Kendra Donvan Series

by Julie McElwain

Release: April 2016
Format: Novel
Genre: Mystery and Crime
Audience: Adults
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

While roleplaying as a 19th-century lady’s maid, vigilant FBI agent Kate Donovan finds herself thrown back to 1815 England where she fights the norms and mores of the time and solves a serial murder case. She hopes that solving the case will prompt her to be thrown back to the 21st century, but alas she seems fated to stay where she is to star in a series of mystery books along with her 19th-century host, the Duke of Aldrich, and his marquis nephew, the debonair Alex.

1. A Murder in Time (April 2016
2. A Twist in Time (April 2017
3. Caught in Time (July 2018
4. Betrayal in Time (July 2019
5. Shadows in Time (August 2020

— Michael Main

My best guess is that it was some sort of vortex or a wormhole.

DEBUT

Kendra Donovan Series, 5 books (Pegasus Crime, April 2016 to August 2020) [print · e-book].

VARIANTS

2 English variants

TRANSLATIONS

Translations to Japanese, Russian

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

Circa AD 1800 to 1899: Kendra arrives in August 1815.
Circa AD 2000 to 2099: presumed time period

Time Travel Methods

Time Rifts: Kendra’s speculates that the passage took her through a “vortex or wormhole,” although the claim is never substatiated and it could just as easily be tagged as a timeslip.

Themes

Caution! Do Not Destroy Spacetime Continuum!: Did she give him information that shouldn’t be around for another forty years, when a French physician began using insect life cycles to determine the time of death? Could that screw up the whole space-time continuum?
Stuck in Time

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)

From a secret passage in Aldrich Castle, outside of London, circa 2015 ⋙ to the same passage, August 1815. Note: Kendra’s initial time travel.