Proper Time: A Redshift Space Opera, Book 1

by Burt Johnson

Time is no longer a straight line. It's a weapon.

Yara Kessler was supposed to arrive in three months. Instead, she crashes into a future three years ahead-disoriented, displaced, and carrying a memory no one else a brutal massacre that hasn't happened yet.

No one believes her.

While Yara fights to convince a skeptical system that the future can be changed, investigator Ines Ochoa is recruited into the Temporal Crimes Bureau-a fragile authority tasked with policing a universe where criminals escape justice by slipping through time itself.

In this world, evidence can vanish into the past. Witnesses may not exist yet. And the truth depends on which timeline you're standing in.

As Yara's warning and Ines's investigation begin to collide, a deeper pattern emerges-one that suggests the timeline isn't just breaking…

It's being rewritten.

And if they fail to stop it, the future won't just be lost-it will be replaced.

357 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 8, 2026