Responsibility under uncertainty
Jackson cannot control or understand his time travel and panics when Holly is placed in fatal danger. He attempts to navigate the past and protect her.
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Julie Cross - Author
Expect a fast-moving science-fiction mystery combining time travel, gunfights, fistfights, romance, family secrecy and conspiracy.
The Time Traveller's Wife meets The Matrix - an action-packed, roller-coaster of a ride, filled with drama, intrigue and romance in equal proportions. Tempest is a mind-blowing debut novel that will keep you guessing at every turn. Jackson Meyer is hiding a secret. He can time-travel. But he doesn't know how he does it, how to control it or what it means. When Jackson, and his girlfriend Holly, find themselves in fatal danger, Jackson panics and catapaults himself two years into his past, further than he's ever managed before, and this time he can't find a way back to the future. All the rules of time-travel he's experienced so far have been broken and Jackson has no choice but to pretend to be his younger self whilst he figures out a solution. Jackson is tearing himself apart with guilt and frustration, wondering if Holly survived. He's also become the target of a enemy force he cannot even begin to comprehend and it seems even his dad is lying to him. Jackson is racing against time to save the girl he loves, discover the truth about his family and, most importantly, understand why he can time travel and who wants him dead.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceExpect a fast-moving science-fiction mystery combining time travel, gunfights, fistfights, romance, family secrecy and conspiracy.
Jackson cannot control or understand his time travel and panics when Holly is placed in fatal danger. He attempts to navigate the past and protect her.
Jackson suspects that his father is lying and investigates his family’s truth while an enemy force targets him.
Jackson’s uncertainty about her survival drives his guilt and urgency.
Before reading, mention the shooting, action violence, sexual relationship, profanity and family deception. Pause to discuss Jackson’s choices, uncertainty and trust, while checking how the novel develops consequences.
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