Description
The end justifies the means
The many over the few
Time travel has rules as seventeen-year-old Charlie Lamp is about to learn.
But what happens when you break one?
When Charlie’s grandmother is murdered, she is plunged into the world of the Temporal Sinistrum. A secretive organisation of time travellers tasked with maintaining the historical timeline. Her grandmother was once one of their star agents, and Charlie must step into her footsteps and solve the mystery of her death, in an adventure that takes her from Australia in 1966 to thepost-apocalyptic wasteland of Los Angeles in 2120.
Charlie is a teenage girl, coming-of-age, across multiple timelines as she investigates her grandmother’s past as part of the Sinistrum, while still dealing with her complicated feelings for the boyfriend she left behind in 2016.
This is a novel for fans of Dr Who, Marvel and Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. It’s for those who love big mind-bending adventures where the historical past of the Blitz and the Chernobyl disaster mixes with the dystopian future of Los Angeles and a cult sheltering in missile silo.
Review
After her Grandmother Penny’s death, seventeen-year-old Charlie is left her beautiful watch, the Tempus Imperium. But with the watch comes great responsibility...
The watch is a remnant from Penny’s past, from when she was a star agent for the Temporal Sinistrum, an agency whose purpose is to maintain the world's historical timeline, keeping balance and avoiding catastrophes that could end the world.
Should Charlie risk everything to become a part of this strange organisation?
Full of time travelling adventure taking you back to pivotal times in world history, it features the Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster as well as a futuristic and dystopian Los Angeles where the world is almost uninhabitable and on the verge of human extinction.
With themes of time travel, disaster, maintaining the earth's balance, connection to family and fighting for a better future, The Tempus Imperium is an easy to read novel that is firmly targeted at younger secondary students.
