. Irvine
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe most imaginative and gripping time travel story you will ever read! Image the combination of four amazing films - 'The Perfect Storm' meets 'The Philadelphia Experiment' meets ' Contagion' meets 'Pirates of the Caribbean', and you will have the plot for Time Ship...
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