Новинки Райсы Уолкер

Все меняется. Кейт вступает в сотрудничество с отрядом сопротивления, чтобы предотвратить мировую катастрофу, планируемую Соулом. Им на руку ее способности в обращении с ключом ХРОНОСа. Но опасность возрастает: с каждым новым перемещением в прошлое или будущее Кейт запускает новый временной сдвиг, который полностью меняет окружающую реальность. Хуже всего, что Кейт начинает сомневаться в том, стоит ли ей вообще доверять своим союзникам и Кирнану. Девушка полна решимости и готова рискнуть всем, даже собственной жизнью, ради спасения мира. Вот только будет ли этого достаточно, если на кону судьба всех, кто ей дорог?

Замысловатые путешествия во времени продолжаются. Новые сдвиги реальности сводят Кейт с ума. Девушка узнает о том, что ее дедушка причастен к глобальным изменениям в истории и собирается завоевать мировое господство. Теперь Кейт должна разыскать всех путешественников, застрявших в разных временных отрезках, чтобы забрать у них ключи и тем самым сохранить им жизнь. В этом ей поможет парень, который тоже обладает геном ХРОНОСа. Но ей следует быть осторожной: если план будет раскрыт, то под угрозой окажутся судьбы миллионов людей. Получится ли у Кейт победить в мире, в котором тонка грань между добром и злом? И не станет ли тот, кто ей дорог одним лишь воспоминанием?

Как из современного Вашингтона отправиться в далекий Чикаго 1893 года? Для Кейт невозможное стало реальным. Оказывается, странный медальон ее бабушки не что иное, как ключ к штаб-квартире ХРОНОСа – организации историков из будущего, путешествующих во времени. Вскоре Кейт обнаруживает, что реальность изменилась и ее родителей больше не существует, а она осталась жива только благодаря защите ключа. Кто-то убил бабушку Кейт, когда она находилась в девятнадцатом веке. Девушка должна отправиться в далекое прошлое и выяснить, как предотвратить ужасные последствия. Но если все получится, парень, который ей нравится, никогда больше не вспомнит ее.…

It’s never wise to talk to strangers…and that goes double when they’re dead. Unfortunately, seventeen-year-old Anna Morgan has no choice. Resting on a park bench, touching the turnstile at the Metro station—she never knows where she’ll encounter a ghost. These mental hitchhikers are the reason Anna has been tossed from one foster home and psychiatric institution to the next for most of her life.

When a chance touch leads her to pick up the insistent spirit of a girl who was brutally murdered, Anna is pulled headlong into a deadly conspiracy that extends to the highest levels of government. Facing the forces behind her new hitcher’s death will challenge the barriers, both good and bad, that Anna has erected over the years and shed light on her power’s origins. And when the covert organization seeking to recruit her crosses the line by kidnapping her friend, it will discover just how far Anna is willing to go to bring it down.

Simon Rand is well-accustomed to altering history. In fact, the CHRONOS key around his neck has allowed him to alter the timeline to include an entirely new religion--one that his grandfather, Saul Rand, claims will result in a better future than generation after generation of haphazard mistakes and blunders. But it takes an accidental jump into an infamous 1890s murder scene to show Simon the lengths to which Saul is willing to go in his quest to "fix" history.

This short story, which appeared originally in Dark Beyond the Stars: A Space Opera Anthology, answers the question that Katherine never would: What really happened in 2092? The Elisi Alliance is facing defeat in its struggle against the Lor, when Mila, an Elisi requisitions scout, uncovers evidence of a time-altering technology that could reverse the course of the war. The device is on XE7, a small planet Mila fears will be destroyed if pulled into the conflict. Can she retrieve the technology without sacrificing XE7?

Saul Rand is one of a select group of genetically-engineered CHRONOS historians who study the past firsthand. Convinced that he can create a better future than random chance and human blunder, Saul's main challenge is circumventing the system's safeguards--and he thinks he's found the perfect opening move. This short story was originally published in The Time Travel Chronicles.

A CHRONOS Files Novella Simon Rand's life isn't exactly linear, but he's okay with that. He was older than his mother when they first met, and he's traveled pretty much everywhere and everywhen the CHRONOS key can take him. Much of his childhood was spent in the 1890s on the Cyrist Farm with his friend, Kiernan Dunne, but summer vacations meant hanging out with his grandfather in the 2020s, training to be Saul Rand's right-hand man and fixing bits of history to help build Cyrist International. But that's just Simon's day job. His true passion is time tourism--jumping right smack into the middle of historical events to see what really…

The Cyrists are swiftly moving into position to begin the Culling, and Kate’s options are dwindling. With each jump to the past or the future, Kate may trigger a new timeline shift. Worse, the loyalties of those around her—including the allegiances of Kiernan and the Fifth Column, the shadowy group working with Kate—are increasingly unclear. Kate will risk everything, including her life, to prevent the future her grandfather and the Cyrists have planned. But, when time runs out, it may take an even bigger sacrifice to protect the people she loves.

The only things on Prudence Pierce's mind are seducing her violin instructor and, with the help of her sister Deborah, avoiding the wrath of their mother for stepping out of the house dressed like Madonna. Her mother might also be a teensy bit angry about the medallion Pru swiped from the attic--a medallion that glows lime green and has an oddly hypnotic, holographic effect when Pru holds it in her hand. A simple blink is all it takes to yank Pru from the car with her dad into a world of hurt. She awakens in 2305 to find herself pinned under what's left of CHRONOS headquarters, thanks to a recent terrorist attack. Their prime suspect?…

A Kindle exclusive novella, set in the world of Rysa Walker's Timebound. Kiernan Dunne abandoned his family ties to help Kate fight the Cyrists, and he's never regretted that for one moment. But he doesn't understand why Kate can't remember that night in 1893 Chicago, when she turned back to face the killer chasing them through the smoky corridors of the World's Fair Hotel. Kate placed the CHRONOS key around his neck and made his eight year old self promise to wear it always, and that's a promise Kiernan has never broken. When Kate suddenly vanishes after a Cyrist-engineered time shift, that hidden medallion is Kiernan's only hope for…

The Cyrists are swiftly moving into position to begin the Culling, and Kate’s options are dwindling. With each jump to the past or the future, Kate may trigger a new timeline shift. Worse, the loyalties of those around her—including the allegiances of Kiernan and the Fifth Column, the shadowy group working with Kate—are increasingly unclear.
Kate will risk everything, including her life, to prevent the future her grandfather and the Cyrists have planned. But, when time runs out, it may take an even bigger sacrifice to protect the people she loves.

To stop her sadistic grandfather, Saul, and his band of time travelers from rewriting history, Kate must race to retrieve the CHRONOS keys before they fall into the Cyrists' hands. If she jumps back in time and pulls the wrong key--one that might tip off the Cyrists to her strategy--her whole plan could come crashing down, jeopardizing the future of millions of innocent people. Kate's only ally is Kiernan, who also carries the time-traveling gene. But their growing bond threatens everything Kate is trying to rebuild with Trey, her boyfriend who can't remember the relationship she can't forget. As evidence of Saul's twisted mind builds,…

2013 Winner — Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award — Grand Prize and Young Adult Fiction Winner When Kate Pierce-Keller’s grandmother gives her a strange blue medallion and speaks of time travel, sixteen-year-old Kate assumes the old woman is delusional. But it all becomes horrifyingly real when a murder in the past destroys the foundation of Kate’s present-day life. Suddenly, that medallion is the only thing protecting Kate from blinking out of existence. Kate learns that the 1893 killing is part of something much more sinister, and her genetic ability to time travel makes Kate the only one who can fix the future. Risking everything, she…