Emma Merrigan, long-time librarian at a Midwest University cherishes her quiet, comfortable life as a librarian for a large, Midwestern university. The last thing she wants or needs is a Capital-D Destiny, especially one that's rooted in the nightmares she's endured since childhood. But her efforts to deny that destiny take her to the brink of disaster and an unimaginable reunion with the one person who can teach her what she'll need to know to survive.

Lynn Abbey's novels "make fantasy worth reading" (Booklist). Now, in Behind Time, Emma Merrigan-who has only recently discovered her time travel powers-must venture into the wasteland to rescue her imperiled mother.

To free a family from a generational curse, time traveler Emma Merrigan journeys back in time to uncover the truth about a horrific act of violence that will transform the lives of a dynasty and begins to realize the possibility that to save those in the future, she will need to sacrifice those in the past. Original.

Emma Merrigan and her mother, who travel through space and time to prevent devastation from destroying future generations, decide to reconcile on a much-needed Caribbean cruise, but their work gets in the way when a tormented woman sends Emma back to the "wasteland." Original.