The SUNDAY TIMES bestseller "Amazing! One of the twistiest time-tales I've ever read."
-Diana Gabaldon "Crichtonesque thrillers don't come much better than this... Readers won't
be able to turn the pages fast enough." - Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) "Are we
talking plot twists? More like spirals. Gripping clever mind-bending stuff." - Daily Mail
From the worldwide bestselling author of Departure and Winter World comes a standalone novel
about a father and daughter trying to unravel an intricate murder mystery spread across time -
with a jaw-dropping twist. Control the past. Save the future. One morning Dr. Sam
Anderson wakes up to find that the woman he loves has been murdered. For Sam the horror is
only beginning. He and his daughter are accused of the crime. The evidence is ironclad. They
will be convicted. And so to ensure his daughter goes free Sam does what he must: he
confesses. But in the future murderers aren't sent to prison. Thanks to a machine Sam helped
invent the world's worst criminals are now sent to the past - approximately 200 million years
into the past to the dawn of the time of the dinosaurs - where they must live out their lives
alone in exile from the human race. Sam accepts his fate. But his daughter doesn't. Adeline
Anderson has already lost her mother to a deadly unfair disease. She can't bear to lose her
father as well. So she sets out on a quest to prove him innocent. And to get him back. People
around her insist that both are impossible tasks. But Adeline doesn't give up. She only works
harder. She soon learns that impossible tasks are her specialty. And that she is made of
tougher stuff than she ever imagined. As she peels back the layers of the mystery that tore
her father from this world Adeline finds more questions than answers. Everyone around her is
hiding a secret. But which ones are connected to the murder that exiled her father? That
mystery stretches across the past present and future - and leads to a revelation that will
change everything.
