A YA Time Travel Romantic Mystery

Sixteen year old Kate has the CHRONOS gene enabling her to use the CHRONOS medallion grandma Katherine gave her to transport through time and space to just about whenever and wherever she chooses. However, Kate’s trips through time have a distinct purpose: stop grandfather Saul from annihilating most of the human race to create a “perfect world”. He attempts to do this through Cyristism, a religion he created that is a mixture of Scientology and Christianity.

Unfortunately for Saul, he is unable to use the CHRONOS keys after he destroyed CHRONOS headquarters in the 23^rdCentury. Only his children and grandchildren with the CHRONOS gene can move through time. With CHRONOS historians stuck in the past, Kate must find these men and women and persuade them to turn over their keys to prevent Saul’s minions from finding them first.

Kate’s job is even more blistering. She needs to prevent the alteration of the timeline, which Saul has tampered with by initiating a new religious movement during the nascent years of our country’s history. This resetting is initiated by the Cyrist cult with tentacles embedded in politics, the media, and every day social interactions.

Kate must prevent her sociopathic grandfather and his band of time travelers from rewriting history by retrieving as many CHRONOS keys as possible before they fall into the Cyrist hands.

Kiernan, who also has the CHRONOS gene, is Kate’s only ally. She met him in Timebound, winner of the 2013 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, when Kiernan was a little boy living in 1893 Chicago during the Chicago Exposition. Now an adult, Kiernan and Kate work together to stop Saul’s ultimate goal of culling about half of mankind and irreparably changing the timeline. However, Kiernan is in love with Kate and Kate loves Trey, a boy she met in high school and who forgot all about her after a Cyrist induced time shift. The author does an amazing job with this love triangle.

Rysa Walker explains succinctly about time travel and keeps the plot flowing with little confusion. She describes the culture of an era beautifully, like she did for 1911 and 1938 Georgia where a mass murder is plotted out and deployed by Saul. Racial prejudice is shown during the arrest and lynching of a CHRONOS historian caught in the Jim Crow South.

Times Edge: The Chronos Files Book 2 will keep readers guessing as Kate moves through time collecting CHRONOS keys from trapped CHRONOS historians stuck in the past as she works fearlessly in protecting the time line and the lives of her family and friends. The action in Time’s Edge is faced-paced with clear descriptions and excellent characterization. Time’s Edge is not a stand-alone book, so plan on reading Timeboundfirst, and if you enjoy books 1 and 2 of the Chronos Files, you’ll want to read Times Divide, which Pop assumes to be equally as exciting as Timebound and Time’s Edge.

About the Author

Rysa Walker is the author of the bestselling CHRONOS Files series. Timebound, the first book in the series, was the Young Adult and Grand Prize winner in the 2013 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards. The CHRONOS Files has sold nearly half a million copies since 2013 and has been translated into fourteen languages.

Rysa currently resides in North Carolina with her husband, two youngest sons, and a hyperactive golden retriever. When not working on the final book in The Delphi Trilogy, she watches shows where travelers boldly go to galaxies far away, or reads about magical creatures and superheroes from alternate timelines. She has neither the time nor the patience for reality TV.

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