The Five Seconds Series
Five Seconds Too Late
Book One
What would you do if time dragged you into the final moments before disaster?
Professor Everett Frankwyler spent his life chasing a theory no one believed—
that time is reactive, emotional, and alive.
When the device he built hurls him into history, Everett discovers the truth:
It doesn’t just reveal the past.
It drops him into the last five seconds before tragedy strikes.
With him is Oliver Keen, a grad student who only wanted to finish his thesis. Instead, he becomes an unwilling witness to catastrophe after catastrophe—fighting to survive each jump while Everett’s mind and body begin to fracture under the strain.
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Five Seconds Too Soon
Book Two
What if a machine could pull you into the past—
but never where, when, or why you expected?
Megan Toole never meant to uncover a forgotten time-travel experiment. A sealed archive box, a corrupted USB drive, and a trail of fractured research pull her into the aftermath of a project that broke the people who built it. The logs she finds aren’t just records—they’re warnings. Coordinates. Trauma. Regret. And they all point toward one missing name: Professor Everett Frankwyler.
Determined to understand the device and the tragedies it left behind, Megan follows the scattered clues into a world of abandoned labs, unstable survivors, and a writer whose “fiction” reads more like testimony. The deeper she digs, the more she realizes the jumps weren’t random… and they’re not done.
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Five Seconds Too Late
Book Three Coming SOON
History is no longer the greatest danger.
As uncontrolled jumps drag Megan Toole and her allies into some of humanity’s darkest moments, the rules of time begin to break down. Reality fractures. The device evolves. And the cost of every jump grows harder to ignore.
Reflections lag behind. Voices desynchronize. Memories blur. And something hidden within the fabric of time itself seems to be pushing back.
With the future of the timeline hanging in the balance, Megan must decide how far she’s willing to go to finish what Everett Frankwyler started.
Because some doors were never meant to be opened.
And time always collects its debt.