Bøker av Paulene Turner

Time Travel Fact: Guns are not the only, nor the most effective, means of erasing an enemyWhen Madison and Riley return from medieval England, there's good news and bad. The good? They succeeded in their mission to un-erase a fellow student. The bad? A stowaway from the time period turns up in Maddy's science class, seeking revenge. The assassin tries to worm their way into Maddy's friend group and, with barbed comments and dirty tricks, force her out. Then they go further and kidnap Maddy's best friend, jumping through time and space with her.Maddy and Riley learn that the pair have gone to the wild west of America where cowboys and buffalo roam the plains. So they chase them, through dusty towns and saloons, across landscapes of epic beauty and danger. There's a price on their heads and bounty hunters on their trail.Will Maddy find her friend and escape the west? Or will she have to shoot it out with the assassin and watch the consequences cascade through the continuum for 150 years? A high-stakes fast-paced time travel adventure through the Wild West.

Time travel rule no.1 - No romance! After their Ancient Egyptian trip, 16-year-old Madison and Riley vowed never to time travel again. They'd set the world to rights-just-so that was that.Only back at school, not everything is right. A fellow student is missing. And he's not off sick or on holiday. No-one but Maddy and Riley even remembers his name.To get him back, they must travel to medieval England and repair his family timeline. They plan to find the family, fix the problem and leave-quick and clean. But, as medieval intrigue swirls about them-with murders, a castle siege and a mysterious knight in black bent on revenge-new loyalties draw them into a web of danger. Weapons and armies can change the course of history but Maddy knows matters of the heart can warp the timeline too. She avoids flirty knights and nobles. A relationship based on mutual antagonism seems safe enough--until the hostility ebbs away and a more dangerous emotion creeps in.They meant to tread lightly through time. Instead, they're leaving giant yeti-like footprints behind them, corrupting the time continuum and risking the future with those they love.A high-stakes fast-pace time travel adventure through medieval England.

If you're reading this, it may mean I don't exist any more. Time travel's like that. Here today, erased tomorrow. Madison Bryant, 16, is escaping an awkward romance when she leaps into her friend Riley's latest invention--a time machine--as it blasts off on its maiden voyage to Ancient Egypt. Setting down by the Nile in a swirl of sand, the pair plan to stay for a day or two and observe, not interact with anyone. But when a local girl invites them to her family home, they're drawn into village dramas and can't resist using their future knowledge to help. An epidemic of dental troubles? Riley introduces toothpaste to the ancient culture. The vizier's teenage son drowning in a hippo-filled river? Maddy rescues him using life-saving techniques acquired on a Sydney beach. Sure, she's read time travel stories with those warnings about not changing the past in case it changes the future in unpredictable ways. But they don't apply to her. She's just an ordinary girl--a mere speck of sand in the vast desert of time. And nothing she does could ever shift the course of the world. Could it?Secrets of the Nile is a high-stakes fast-paced adventure in mysterious Ancient Egypt. It is book one of six in The Time Travel Chronicles series.

Tales of deadly machinery have long fascinated us, from Edgar Allan Poe's classic pendulum to the Terminator films. Murder and Machinery pays homage to this tradition, offering you gripping tales following this theme but set in different times and places, from colonial America and London during the First World War to dystopian futures on this planet and beyond. Never before has an anthology brought tales of science fiction and suspense together in such a terrifying way, showcasing the nightmarish imagination of authors who know how to play on the reader's fears and who share those fears of uncontrollable machines, or perhaps even more frightening, of fellow humans mastering technology for their own evil purposes.A word of advice before you start. By all means, settle down in your living room and let this anthology of technological terror and mechanical madness enthral you, but first, you might want to lock your doors and switch the power off at the mains. Best keep it low-tech tonight. Trust me. I hope you have candles?The Secret Zeppelin - Duncan Richardson#Selfie - Linda BrucesmithFargan's Termination - Paul WilliamsA Little Kindness Goes a Long Way - Chisto HealyThe Box - Sarah Jane JusticeThe Wheel - Michael PiccoThe Wedge - Kurt NewtonTenterhooks - Cameron TrostLeonora - Danielle BirchVanitas - James DorrDon - Steve DuboisFoul Beasts - Karen BaylyA Whole New World - KG McAbeeSuicide Blonde - Paulene TurnerDriverless - Robert BagnallThe Screen in the Sky - Kerilee S. Nickles"Anxiety about machines taking over our existence and eventually becoming the catalyst for our destruction as a species is not a new concept. However, it is one that seems to have been shoved to the back of the fear line in the last decade, the dark fiction genres instead overrun with zombies, serial killers, and spirit possessions. We've forgotten, it seems, that the scariest creatures are the ones we usher willingly into our own homes. Luckily, the authors of Murder and Machinery: Tales of Technological Terror and Mechanical Madness are here to remind us. In a potluck of dystopian, steampunk, and sci-fi-inspired horror, Murder and Machinery has something for every speculative fiction fan, especially those for whom creepiness is best served on cold metal." - Rebecca Rowland, posted on Ginger Nuts of Horror