Books

The complete collection of CHRONOS Files and CHRONOS Origins novellas and short stories. Includes the new short story, “Ashes and Rose,” as well as never-before-published CHRONOS mission files.

Three Novellas:
Time’s Echo
Time’s Mirror
Simon Says: Tips for the Intrepid Time Traveler

Short Stories:
“The Gambit”
“2092”
“Splinter”
“Whack Job”
“Kate Down...

Bestselling author Rysa Walker (Timebound) takes readers on a time-hopping adventure in this stand-alone series set in her CHRONOS Files world. Written by fan favorite Heather Nuhfer (My Little Pony) and featuring pulse-pounding art from Agustin Padilla (Smallville).

Nineteen-year-old Clio Dunne has lived a life of secrecy. Her world-saving,...

Zombie cheerleaders. Murderous scarecrows. A haunted house high on the hill.

Enter Haddonwood is an action-packed homage to popular horror, with clever nods to everything from King and Koontz to slasher films like A Nightmare on Elm Street and Halloween.

Another world, another reality, hovers just beyond Chase Rey’s reach. He can see it...

A demonic crow. Psycho slashers. And a very big, bad wolf.

Enter Haddonwood is an homage to popular horror, with clever nods to everything from King and Koontz to slasher films like A Nightmare on Elm Street and Halloween. Includes twenty-four illustrations created with Midjourney AI.

Since the beginning of time as we know it, the Councils of...

The monsters in his head could kill us all.

Where Wolves Fear to Prey is the mind-bending conclusion of Rysa Walker and Caleb Amsel’s Enter Haddonwood trilogy.

For all of human history, the dueling Councils of 72 have maintained balance between Good and Evil. Seventy-two angels and seventy-two demons working in the shadows to ensure a careful...

Previously published as Jessa Archer

Tig isn’t a detective. She just played one on TV. Will that be enough to help her find the killer?

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...

Previously published as Jessa Archer

A QUESO MISTAKEN IDENTITY?

Tig Alden’s neighbor is a royal pain. Rebecca Whitley has managed to annoy pretty much everyone she’s met since she followed her youngest son to Southern Coastal University two years ago. Whitley’s little dog, Leo, doesn’t respect boundaries. She delights in leaving scathing reviews...

Previously published as Jessa Archer

BRIGHT LIGHTS, DEAD BODY
Three days before Tig Alden’s planned vacation to New York, a Broadway producer is killed at a wedding on the Outer Banks. Everyone thinks he was the accidental victim of a botched political assassination. But the politician assumed to have been the target thinks there’s more to the...

SKELETONS IN EVERY CORNER
Everything is set for a fun-filled Halloween on the Outer Banks. Tig Alden’s father, James, is in town for a benefit performance and her daughter, Paige, is busy with the high school’s annual Haunted Swamp. Things take a dark turn, however, when an actual corpse pops up among the vampires and zombies...and James finds...

In this prequel novella to the Coastal Playhouse Murder Mysteries, Antigone Alden and her daughter Paige return to the Outer Banks in the wake of Caroline’s untimely death. While paying their final respects, they realize Caroline’s black opal has disappeared. But as Tig searches for the missing heirloom, she discovers that her mother’s house isn...

BURIED LEDES AND BURIED SECRETS
When Ruth Townsend’s job and marriage both end abruptly, she heads home to the mountains for a fresh start. She’s intent on reviving the local newspaper but with only two dozen subscribers it’s a struggle. What she needs is a good mystery...but nothing ever happens in sleepy little Thistlewood.

Then Edith Morton is...

A TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE ART?

When the rusted-out remains of a vehicle with a unique vanity plate are hauled out of the Freedom River, journalist Ruth Townsend and her best friend, Wren Lawson, think they’ve finally learned the truth about the disappearance of their high school friend, Tanya Blackburn. The rest of Thistlewood may have believed...

Previously published as Jessa Archer.
NOW YOU SEE HER...NOW YOU DON’T

When Ruth Townsend discovers Tessa Martin’s body in an abandoned factory, sprawled across a Ouija board, she does the responsible thing and calls 911. But by the time Sheriff Blevins arrives, the girl’s body has vanished.

Blevins is convinced that Tessa is playing an elaborate...

LIGHTS, CAMERA,...MURDER?

Thistlewood is all decked out as a picture-perfect Christmas village and the ideal backdrop for a holiday movie. The entire town is abuzz with excitement until one of the actors, Oscar-winner Audrey Shaw, turns up dead in her trailer on the set.

Ms. Shaw’s star faded decades ago, and her failure to show up for filming...

MURDER IN MUSIC CITY

A girls’ weekend in Nashville takes an unexpected turn when Ruth’s ex-husband vanishes, leaving behind a suicide note and the body of his business partner. It’s clear that Joe was involved in something highly illegal, but Ruth has a hard time believing he was capable of murder and Cassie refuses to accept that he’s dead.

...

Previously published as Jessa Archer

Black bear, black bear, what did you see?

When a crack of gunshot disturbs her morning birdwatching, journalist Ruth Townsend is certain it’s the neighbor she’s already warned twice about hunting on her property. She takes off through the woods to confront him, but stumbles upon more than she bargained for--a...

This short story, which appeared originally in Dark Beyond the Stars: A Space Opera Anthology, answers the question that Katherine never would: What really happened in 2092?

Aflând că nu mai are mult de trăit, bunica lui Kate îi încredințează nepoatei ei de șaisprezece ani un medalion albastru straniu, care are puterea de a-i permite să călătorească în timp. La început sceptică, adolescenta descoperă în cele din urmă că bunica spune adevărul și că acest dar vine de undeva din străfundurile ființei ei: chiar din ADN....

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...

This CHRONOS Files short story appeared originally in CLONES: The Anthology

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...