Rysa Walker

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 Kate’s genetic ability to time-travel makes her the only one who can stop him. Risking everything, she travels to the Chicago World’s Fair to try to prevent the killing and the chain of events that follows. Changing the timeline comes with a personal cost, however—if Kate succeeds, the boy she loves will have no memory of her existence. And regardless of her motives, does she have the right to manipulate the fate of the entire world?

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, Kate's missions become more complex, blurring the line between good and evil. Which of the people Saul plans to sacrifice in the past can she and Kiernan save without risking their ultimate goal--or their own lives?

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 finding her. He returns to the Cyrist fold to look for clues, but his search will lead him back to the question that has haunted him for years--what really happened after he left Kate at the World's Fair Hotel? This digital novella gives Timebound readers a glimpse at Kate in another timeline and helps set the stage for Time's Edge, the second book in The CHRONOS Files Series, coming from Skyscape in October.

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? Her mother, Katherine Shaw. And everyone wants to know how Pru got her hands on a CHRONOS key. Pru is convinced that the key is the answer to all her problems. She'll use it to stop her mother, fix her relationship with Deb, and even restore CHRONOS, so that her new friend Tate can return to the job he loves. She can't do it alone, however. Fortunately, she finds Saul Rand, and he's more than willing to help. This digital novella follows Prudence's story from her fateful first journey with the CHRONOS key to the point where her story intersects with Kiernan Dunne in the first novella, Time's Echo. It also helps sets the stage for Time's Divide, the third and final book in The CHRONOS Files, coming from Skyscape in October.

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.

What if your mind became your worst enemy? Struggling with evolving psychic abilities, seventeen-year-old Anna Morgan and her equally exceptional friends are on the run from the ruthless Graham Cregg, leader of a covert operation known as the Delphi Project. Cregg has already killed repeatedly to test Anna’s ability. Now, he and his father, a presidential contender, will stop at nothing to recapture the Delphi adepts, whom they see as weapons to be controlled—or destroyed. Navigating an increasingly hostile landscape, Anna and her friends form a resistance to rescue those still in the Creggs’ fatal grip. As more gifted kids vanish and public awareness of the Delphi Project grows, so does the opinion that getting rid of the adepts may be a necessary evil. Yet even as they face off against cold-blooded killers, government operatives, and a public intensely afraid of their psychic powers, the greatest threat to Anna and the resistance may come from within themselves—and their own mysterious abilities could spell their ultimate downfall.

A psychotic killer hijacked her mind and her body...She’s taking them back!Eighteen-year-old Anna Morgan is on the run from the very government project that created her abilities. Now they seek to weaponize the gift she doesn’t want and can’t control: the invasion of her mind and her body by spirits, some of whom have their own unusual powers. Her latest “hitcher” is a former top Delphi executive. Unlike Anna’s previous guests, this one has taken over, and he’s on a personal mission of revenge.The target is Senator Ronald Cregg, a corrupt, power-hungry presidential candidate. One of Delphi’s creators, he’s now manipulating the public into believing “psychic terrorists” are a scourge to be eliminated. There’s only one way to stop him, but Anna draws the line at murder.Pulled into a dark conspiracy, Anna struggles to reclaim her body, mind, and soul as she and the other Delphi psychics join together to fight for their right to exist.

Na vida, tudo tem uma ordem certa para acontecer: os sapatos devem ser colocados depois das meias, a geleia deve ser passada no pão depois da manteiga — netos nascem depois dos avós. Kate Pierce-Keller nunca havia dado atenção a este último item, até sua avó surgir com revelações e um objeto que podem colocar sua existência em risco. Os eventos da premiada Trilogia Chronos se iniciam quando Kate descobre que sua avó é uma historiadora viajante do tempo — nascida alguns séculos à frente, mas presa ao presente por conta de um acidente — e possui um artefato, um medalhão azul reluzente, que permite realizar saltos temporais para qualquer época e local. Tudo parece um absurdo no início, mas uma leve interferência na linha temporal faz com que os pais de Kate sumam do mapa e ela seja a próxima da lista. Arriscando sua vida, ela aceita a missão de tentar voltar no tempo para evitar um homicídio que é a chave de tudo e colocar as coisas no seu devido lugar. Mas se ela for bem sucedida, a interferência também terá um custo pessoal. Neste primeiro volume, o leitor é transportado para a Exposição Universal de 1893, em Chicago, quando a Roda Gigante foi apresentada pela primeira vez e o serial killer H. H. Holmes dirigia um hotel construído especialmente para receber os visitantes da feira (e sumir com seus corpos). Em meio a tantos fatos históricos e curiosos, Kate precisa agir pontualmente para não estragar nada, e ainda impedir a ascensão de um culto religioso bastante poderoso que ameaça afetar o universo como o conhecemos. A viagem no tempo sempre fascinou o ser humano e foi tema de obras que marcaram época como o clássico A Máquina do Tempo, de H. G. Wells, O Fim da Eternidade, de Isaac Asimov, o filme mais querido da década de oitenta, De Volta para o Futuro, o cult que impressionou uma geração, Donnie Darko, e a aclamada série Outlander, de Diana Gabaldon. Todo mundo já quis mudar alguma coisa do seu passado, mas é difícil calcular o impacto disso no presente. Além do mais, quem decide que essa mudança pode ser feita? Esses e outros dilemas são construídos e trabalhados de maneira afiada por Rysa Walker em seu romance de estreia, que chega ao Brasil pela DarkSide® Books em uma edição especial que vai durar séculos — e deixaria até mesmo Doctor Who curioso. Chronos: Viajantes do Tempo, o primeiro volume da Trilogia Chronos, foi ganhador do prêmio Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award em 2013 e, com isso, recebeu o sinal verde para ser impresso pela Skyscape Publishing, um selo editorial da Amazon. Com o reconhecimento da obra, Rysa Walker passou a se dedicar integralmente ao seu ofício de escritora e deu continuidade às viagens de Kate pelas décadas. Agora, a autora também integra a coleção DarkLove, a linha editorial da DarkSide® Books que revela as vozes femininas mais surpreendentes do nosso — e de qualquer outro — tempo.