| Management number | 240828232 | Release Date | 2026/07/16 | List Price | US$3.89 | Model Number | 240828232 | ||
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<p><b>WINNER OF BEST ALTERNATE HISTORY NOVEL AT THE 2023 DRAGON AWARDS</b> </p><p><b>The <i>SUNDAY TIMES</i> bestseller</b> </p><p><b>&quot;Amazing! One of the twistiest time-tales I&#39;ve ever read.&quot;</b> <br><b>-Diana Gabaldon</b> </p><p><b>&quot;Crichtonesque thrillers don&#39;t come much better than this... Readers won&#39;t be able to turn the pages fast enough.&quot;</b> <br><b>-<i>Publishers Weekly</i> (Starred Review)</b> </p><p><b>&quot;Are we talking plot twists? More like spirals. Gripping, clever, mind-bending stuff.&quot;</b> <br><b>-<i>Daily Mail</i></b> </p><p><b>From the worldwide bestselling author of <i>Departure</i> and <i>Winter World</i> comes a standalone novel about a father and daughter trying to unravel an intricate murder mystery spread across time - with a jaw-dropping twist.</b> </p><p><b>Control the past.</b> </p><p><b>Save the future.</b> </p><p>One morning, Dr. Sam Anderson wakes up to find that the woman he loves has been murdered. </p><p>For Sam, the horror is only beginning. </p><p>He and his daughter are accused of the crime. The evidence is ironclad. They will be convicted. </p><p>And so, to ensure his daughter goes free, Sam does what he must: he confesses. </p><p>But in the future, murderers aren&#39;t sent to prison. </p><p>Thanks to a machine Sam helped invent, the world&#39;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. </p><p>Sam accepts his fate. </p><p>But his daughter doesn&#39;t. </p><p>Adeline Anderson has already lost her mother to a deadly, unfair disease. She can&#39;t bear to lose her father as well. </p><p>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. </p><p>But Adeline doesn&#39;t give up. She only works harder. </p><p>She soon learns that impossible tasks are her specialty. And that she is made of tougher stuff than she ever imagined. </p><p>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? </p><p>That mystery stretches across the past, present, and future - and leads to a revelation that will change everything.</p>
| Book format | Paperback |
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| Fiction/nonfiction | Fiction |
| Genre | Literature & Fiction |
| Publication date | September, 2023 |
| Pages | 464 |
| Reading level | General |
| Edition | 1 |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury USA |
| Original languages | English |
| Language | English |
| Assembled product dimensions (l x w x h) | 5.04 x 1.26 x 1.50 Inches |
| Assembled product weight | 0.7 lb |
| Bisac subject heading | Fiction |
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