Jack the Ripper, Sitting Bull, Arthur Conan Doyle, Buffalo Bill and the Peaky Blinders all star in this, the second season of the hit time travel historical fantasy saga.

"Inventively brilliant alternative history."

In the fallout from Touchstone Season 1's epic finale, villains Danny Pearce and Kath Bright are trapped in very different hostile worlds, blind to their true identities and struggling to atone for sins they can't remember. 

" As gripping as ever! Couldn't put it down."

From the streets of Birmingham to the sidewalks of New York, from the slums of Victorian England to the Great Plains of the American West, the Touchstone world expands to an epic scale. 

"Ripping yarns, meticulously researched and genuinely shocking when they need to be."

This eBook Box Set (comprising a quarter of a million words and 1000 pages in the original paperback editions) collects the first three novels of Touchstone Season 2 and the prequel short story Buffalo Bill and the Peaky Blinders, previously only available in the anthology, New Street Stories.

"Touchstone saga at its best. Absolutely brilliant and highly recommended."

Contains the following titles:

1. Buried in Time [1888]

2. Bright Star Falling [1874-1887]

3. Buffalo Bill and the Peaky Blinders [1887]

4. Bright Star Rising [1887]

Don't look back or the devil will get you...

Taking up a new job at the Birmingham Central Library, Kath Bright is haunted by sinister occurrences in the brutalist concrete complex.  

It's 2008 and Britain slides into its first credit crunch Christmas.  But money troubles are not Kath's only concern as she uncovers a chilling tale of witch hunts and a Victorian murder mystery from the archives.  But this past becomes very real and there's a killer on her trail. 

The dark anti-heroine of the bestselling time travel saga gets her own personal origin story in this novella that reveals how she first found her touchstone.

"Brilliant... a great story... back to the best for me."

"I read this book in one sitting - I loved it!"

"Love the atmosphere in this story - 'deep and crisp and evil' - wonderful." 

"Couldn't put it down! Really loved it and didn't want it to end." 

A boy out of time. A girl to save Britain. A war between them.

<h2>Drawn to a portrait of 1940s screen star, Eleanor Gale, teenager Mitch finds himself pursuing a romance across oceans of time while foiling a Nazi plot to invade Britain.</h2> 

In 1984, young Raheem 'Mitch' Mitchell is a teenager who doesn't fit. A 'young fogey' in vintage clothes, obsessed with old music and old movies, suffering fits that mystify doctors, he is a boy out of time.

Falling in love with long lost movie star Eleanor Gale, he visits the Welsh town where her greatest film was shot... 

... and finds himself back in time, face to face with the woman of his dreams.

In 1941, he works on the film that might save Britain from Nazi invasion, and investigates the traitor in their midst who is working to make that invasion happen. But just who is the secret German spy? Is it the cinematographer who was trained in Berlin before the war? Is it dashing actor and love rival Denholm Bourne? 

Or might it be Eleanor herself? Just what dark secret is she hiding?

Mystery, suspense, secrets, romance, and a good old dose of derring-do. Haunted Town is the latest historical thriller in the Touchstone Origins series.

Mystery, suspense, blackmail and scandal in 1908 New York... 

To live for you, to die for you...

Searching for his long lost love, reluctant time traveler Mitch finds himself in 1908 New York, caught up in a dark case of blackmail and secrets with famous composer Gustav Mahler and his wife Alma.

Investigating a mysterious threatening letter, Mitch must walk two contrasting worlds: uptown high society where opera-loving millionaires plot and scheme, and downtown ghettos where Jewish mobsters battle Chinatown gangsters for control of jazz clubs and nickelodeons.

Featuring a teenage Irving Berlin, jazz pioneer James Reese Europe, a young Duke Ellington, corrupt police chief Charles Becker, and notorious gangsters Big Jack Zelig and Mock Duck, Unfinished Sympathy is a gripping thriller of murder, blackmail, adultery and scandal set in the last days of New York's Gilded Age.

<H2><i>Before A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens meets three ghosts out of time...</i> Christmas Eve. 1842. New Street, Birmingham. The present and the future haunt the past when a pair of reluctant time travellers find themselves stranded in Victorian Britain.</H2>

Fred Smith is a young man caught in a street riot in 1934. Mrs Hudson is an old lady who can't remember why she's at the station in 2019. Fred wants to change the world, Mrs Hudson wants to protect time. Can they work together to get back to the future?

Is the secret to their timeslip something to do with Belle, the young orphan girl staging the Christmas pantomime for the city's poor children? Or the 'Worst Man in Birmingham', notorious miser and vicious businessman, Ebenezer Swingeford? Is it oppressed clerk, Bob Cratchit and his rebellious son, not-so-tiny Tim?

Or could it be something to do with Charles Dickens, the young author visiting the city on secret business, on the verge of bankruptcy and desperate for his next big literary success?

Whoever holds the answer, the city's notorious criminal gang, the precursors to the Peaky Blinders, are out to rob a fortune, and they will murder anyone who gets in their way... just like their leader, Slogger Pike, murdered  old Jacob Marley on this very night, eight years ago. 

As the snow falls on Christmas Eve, ghosts lost in time haunt the dark heart of the city in search of the true meaning of Christmas.

The Ghosts of Christmas Past is the thirteenth novel in the bestselling time travel historical fantasy series.

"I believe it's one of the best series of its kind."

Six books and a century of time travel. Rachel Hines is lost in time. How will she find her way back to her real life? Touchstone Season 1 is a moving saga that has won rave reviews from young and old readers alike with its intelligent blend of time travel, science fiction and historical fantasy.

In a small corner of an English city, dirt poor Rachel Hines and rich kid Danny Pearce are a pair of History students whose destinies become entangled when an old gravestone catapults them into their city's dark past - a gritty, violent, gaslit world of real danger - where they find that every action has an unforeseen consequence that can ripple through generations, and that some characters from the past have seen them before.

"If you haven't read this series yet — you simply must! But beware — you will be hooked!!"

This Ebook Box Set edition contains all six novels in Touchstone Season 1, comprising over a quarter of a million words, and 1000 pages in the original paperback editions.

"Had me hooked from start to finish... It's a magnificent story."

Contains the following titles:
1. The Sins of the Fathers [1912]
2. Family at War [1940]
3. All the Time in the World [1966]
4. Station at the End of Time [1959]
5. Let's Fall in Love for the Last Time [1934]
6. Fade to Grey [1980]