INTRODUCED BY A CHARACTER FROM THE STORY: "Hi, I'm Caitlin and I thought I'd fallen in love with a marvellous guy. But he's not who I thought he was."My dad found out the truth about Marcus and it's ended up with me trapped in this place. Nobody knows where I am – I mean, I don't even know where I am. I hope somebody's looking for me, especially my sister, Michelle. She's a badass.​"If I knew then what I know now, I'd never have started dating the guy. He's the stuff nightmares are made of – if everybody on the planet dreamt the same nightmare simultaneously.​"Rich and charming, he had me fooled, but he's pure evil and must be stopped.​"But who can stand up to the Illuminati?"

Extreme Steampunk cosplayer Aristotle is a Temporal Private Investigator. His normal cases tend to be investigating cheating spouses by travelling back in time to catch them in flagrante delicate. A messy job but someone has to do it.He's in a the British Library, researching background information for a new case, when the text and images on the page he's reading disappear before his very eyes. Members of Project Clockwise, the team that discovered time travel are being wiped from existence.Can Aristotle stop the erasures and save both time travel and his job?

It's just another day at Lowell Observatory, Arizona until Amy, one of the astrophysicists on duty, notices something on a computer screen that shouldn't be there. It's an asteroid, a Near-Earth Object, and its orbit trajectory will lead it to collide with Earth. And it's as big as the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.​NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office springs into action with three potential solutions - detonating an explosive device near the asteroid to break it up into smaller, less dangerous chunks, firing lasers to heat up and vaporize the space rock enough to change its orbital path, or sending a spacecraft to slam into the asteroid, knocking it off its trajectory.​Nations rally round to help ensure humankind's survival and a project to build a kinetic impact rocket gets underway. However, there are forces at work that want to prevent the launch of the rocket and write humankind's death warrant.. What...

Introduced by a character from the story: "My friend and his twin brother have gone crazy. I think one of them might be Marcus - or, at least, who Marcus is now.​"We were at their seventh birthday party and they just started stabbing and killing the other children. They even killed their own mum and dad!​"Me and Stephen only just got away but they're chasing after us. I'm Martin, Martin Dier, by the way. You have met me before but probably don't recognise me.​"And it's not just the twins. They've got a couple of friends with them - a bigger boy and a girl who's batshit crazy. She swears a lot.​"If they catch us, they'll kill us. You'd better run or they'll kill you too!"

(Introduced by one of the characters in the story) "First of all, my name's Simon, not kid.​"And yes, I know I'm only ten years old but I'm not too young to bear a grudge. My grudge is over one hundred years old, anyway. Yes, you heard me right. Over one hundred years.​"My mum did something terrible to me in a past life, She doesn't remember but I do. I'm a Recarn and we remember our past lives – all of them.​"So now my mum has to pay. And I'm not going to stop there, I have ambitions, things I want to do. I have plans bigger than you could ever think of. Nobody's going to get in my way.​"Not even you!"

Introduced by one of the story's characters:​"Sorry about this. I know it's not the ideal situation, meeting me for the first time and me having a dead body at my feet. Not a good first impression. But anyway,.. I'm Judd Witherspoon and I'm a courier.​You're still distracted by the dead guy? I didn't want to kill him. I told him to go and I'd forget he ever tried to rob me, but he wouldn't listen – he wanted this box and wouldn't take no for an answer.​And there was no way that I was going to let him take it. That box is more precious to me than my own life. If anybody takes it from me it'll be from my cold dead hands. So...he wouldn't listen and now he's dead. I'll give him a decent burial, don't worry. Even though he's a thief. I have to get this box to Paradise Cove as soon as possible so the sooner he's underground – well, under rocks –the...