Everyone becomes a traitor if given enough time.
Time Specter is a new YA dystopian novel for fans of Back to the Future and Legend by Marie Lu. In a near-future Washington DC, a loyalist and a rebel must work together to save a stranded time traveler—if they don't turn against each other first.
About The Book
The year is 2083, and if there’s one thing anyone knows about eighteen-year-old Rivera Ardis, it’s that she’s not an Ashreaper. And she’ll never be an Ashreaper. She’s at the top of her class. She has a spotless record. She even plans to enlist in DC’s elite task force to hunt down those little potholes before their political violence turns the country to ash.
There’s just one problem. A single, sloppy mistake might have put River on the task force’s bad side. She’d do anything to clear her name, even if that means spying on Tony Ryder: someone she once considered a friend before the task force arrested his brother for ashreaping. Catch Tony in a crime, and River reclaims her future.
But plans change when sixteen-year-old Cherith Brook appears in the abandoned house next door. She’s scared, covered in blood, and claims to have time traveled from 1995. Gaining Cherith’s trust could reverse River’s sloppy mistake before it even happens. But Tony knows about Cherith too, and time travel is exactly what he needs to rescue his traitorous brother.
Everyone has an agenda, and no one is as they seem—not even the Ashreapers or the task force that hunts them. Time travel offers a way out of the spiral, but only for the person cutthroat enough to seize control.
Rivera Ardis
Rivera "River" Ardis is an eighteen-year-old working as a part-time janitor in her local prison, but she dreams of joining the DC task force to protect her country from the Ashreapers. When a mistake puts her on the task force’s bad side, however, she determines to prove her worth by spying on Tony Ryder, who has suspicious family ties to the Ashreapers. But Tony isn’t who people say, and his beliefs about the task force might cast doubt on everything River's ever believed.
Tony Ryder
After his older brother was arrested for ashreaping, Tony fears the angry mobs and watchful eye of the government. One word of sympathy toward his brother, and he could be next. But despite his lies, Rivera Ardis suspects he’s no friend of the DC's task force. After she finds him trespassing on government property, the two discover a mysterious girl plucked from time itself. For Tony, time travel may be the solution to saving his brother, but the government task force has plans of its own.
Cherith Brook
In 1995, sixteen-year-old Cherith aids her ex-NASA engineer father in building a machine that can predict the future. But she quickly learns the future isn’t just observable; it's interactive, and there are people willing to kill for it. When a home robbery goes wrong, Cherith is separated from her family and stranded in a future she doesn’t recognize. Her only allies are the two teenagers who discovered her, but they may have their own interests in mind. After all, the ability to control time is too tempting for anyone to ignore.
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