Determined to avoid the horrific prospect of making a speech at his grandfather's birthday celebration, Jack Carpenter takes off across Buzzard's Bay to Penikese Island to lie low until it's all over. While he is lazing there, half asleep, a storm blows up - a storm without rain - that sends Jack back to a time when the Bay was full of sails, when golden eagles and seals could still be seen - and his grandfather was fifteen, just like Jack...Jan Adkins weaves a tapestry rich with the language and feeling of Massachusetts in the not-so-distant past.

Ben doesn't care about cave paintings, broken pottery and old tools. The distant past holds no interest after recent events in his own life. The accidental deaths of his father and brother have stranded Ben with his only living relative on an archaeological dig in the Arizona desert. Angry and despondent, Ben wanders alone into the wasteland. Not until he is bitten by rattlesnakes and close to death does Ben discover that he still wants very much to live. But surviving will be a battle: Ben has been transported into the early days of human history, when the desert was lush forest and grasslands, when woolly mammoths roamed the earth and human life was very short.

The twentieth century is no time for romance. Annie is unhappy about her parents' failing marriage and dissatisfied with her boyfriend, who finds dilapidated cars more fascinating than her. Hungering for romance, Annie dreams of the Victorian past. Wandering through historic Stratton Mansion, Annie gets her wish. But will the 1890s be a dream come true, or the beginning of her worst nightmare? The story continues in Out of Time, Prisoner of Time and For All Time.

Kate is a witch, just like her grandmother. When a new guy appears in school, she is instantly drawn to him, not just by his looks, but by the air of power that is around him. Could he be like her? Unfortunately, Jared doesn't believe in magic - not hers, and certainly not his own. Can Kate convince him that he needs her help to rid his family of a centuries-old curse? Just how far will they have to go to battle this ancient evil?

Mary Barrone is fascinated with the idea of dream spinning, of sending her dreaming self to another time and place through the power of her own will. Curious, Mary begins to experiment with lucid dreaming. But her dreams include places and people she has never seen before, places that truly existed - a hundred years before. Mary's fascination with the past soon turns to obsession. Her everyday life pales against the excitement of her waking dreams as the present fades away...

Rocco Makepeace is having nightmares. In his dreams, he travels to a place where life is primitive, dangerous. When he wakes, the memories linger. So do the smells, the tastes, and the pain of his injuries. But one day, Rocco wakes to find he is still in the dream world, that he has truly gone, not just to another place, but to another time, with no way of returning home...

A thousand years ago Bright Jade, a favourite of the Chinese court, was given a powerful talisman - a white jade tiger. Hundreds of years later, storms unearth her grave and the amulet is taken, setting loose a terrible curse. In search of help, Bright Jade visits the dreams of a twentieth-century girl. Jasmine walks through a back door in a Chinatown shop and into the Chinese immigrant community of 1880's where she must find the talisman and return it to Bright Jade - if she can.

A solo backpacking trip in the desert turns into a desperate struggle for survival when Mark is transported to an alien landscape. Is it another world? Another time? An edge-of-your-seat survival tale with a twist from the author of Hatchet.

The time tube: for its twenty-first century creators it is a way back to the untouched natural beauty of sixteenth century Scotland, which they can exploit for tourism and mineral resources; for the Sterkarms, the lawless border raiders who run wild in this sixteenth century paradise, it is a source of many wonders provided by the "Elves", including aspirins and wristwatches; for Andrea, a somewhat large and slightly lumpy anthropologist, it offers an unparalleled opportunity for research, not to mention romance. But when out and out war erupts between the past and future, Andrea will have to choose sides.

Emily hates the new house. New?! It couldn't get much older. They call it Hound Hill now, but Emily's London neighbourhood has not forgotten its dark and dangerous past. The place seems to be crawling with history, literally. Emily keeps seeing things: a strangely dressed young man, frantically searching for his cat; rats that just should not be there; and crowds of beggars, some desperate, some violent, and some sick, very sick. Is Emily seeing ghosts, or is she herself the one who is adrift in space and time? The terrible years of the Black Death don't seem nearly as far away as they should...

Peter has just been killed in a car accident. He is dead, but not permanently, not yet. A disembodied voice tells him: "You have a chance to go back and fix things. You will remember everything that is going to happen... If you are very careful and clever, you may be able to prevent your death." Peter is in for the battle of his life - the battle for his life.

Thackers is a tricky old house - bits of it seem to move when you aren't looking. Penelope is only a visitor in the rambling farmhouse and it is some while before she realizes that she is slipping in and out of time. Soon Penelope lands squarely in the middle of an Elizabethan plot - to rescue Mary Queen of Scots from the Tower of London!