Echoes in Snowfall

by Tess Manchester

Time is her weapon. Justice is her mission. Vengeance is her promise.

Haunted by her brother’s unsolved murder at the hands of a fugitive, resolute U.S. Marshal Blake Everhart has spent years hunting the assailant with a dangerous she can manipulate time itself. When a covert assignment sends her deep undercover to infiltrate a treacherous criminal organization, she discovers she’s not the only one tampering with the fabric of reality. Salvatore Ravana, whose twisted command over time rivals her own, has built an empire of assassins for his dark ambitions.

Blake races from a frozen wilderness to the murky depths of a conspiracy that threatens everyone she cares about. Every second counts, every choice ripples across past and future, and one wrong move could unravel everything.

Will Blake stop the mysterious organization and find her brother’s killer? Or will her pursuit of justice destroy everything she’s sworn to protect?

Don’t miss Echoes in Snowfall, the gritty True Time thriller series conclusion where some debts can only be paid in blood. Fierce heroines, brutal criminals, and heart-racing danger in this time-bending adventure pierce like a shotgun blast to the chest.

Echoes in Snowfall is book 3 of the True Time series by Tess Manchester.

248 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 23, 2025

Reviews

[Rebel · Rating 5 out of 5]

From the very first chapter, Echoes in Snowfall grabbed me by the collar and didn’t let go. Blake Everhart isn’t just a heroine—she’s a force of nature. Her grief, her grit, and her unwavering determination to bring her brother’s killer to justice had me rooting for her like I was right there, badge in hand.
This isn’t just a chase—it’s a war against an enemy who can bend time as dangerously as Blake can. Salvatore Ravana is the kind of villain you love to hate, and every face-off between them crackles with tension. Tess Manchester has this way of making time travel feel urgent and dangerous, and in this final installment, the stakes couldn’t be higher.
The settings are vivid—from icy wilderness landscapes that bite at your skin to shadowy underworlds where danger lurks in every breath. Every second in this book matters, and I felt that tension in my bones. The plot twists hit hard, the action is relentless, and the emotional punches? Devastating in the best way.
By the end, my heart was racing, my knuckles were white from gripping the book, and I had that bittersweet ache that comes with finishing a story you didn’t want to end. Whether you’ve been following the True Time series from the beginning or you’re diving in here, this book delivers everything—high stakes, unforgettable characters, and an ending that’s as satisfying as it is explosive.
If you like your thrillers gritty, emotional, and laced with mind-bending twists, Echoes in Snowfall will own your weekend.

[Cath · Rating 5 out of 5]

US Marshall Blake Everhart has gone undercover as Sarah Ashford, with an organisation she holds responsible for her brother Dominic’s death. The criminal organisation seems to be using assassinations as a weapon to take over companies and government positions. She will be tested and kept isolated, while the organisation, run by Salvatore Ravana, sees if she can be trusted or not. They send her to watch over a heist they are carrying out, but the heist is just part of a convoluted scheme of events to distract from the real action they are taking out in killing a targeted person on their list. The organisation is building up to a huge finale where they will carry out a series of assassinations for Salvatore’s own evil ambitions. Blake went silent on her handler, Jamal Moss, after killing a man to protect Hammond, one of the organisation’s men and her way in. She had to leave her phone and everything else behind, to join this group, leaving her life behind. But she has a secret skill, the ability to travel back into a specific time and place, to rewrite events and have another chance to change what happens around her. There are limits to her ability however, as she found when she couldn’t save her own brother and she is determined to get revenge against those responsible for his death. Her close friend, Dr Naomi Preston, soon gets pulled into the situation when Blake’s handler Jamal Moss and her former supervisor, Bill Walenski, come to see her and to ask if she had heard from Blake.

Naomi decides to try and join the organisation, using her medical skills as a calling card and soon finds herself mixed up in the mission for justice and vengeance that Blake first set out upon. Naomi’s now jailed husband, proves to be able to give her an opening into the organisation, although she will also have to go through a testing time to check on her credentials! What Blake doesn’t realise until she is in the midst of Salvatore’s organisation, is that he also has the ability to tamper with time and is much more determined to change it to get what he wants, no matter what happens to others. So long as it can be changed to his own aims and outcomes, that is fine with him, even his wife Carmen. Blake wants to stop what his organisation is doing, but her main mission is to find out, who within the group, killed her brother, and to get her revenge upon them. Her actions mean she must make the ultimate sacrifice each time she wants to alter time, leaving a ripple like effect that some people can sense, and the storyline shows the echoes of what occurs when she does so in an engaging manner. There will be a dangerous final face-off between Blake and Salvatore, where each step either takes is easily negated by the other. Only an unscripted and unexpected move may break the level playing field they both stand upon, and stop one of them from getting what they want. A great method of showing time travel in minute detail, as time gets altered even just by minutes, to reverse what has just happened into a new outcome. A battle of good versus evil, but with a main character who is twisted by the need for her own personal vengeance plan!

I received an ARC copy of this book from BookSprout, and I have freely given my own opinion of the book above.

[Shree G · Rating 2 out of 5]

What began as a book review soon turned into an escape room experience. As one of the rare DNF books for me, I cringe to leave negative marks for the book because it obviously has undergone a lot of TLC by many wise men and women (and AI, as the beginning of the book mentions). Nevertheless, I promised BookSprout to leave an honest review and am compelled to at least write one to explain my ordeal.

I read the first four chapters, and almost the entirety of them are in third person. There is no introduction to the plot, no background, just a female James Bond on a ski slope chasing an asset TWICE—first in her dream and again without much of a different approach the second time, too. This is the third book in the series, and I just wonder if one has to read the first two to get a better introduction to the protagonist.

Then the looong, descriptive sentences as if this was originally intended to be written as a movie script. I often found myself in chagrin, waiting for a sentence to end. I mean, well, wait. Read this as a sampler:

Naomi flinches, sending the arrow astray to pierce the outer black ring of the practice target twenty yards away. The arrow strikes far from her previous two arrows nestled in the yellow ring. The string slaps her arm guard with a thwack, reverberating through her bones. Naomi whirls in the direction of the jarring voice, her dahlia-blonde hair whipping over her shoulder.

I'm not sure if this is Ernest Hemmingway-meets-Ian-Fleming. No offence to the author and publisher, but this one was sadly not for me.

[jamie Wyatt · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a great ride reading this amazing book it will take you on a roller coaster ride twists n turns you will not see coming! You will not be able to put this book down! The Characters and the story line is so captivating what a Thriller!