Collapse: The New Blackout Time Travel Novel

by Tobey Alexander

We live in a world where there are those among us who can make leaps back in time. Time-travel is not only possible, but its use puts the past, present and future at risk.

Michael Swann has discovered the curse of leaping and turned his back on it. Having exposed the truth behind a twisted military program, the Tempus Project, Swann is now on the run. Choosing live his life away from the world he left behind, everything at last feels normal. With his lover by his side Swann has become an anonymous face in the crowds, but all that is about to change.

When a face from his dark past at Tempus appears, injured and bloodstained, Swann has little choice but to go back into that world. With everything he holds dear now at risk, Swann must decipher the mystery of the Legacy Killer, an unknown murderer whose twisted trophy collecting killings span not only decades but centuries. What do the killings have to do with Swann and his ability? By chasing the shadows of the past, will it secure his freedom?

Follow Swann as he delves deeper into the past to discover the truth. Collapse adds to the world first introduced in Blackout but goes beyond the confines of a clandestine military project and brings the danger of interfering with the past to a worldwide stage. In an epic cat-and-mouse chase Swann will travel back to Feudal Japan, Chernobyl, war-ravaged Poland and Medieval Castles to save the world he holds closest.

Collapse is an action-filled and emotional journey to the darker places of history chasing shadows of the present. To protect the man he now loves, Michael must push himself further and harder than he ever has before.

267 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 1, 2020

About the author

It's always a bit weird trying to sum myself up in a paragraph or two but here goes. I'm a father-of-three curious little humans who probably reflect various elements of my personality, full-time worker on the Thin Blue Line, adventurer in my own right and live for the escape of the outdoors where I can. Ever since I was young I enjoyed creative alternative worlds and stories and I suppose having now "apparently" grown up I can put it to use as an author.

I write to release my own over-active imagination and at the heart of everything is always the idea of adventure. I want my books to offer everyone the chance to escape form the everyday routines and things that niggle at us. In my books for younger audiences I want to nurture that sense of wonder, intrigue and adventure I remember growing up. In the older audience I want to reinvigorate that sense and offer a break from mortgages, bills, work and stress.

I'm not perfect, far from it in fact and all I am trying to do is make the best of what I have. For me, over the years, I've found out I carry a rare genetic deletion with unknown effects but seems to put me on the autism spectrum. Learning that helped me accept that the "quirkiness" of my nature is more acceptable than I had thought. Every story I write, every book I release I have seen in my head, acted out and watched as if it were a film. The way my brain works helps me do this and I only hope you find something you enjoy in my stories.