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The Tempus Imperium

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The end justifies the means. The many over the few. Time travel has rules, as seventeen-year-old Charlie Lamp is about to learn. But what happens when you break one? When Charlie's grandmother is murdered, she is plunged into the world of the Temporal Sinistrum. A secretive... Read More
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When Charlie's grandmother is murdered, she is plunged into the world of the Temporal Sinistrum. An organisation of time travellers tasked with maintaining the historical timeline. Her grandmother used to be a star agent, and Charlie must solve the mystery in an adventure that takes her from 1966 Australia to a post-apocalyptic Los Angeles.

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The end justifies the means. The many over the few. Time travel has rules, as seventeen-year-old Charlie Lamp is about to learn.

But what happens when you break one?

When Charlie's grandmother is murdered, she is plunged into the world of the Temporal Sinistrum. A secretive organisation of time travellers tasked with maintaining the historical timeline. Her grandmother was once one of their star agents, and Charlie must step into her footsteps and solve the mystery of her death, in an adventure that takes her from Australia in 1966 to the post-apocalyptic wasteland of Los Angeles in 2120.

Charlie is a teenage girl, coming of age across multiple timelines as she investigates her grandmother's past as part of the Sinistrum, while still dealing with her complicated feelings for the boyfriend she left behind in 2016.

The Tempus Imperium is a novel for fans of Dr Who, Marvel and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. It's for those who love big, mind-bending adventures where the historical past of the Blitz and the Chernobyl disaster mixes with the dystopian future of Los Angeles and a cult sheltering in a missile silo.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781761111648

Publisher: Wombat Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 August 2024

Country: Australia

Imprint: Rhiza Edge

Edition: New edition

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: Teenage

DIMENSIONS

Width: 133.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 312

About the Author

Juliet A. Paine lives in Adelaide with her husband and two children. She has lived in San Diego, Vancouver and Hobart, where she learnt that she prefers the cold to a summer heatwave. She has a PhD in Creative Writing and has published two poetry collections. The Tempus Imperium is her first novel.

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