Dayna McConnell – författare

"e;Four players. It's in the rules."e;"e;Is this like, some sort of academic decathlon or something?"e;"e;Something like that."e; Walkman-toting, guitar-playing Finn Mallory blames himself for his parents' deaths and would do anything to turn back time and set things right. So, when he's recruited into a secret club at his new school that specializes in competitive time travel games, Finn sees a world of opportunity open before him. The games, however, are far from benign.Competition is cutthroat.Scenarios are rigged. And the mysterious timekeepers who organize it all have no qualms about using—or disposing of—players to suit their own sinister plans. Now Finn must decide who he can trust while making peace with his past if he's to have any hope of leading his team to victory and surviving his junior year. As the games commence, it's time to press rewind.

There are rules to every game, and then there are those who enforce the rules. Breaking one leads to penalties. Crossing the other leads to disaster. Finn is no stranger to the first, but now that the next round of the Time Trials is underway and he's drawn the ire of one of the Timekeepers, he's about to find out just how vindictive one of them can be. Loyalties will be tested.Bonds will be broken.And by the end of the season, the Timekeeper will have blood, one way or another.

The past was never meant to be home.After a desperate escape from the Historians' Society, Finn and his teammates find themselves stranded in Gold Rush California with no way home and no idea if they'll ever return to the lives they left behind.But they're not alone.Deep in the Sierra foothills, they discover a group of former Time Trials competitors, exiled decades earlier. Their warning is clear: survival is possible. Returning home may not be.As Finn, Everly, Edison, and Valerie struggle to adapt to a brutal frontier where fortunes are made and lives are lost overnight, old wounds deepen, loyalties fracture, and dangerous secrets come to light. The farther they travel from the world they know, the harder it becomes to remember what they're fighting for – and who they're fighting against.Because in a land of gold, guns, and grit, the greatest danger may not be the past itself...…but who you become within it.