Stealing Time

2025 Silver Falchion Finalist 

2024 Claymore Top Pick

What if you could meet your parents...when they were your age?

Stealing Time is a sharp, funny, and emotionally rich time-travel crime mystery packed with heart, humor, and high stakes.

New York City, 2020

Fifteen-year-old Tori's world is falling apart. Her parents are separating. She and her mother are moving to the suburbs. And she's just discovered a family secret involving a magnificent yellow diamond and her grandfather, whose arrest forty years before shattered her family.

New York City, 1980

An urban jungle still reeling from near-bankruptcy, filled with garbage, graffiti and crime. No internet. No cell phones but plenty of phone booths. And for fifteen-year-old Bobby, no clue what to do about the strange girl in his apartment who knows way too much about his family-because, she explains, she's his daughter. From the future. Together, they'll have to solve a mystery, outwit dangerous criminals, and prevent the jewelry heist of the decade.

But the real discovery? Sometimes the best way to fix your broken present is to understand your family's past.

A coming-of-age story, a second-chance adventure, and a time-traveling twist on a classic caper, Stealing Timeis perfect for anyone who's ever wanted to understand where they came from-and where they're going.