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Kiernan Dunne abandoned his family ties to help Kate fight the Cyrists, and he's never regretted that for one moment. But he doesn't understand why Kate can't remember that night in 1893 Chicago, when she turned back to face the killer chasing them through the smoky corridors of the World's Fair Hotel. Kate placed the CHRONOS key around his neck and made his eight-year-old self promise to wear it always, and that's a promise Kiernan has never broken.

Eighteen-year-old Anna Morgan is on the run from the very government project that created her abilities. Now they seek to weaponize the gift she doesn’t want and can’t control: the invasion of her mind and her body by spirits, some of whom have their own unusual powers. Her latest “hitcher” is a former top Delphi executive. Unlike Anna’s previous guests, this one has taken over, and he’s on a personal mission of revenge.

Leah Pfeifer has spent two years in an isolated cabin in Colorado with her almost three-year-old daughter, Anna, trying to protect the girl both from her inherited psychic ability and from the government organization that would be happy to exploit it. Trouble seems to find them anyway, and a panicked phone call from Leah's younger sister, Rowena, prompts Leah to leave in search of treatment for Anna and to rescue Rowena from the cycle of abuse that Leah herself narrowly escaped years ago.

A familiar blip of green light in the corner of his room has Kiernan Dunne hoping the new arrival is Kate, so that he can abandon the rescue he's planning. But the time traveler who just blinked in is a future version of Kiernan, and judging from the number scrawled on his forehead, he's not the only copy.

Acting jobs are scarce now for former TV teen detective Antigone Alden. So when a teaching position opens up at Southern Coastal University, Tig packs up her teenage daughter and heads home to the Outer Banks of North Carolina...now Tig is a local reporter's prime suspect in the murder of the former theater professor. Given his reputation as ladies' man, there are plenty of people with a motive. Tig isn't a detective. She just played one on TV. Will that be enough to help her find the killer?

Haddonwood isn't real. It can't be. Another world, another reality, hovers just beyond Chase Rey's reach. He can see it sometimes. In that world, things are in balance. The dead stay dead and the creature-feature remains safely on the screen. That world isn't a patchwork quilt of every scary book or movie he's seen. In that world, the nightmares generally end when you open your eyes and people don't glitch in and out of existence. Chase is determined to return to that world, although the only way out may be through the noose that seems to lurk around every corner.

Adesso che i Ciriani sono a un passo dal realizzare il loro terrificante e apocalittico progetto, le opzioni a disposizione di Kate sono ormai poche, tanto più che, a ogni salto in avanti o indietro nel tempo, rischia di innescare pericolosi spostamenti nella linea temporale. A peggiorare la situazione, ci sono inoltre i dubbi sulle persone che la circondano e che l'hanno supportata fino a questo momento.

Per fermare il sadico Saul e la sua banda di viaggiatori nel tempo impegnata a riscrivere la Storia, Kate Pierce-Keller deve essere pronta a tutto e recuperare le chiavi chronos prima che finiscano nelle mani sbagliate. I seguaci di Saul, organizzati in una setta ricca e potente, hanno predetto un'apocalisse che, se portata a compimento, cancellerebbe dalla faccia della terra chiunque non condivida la loro fede. Per Kate, ogni viaggio nel tempo è un'occasione per scoprire qualcosa di più sul piano diabolico che Saul ha ordito.

Quando la nonna le racconta di un misterioso medaglione blu, e del dono che lo rende un portale per viaggiare nel tempo, la sedicenne Kate Pierce-Keller pensa che stia delirando a causa dell'età. Eppure, da quel momento, Kate comincia a sentirsi strana e a soffrire di attacchi di panico. Solo in seguito capirà che non sono altro che gli effetti delle increspature nel tempo causate da coloro che stanno manipolando la Storia. I segreti di cui sua nonna la mette al corrente la conducono a incrociare la strada di uomini spregiudicati.