Time to Burn
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
If the past catches up with you, time travel can be murder . . .
London, the present day: commercial time travel is a reality.
Tempus Tours – owned by controversial tech entrepreneur Inigo Frank – offers the wealthy a chance to relive history.
Harry Allen, esteemed property mogul, is celebrating his birthday by taking a few guests, including his troubled son Luke, and Luke’s fiancé Sasha, back to the London Blitz in March 1941. They will dine in luxury at the Café de Paris before witnessing the terrifying spectacle of the city’s aerial bombardment.
But things go catastrophically wrong when Luke stumbles and injures himself in the smoky darkness.
Back in the present day, all hell breaks loose as the team realise that Sasha remains missing in 1941. As Sasha’s actions begin to twist history, journalist Victoria Hunt, stationed at Tempus HQ, watches her present reality subtly, then devastatingly shift.
Can Victoria stop the ripple effect before she loses everything – and everyone – she holds dear?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A time tourist goes rogue in this stunning sci-fi thriller from husband-and-wife duo Paul Vlitos and Collette Lyons, writing as Lloyd (The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby). Famous for her unflinching series about the Living Family, a communal "utopian community" founded by her father that ended in tragedy, documentarian Phoebe Hunt agrees to make a film about commercial time-travel innovator Inigo Frank only after he promises her full access and editorial control. Phoebe is filming a trip to the London Blitz with Inigo's company when the excursion goes sideways: fellow attendee Harry Allen and his girlfriend return safely, but Harry's son, Luke, is injured, and Luke's new wife, Sasha, misses the aperture to the present, which can't immediately reopen. Upon seeing Sasha's picture, Phoebe realizes she was a former Living Family kid whom Phoebe bullied mercilessly. When reality starts to shift in the present, Phoebe suspects Sasha is responsible, and questions her endgame. The authors skillfully intercut Phoebe's paranoid present-day experience with scenes following Sasha in 1941 and excerpts from Phoebe's series on the Living Family. Well-wrought characters lend texture and emotional resonance to the intricate and diabolically clever plot. It's a triumph.
