You can read along here as I put up new chapters in the Second Edition! Right now I’m working on the first book. Come along! The Chapters are linked below.

The Silverwood Clan were the keepers of the tools of time travel for centuries. But they were overtaken and scattered by the Council, who wanted that power for themselves. It hasn’t gone well. The Tromindox, ancient shape-shifting human-hunting creatures, are having a field day taking advantage of the situation.

Book 1: Silverwood

Since the Council took over the tools of time travel, members of the scattered Silverwood Clan have resorted to working as bounty hunters or freelance Agents or even been imprisoned. Worse, the Tromindox have brazenly stolen not only the Book of the Future but a large quantity of portals – giving them the means to feast on the future human population. Can one Silverwood family reunite and use their talents – some of which they don’t really understand or control yet – to get a step ahead of the shape shifters? Fourteen-year-old Helen Silverwood has dreams of creatures that sure look like Tromindox, and her younger brother Henry draws things that haven’t happened yet. Their mother is out all night working in some job that she doesn’t want to talk about. And their dad is – somewhere. Else.

In the first book everything leads to a remote town in the redwoods called Brokeneck, and its eccentric and complicated residents – like Eleanor Woods who runs the Brokeneck Hotel, Posey van Buren the local busybody/evidence gatherer, Daniel Brush, who ended up running the local bookstore when his Uncle supposedly disappeared into the local lake (it’s happening again) and Rose, who constantly knits so her departed husband (affectionately known as “Zombie Don”) will remain at rest.

Part I

Chapter 1 Helen Silverwood, fourteen, sat on the roof with her legs dangling over.Chapter 10
Chapter 2 The bounty hunter was late for work.Chapter 11
Chapter 3 One thing that I can tell you with absolute certainty: It is not a good feeling to be extinct.Chapter 12
Chapter 4 “Helen?” Said Henry. He tapped his foot on the floor.Chapter 13
Chapter 5 According to the family stories, Helen’s grandmother was a person who possessed a superhuman ability to make just about anything out of the parts of just about anything else. Chapter 14
Chapter 6 Doctor Julius Dinkle, esteemed member of the Council of Portals and renowned expert on Tromindox behavior and culture, was tense.Chapter 15
Chapter 7 The chamber of the Council of Portals was abuzz with anxious voices talking over one another. Doctor Dinkle was not present.Chapter 16
Chapter 8 Mrs. Woods was a compact and solid and sun-dried woman with wise eyes.Chapter 17
Chapter 9