About Time: No. 5 in Time-Slip Mystery Series

by Michael Llewellyn

MADDY’S FIFTH AND MOST HARROWING ADVENTURE YET FINDS HER AT ODDS WITH ANCIENT EGYPT’S FIERCEST, MOST VENGEFUL PHARAOH!

Fans of Michael Llewellyn’s Madeleine Time-Slip Slip Series will be excited to know that his feisty heroine, New Orleans librarian Madeleine St. Jacques, has returned for a another captivating adventure. Summoned once again by the enigmatic August Ones, New Orleans librarian Madeleine St. Jacques is transported through time to Cairo, circa 1912. In the shadow of the Great Pyramid, she encounters famed criminal-turned-Egyptologist Theo Davis, his mistress, Emma Andrews and mysterious Anglo-Egyptian, Sitre Coleman, whom she joins for a cruise up the Nile on her private dahabiya. Each exotic port - Cairo, Luxor, Kom Ombo and Aswan - offers telling clues to Maddy’s unknown mission, as she encounters real-life financier J. P. Morgan, Howard Carter, the fiery archeologist destined to discover King Tutankhamun’s tomb, and more. When her voyage abruptly ends in a ruined fortress near the Sudanese border, Maddy is compelled to expose her true identity and is catapulted back to ancient Thebes where the sudden death of the boy-king Tutankhamun has triggered a dangerous power struggle for the throne. By the time her mission is finally revealed, Maddy is caught in a spiderweb of intrigue, conspiracy and murder. Her only hope to succeed is blocked by the vengeful general-turned-pharaoh, Horemheb. Will he submit to her demands, or is Maddy destined to be forever trapped 3000 years in the past?

Michael Llewellyn is the author of 26 books of historical fiction, true crime, southern humor and nonfiction travel. This is the fifth installment in the Madeleine time travel series.

309 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 18, 2025

About the author

My mom claims I started writing with my first box of Crayolas, with the dining room wall as my tabula rasa. I come by my passion naturally with a grandmother who was a published novelist and Methodist minister grandfather who wrote powerhouse sermons. The women in my family were memorists before it was trendy and a writer cousin, James Agee, won the Pulitzer. I hail from Fountain City, TN, and carry all the picaresque baggage from a '50s Southern childhood.

I spent the '70s and '80s in Greenwich Village. Although I never wrote the Great American Novel (as planned) I sold a bunch of Southern historical romances and adventure sagas before heading to New Orleans to water my Southern roots. My fascination with that city led to more books, my newest being "Creole Son." It's about French painter Edgar Degas and his sojourn to 1872 Louisiana that forever changed his style.

My ongoing wanderlust eventually landed me in California Wine Country which is surely some of God's most beautiful handiwork. When I'm not working on my new book I'm hiking the hilly vineyards and seaside cliffs and wondering how this Tennessee boy got so far from home.