Mallory, a Canadian police detective, is in Scotland, keeping vigil at her grandmother’s side in hospice. While she is out on a break, running at night, she is attacked. When she wakes up, she finds herself in strange clothes, in a strange room—and no longer in the 21st century.
—Tandy Ringoringo
I’m trying to pass back through time by returning to the place where I crossed over. My brain says that makes logical sense, but I am well aware that it only makes sense because I’ve seen it in movies and read it in books. To return to your own time, you go back to that spot—that magical bridge between worlds. Or you go there and do something you did the last time and that makes you cross over. Maybe it’s a word or a phrase or an action or an emotion. Do that thing, and it will unlock the door through time.

Which is like saying that if I tap my ruby slippers three times I can go home again. I am basing my entire theory on the imagination of fiction writers. Not scientists, because there is no science. People can’t travel through time. Therefore, writers don’t need to worry about “getting it right.” They make up whatever they want.

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  1. A Rip through Time by Kelley Armstrong, 4 books plus 2 bonus stories (Minotaur et al., May 2022 to May 2025) .
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    • book 1.A Rip through Time by Kelley Armstrong (Minotaur Books et al., May 2022).
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    • book 2.The Poisoner’s Ring by Kelley Armstrong (Minotaur Books, May 2023).
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    • novella 2.5.Cocktails and Chloroform by Kelley Armstrong (Subterranean, December 2023).
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    • book 3.Disturbing the Dead by Kelley Armstrong (Minotaur Books, May 2024).
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    • novella 3.5.Schemes and Scandals by Kelley Armstrong (Subterranean, October 2024).
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    • book 4.Death at a Highland Wedding by Kelley Armstrong (Minotaur Books, May 2025).
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  2. audio reading.A Rip through Time by Kelley Armstrong, 4 books but no bonus stories (MacMillan Audio, May 2022 to May 2025) [audio].
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    • book 1 audio reading.A Rip through Time by Kelley Armstrong (MacMillan Audio, May 2022) [audio].
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    • book 2 audio reading.The Poisoner’s Ring by Kelley Armstrong (MacMillan Audio, May 2023) [audio] .
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    • book 3 audio reading.Disturbing the Dead by Kelley Armstrong (MacMillan Audio, May 2024) [audio] .
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    • book 4 audio reading.Death at a Highland Wedding by Kelley Armstrong (MacMillan Audio, May 2025) [audio] .
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  1. Novella Titles—For the ITTDB, we use quotation marks around titles of novellas in series, even when the novella is separately published. Also, we standardly change all ampersands to the word “and.”
  2. Book 5 Debut—is scheduled for 25 May 2025.