Books

This Was a Bad Idea

Book One of the Time Keeper’s Saga

History doesn’t stand a chance.

Jimmy never asked to be called the “Time Keeper.” In fact, he doesn’t even know what it means. One minute he’s fumbling with a jerry-rigged time machine, the next he’s crash-landing into the most dangerous night in American history—Ford’s Theatre, 1865. All he wants is to survive. All history wants is for him to stop screwing things up.

Unfortunately, Jimmy isn’t alone. His best friend, Gary, is along for the ride—loyal, enthusiastic, and chronically unlucky. Between Gary’s knack for getting captured and Jimmy’s talent for tripping over his own feet, the fate of the timeline has never been in shakier hands.

But their misadventure isn’t limited to Earth’s past. Beyond the chaos of Lincoln’s assassination lies Jopulous—a strange and mythic city where a council whispers of destiny, battles rage in the shadows—and the title “Time Keeper” carries a weight Jimmy can’t escape. The more he runs from it, the more the universe insists on pulling him deeper in.

Fast-paced, hilarious, and unexpectedly epic, This Was a Bad Idea launches the Time Keeper’s Saga with a blend of comic banter, historical danger, and mythic intrigue. Perfect for fans of Douglas Adams, Doctor Who, and anyone who’s ever wondered what would happen if the fate of history rested in the hands of two guys who really, really shouldn’t be in charge.

Killing Some Time

Book Two of the Time Keeper’s Saga   

Some battles don’t leave scars you can see.  

Ferri has learned how to survive by staying quiet, keeping his head down, and being very, very good at basketball. On the court, the rules make sense. Off it, Flemett doesn’t. Power is arbitrary, cruelty is routine, and safety is something you borrow-never something you own.

Taylor watches from the edges. He’s been lucky so far. Untouched. Unnoticed. But luck, like everything else in Flemett, has an expiration date. The more he sees, the harder it becomes to pretend that staying out of trouble is the same thing as staying safe.

What neither of them understands is that their lives are brushing up against something much larger than the walls that hold them. The choices they make-who they protect, who they abandon, and what they’re willing to risk-are beginning to echo far beyond Flemett’s yard.

Killing Some Time steps sideways into the Time Keeper’s Saga, grounding its mythic machinery in quiet dread, human endurance, and the moments that shape people long before history ever learns their names. Tense, intimate, and unsettling, it’s a reminder that not every fracture in the timeline announces itself with a flash of light-some begin with a look, a silence, or a single bad night that never really ends.

What We Thought Was True

Book Three of the Time Keeper’s Saga   

The simulation’s only flaw was making them real.   

Otto wakes up on a sandstone tower with no memory, a backpack of cryptic tools, and a bottomless abyss surrounding him. Somewhere across the towers, Deacon wakes up to the same impossible landscape-and promptly falls off.

What neither of them knows is that they aren’t really there at all.

A few wires and screens away, at the National Institute of Human Research and Development, Dr. Benji is running the most ambitious simulation in human history-and her new intern, Lisa, is about to stumble into the middle of it. What starts as a quirky government job becomes something stranger, more dangerous, and far more personal than either woman bargained for, as the lines between the simulated and the real begin to blur in ways no one anticipated.

What We Thought Was True rockets the Time Keeper’s Saga into its boldest territory yet, threading together artificial consciousness, rogue intelligence, and the question that quietly haunts every page: if the life you’re living isn’t the one you were born into-does that make it any less yours? With the wit and momentum fans of the series have come to expect, Book Three pushes the characters toward a threshold they can’t uncross-and a new existence waiting on the other side.

The towers were only the beginning.

Land of the Virtuous Dead

Book Four of the Time Keeper’s Saga   

There’s another place the dead go.

And it’s not one you’ve heard of.

It was built for order.

But order doesn’t last forever.

In the shadowy after-realm known only to the dead, the ancient system that once judged every soul is starting to slip. Rules bend. Old truths fracture. And a few unexpected souls are drifting off-script.

Meanwhile, the city of Jopulous teeters on the edge of uncertainty. With the Ardent-select missing, Lady Befrut does what she can to steady the people-but time is running out. She needs to find someone or something to restore what’s been lost… before the city slips too far.

Worlds are bleeding together. Paths are crossing.

And at the center of it all: a quiet unraveling.

The ones caught in the middle?

They weren’t chosen. They weren’t ready.

But they might be the only ones who can rewrite what comes next.

Land of the Virtuous Dead is a mind-bending dive into what happens when fate misfires and the dead start asking questions. With rich worldbuilding, strange hope, and just enough existential dread to keep things interesting, this is the Time Keeper’s Saga at its most haunting-and most human.

For fans of cosmic mystery, fractured afterlives, and stories that tug at the threads behind the curtain.