When it all goes sideways, going back is not an option. Everything goes wrong when the first research expedition from the future lands in the summer of 2000 in New York City. The master time-travel device is destroyed, the professor in charge is killed, and the rest of the travelers are scattered across that ancient metropolis. They’re stranded in the past, their project in a shambles from the start, and their troubles are only beginning…

—Lost in Time BELIEVING they’ve fixed the master time-travel device, in 2002 Matt and Page take a test trip ten years into the future with their colleague Turner and his new bride along for the ride—but instead of arriving together, the four are separated and scattered in time. Matt and Page both materialize in 1912 San Francisco—only a couple of weeks apart, but unable to reunite. Turner lands in 1962, in the middle of the desert and with little hope of survival, while his wife Verity is the only one to arrive in 2012—alone, and with no idea what’s happened. Anya’s assistant Nye, left on her own in New York City to continue her research without supervision, gets mistaken for a terrorist, while sensible Anya travels back to the summer of 2000 to break all the rules and try to do the impossible—change her own past.

—A Sam and Bailey Mystery IN THE SUMMER OF 1992, tech billionaire Brandt Keener dies drinking a glass of wine while dining with his nearest if not dearest on his small private island off the Washington coast. Despite suspicious circumstances and an abundance of motives, the police find no evidence of homicide, and three weeks later the same people who were present at his death gather again for the reading of his will. Convinced the man was murdered, time-travelers Sam and Bailey inveigle themselves onto the island to investigate, but soon their best suspects start to die. Does Keener’s killer have some reason to want them dead as well? Or could the murdered man’s ghost be seeking revenge? With Bailey’s help, Sam is determined to find the truth—even if it puts both their lives in jeopardy.

Reaching a reunion of the surviving Travelers first requires staying alive. Deciding a little judicious fast-forwarding and backtracking through time is just the way to fulfill her obligations to the FBI and help out her colleagues from the future while continuing to conduct her own research, Nye soon ties her personal timeline into a knot so complicated even she may be unable to unravel it—meanwhile making herself the target of a couple of highly trained hired killers…