Time Travel Thriller

Istanbul, 1683: Mehmed IV, sultan of the Ottoman Empire, is preparing to lay siege to Vienna, capital of the Holy Roman Empire, when a mysterious visitor arrives in his bedroom - naked, covered in strange tattoos - to deliver a dangerous, world-changing message. Paris, 2017: Ottoman flags have been flying over the great city for 300 years, ever since its fall - along with all of Europe - to the empire’s all-conquering army. Notre Dame has been renamed the Fatih Mosque. Public spaces are segregated by gender.

A group of strangers awake in a massive, mysterious place, with no recollection of how they got there, or who they are. To make matters worse, an unstoppable flesh-craving monster hunts them from the shadows of every corridor. As they explore the confines of their 'cage', memories of their past start to resurface, giving them insight as to their collective purpose for being there, and their own interpersonal relationships. Together, they attempt to unravel the mysteries of their surroundings and avoid the creature, before paranoia and hysteria divide them, and tear them apart. Over 400 ...

In the climactic third audiobook in the Yestertime series, Ray, Natalie, and the other time travelers are desperate to return to the 21st century. But how? Just when a slim opportunity to find their way home presents itself, they get some chilling news. And now, Ray and his friends may be stranded for good.

Riley, a teen orphan boy living in Victorian London, has had the misfortune of being apprenticed to Albert Garrick, an illusionist who has fallen on difficult times and now uses his unique conjuring skills to gain access to victims' dwellings. On one such escapade, Garrick brings his reluctant apprentice along and urges him to commit his first killing. Riley is saved from having to commit the grisly act when the intended victim turns out to be a scientist from the future, part of the FBI's Witness Anonymous Relocation Program (WARP).

Kit Livingstone met his great grandfather Cosimo in a rainy alley in London where he discovered the reality of alternate realities.Now he’s on the run—and on a quest, trying to understand the impossible mission he inherited from Cosimo: to restore a map that charts the hidden dimensions of the multiverse while staying one step ahead of the savage Burley Men. The key is the Skin Map—but where it leads and what it means, Kit has no idea. The pieces have been scattered throughout this universe and beyond.

Private detective Greyson Travers doesn’t talk about his past, but when a specter from his youth is released from prison, he’s forced to unlock buried memories. His old nemesis is stirring tension in the criminal underworld, and it’s not long before the trouble boils over into Greyson’s private life.

We, humans, have always assumed that only aliens could pose an extraterrestrial threat to our existence on Earth. We were wrong. Totally wrong.

A Murder in Time: A Non-Stop Thriller The only way Marcus Johnson can get serious cash is to steal it. He's convinced it's the perfect plan. Once the job is done and the money is stashed in his car, he will call the police to divert suspicion from him. But he can’t stop what happens next because he stole from the wrong people, and they come after him. He goes insane with despair when his new girlfriend pays the ultimate price, and he begs God for a chance to right his wrong, but He isn’t listening. When Marcus runs from his girlfriend's murderers, he slips through time and lands in the ...

In the future, working under time acceleration is the only way to get ahead. On Monday, Beth Jackson starts work at Relative Industries: a top-secret high-tech science institute with zones of relative time. By Friday, just five days later, she will have worked five years inside Zone 12. For Beth, working inside Zone 12 is an opportunity of a lifetime. But not everyone is as motivated as her to work under time acceleration. Soon after arriving, she meets Howard Henderson: a medical research scientist desperately trying to find a cure for his sick son. However something feels off about his ...

Charles Stross builds a new series with Empire Games. Expanding on the world he created in the Family Trade series, a new generation of paratime travelers walk between parallel universes. The year is 2020. It's 17 years since the Revolution overthrew the last king of the New British Empire, and the newly reconstituted North American Commonwealth is developing rapidly, on course to defeat the French and bring democracy to a troubled world.

“Welcome to the world’s greatest mystery. It has everything-clues and ciphers, red herrings, and consciously enigmatic jokes. There are villains, victims, and heroes littering the plotlines, along with ancient books, inscrutable monuments, and strange unearthly figures that flit along through the ages as if they had a purchase agreement on eternity.” The Pharaohs of Egypt, Plato, Aristotle, Sir Isaac Newton, Francis Bacon, and the late Stephen Hawking, have all sought to learn the secret of the ancient ones. A secret so powerful it can change the world. Sprinkled throughout the ...

Beneath Antarctica lies Aevum, a hidden city powered by chronon technology – the manipulation of time. For centuries, the Aevans lived in isolation, separated from their Atlantean kin by an ancient schism. But the chronon stream is failing, reality fractures, and the surface world's recklessness threatens catastrophe. Lyra Alastor, a brilliant, cynical architect tasked with stabilizing the timestream, is caught between a rigid Council clinging to dogma, whispers of a dangerous conspiracy led by the enigmatic Kael, and the echoes of forgotten conflicts. As Aevum falters and buried ...

If anyone tells you hunting ghosts is less dangerous than chasing down real-life criminals, they’re wrong. Very, very wrong.Case two takes us to a New Jersey Shore Inn. A beautiful, yet dead opera singer seems to be begging for help, but her pleas do nothing but terrorize the locals. While trying to decipher the clues to her 1919 disappearance, uncovering hair-raising horrors, it becomes clear that Jason and I no longer see eye-to-eye.Jason wants me to stop meddling with the supernatural. He wants me to stop risking my life by interacting with demons and spirits. What he doesn’t ...

The gripping adventure of an alien society's disintegration. The first technological race in the early universe created an egalitarian society out of the ruins of planet-wide destruction. It lasted for three hundred years, quietly managed and manipulated by an AI. When a new leader seizes power, self-preservation becomes a struggle. An AI determined to maintain the status quo and a dangerous new leadership clash violently. A scientist, Daxx, and his biologist partner, Janna, are thrown into the fray when they discover a mutation that makes free, unlimited power a possibility. Both sides of ...

The adventure of Glenfair continues in the story of the android Pi. During the final battle of Glenfair the wires that fed power to her positronic memory were severed. Through a combination of human impulse and fate Pi is reactivated but does not remember anyone or who she is. Through reading the journals of Master Fields and Master Rollins she finds a new purpose in becoming the new protector of Glenfair. She will drift in and out of peoples lives through the centuries until she embarks on a perilous journey to solve a mystery that will unite the Sabatlol kingdom with Glenfair and usher in...

Scotland, 1906. A mysterious object discovered inside an ancient castle calls Maximilian Haywood, the new Duke of Olympia, and his fellow researcher Emmeline Truelove north to the remote Orkney Islands. No stranger to the study of anachronisms in archeological digs, Haywood is nevertheless puzzled by the artifact: a suit of clothing that, according to family legend, once belonged to a selkie who rose from the sea and married the castle's first laird. But Haywood and Truelove soon realize they're not the only ones interested in the selkie's strange hide.

So you want to play with magic? There’s trouble in the French Quarter when a professional basketball player hires Wyatt and voodoo mambo Mama Mulate to help him exorcise a supernatural demon. Wyatt is thrilled to have a paying client, Mama, over the moon in lust for the handsome athlete. Things look rosy for the pair of paranormal investigators until the assignment dictates Wyatt travel back in time to antebellum New Orleans. Thrust headfirst into the middle of a dangerous situation, Wyatt must deal with a red-haired Irish witch named Aisling and avoid becoming a haunted torture room ...

Embark on an electrifying journey through the realms of the living and the dead in "Sometimes Things Break," a heart-pounding psychological, gothic, time travel thriller that will shatter your perceptions of life, death, and everything in between. Meet Buck, a man caught between two worlds - the living and the mysterious afterlife. Convinced he's dead after a fateful bungee jump, he finds himself surrounded by enigmatic figures who insist he's departed the realm of the living. And then there's Cheryl, a spirit who has witnessed the darkest side of mortality. Her life was snuffed out in a ...

Dark State ups the ante on the already volatile situations laid out in the sleek techno-thriller Empire Games, the start to Stross' new story-line and a perfect entry point for new listeners, in The Merchant Princes series . In the near-future, the collision of two nuclear superpowers across timelines, one in the midst of a technological revolution and the other a hyper-police state, is imminent. In Commissioner Miriam Burgeson's timeline, her top level agents run a high risk extraction of a major political player.

What would you do if you suddenly found yourself 25 years in the past? For the nine billion people living in the year 2042 it's no longer a question...it's a reality. When a seemingly simple experiment goes disastrously wrong, James Baston finds himself stranded in the past alongside the rest of mankind. Here the old are young once more, the dead live again, and civilization is in chaos.