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The Tempus Imperium
- Author
- Juliet A. Paine
- Narrator
- Lyndal Curran Doolan
- Publisher
- Thrive Audio
- Publish Date
- 2 December 2025
- Run Time
- 9 hours 11 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
The end justifies the means.
The many over the few.
Time travel has rules as seventeen-year-old Charlie Lamp is about to learn.
But what happens when you break one?
When Charlie’s grandmother is murdered, Charlie is plunged into the world of the Temporal Sinistrum. A secretive organisation of time travellers tasked with maintaining the historical timeline. Her grandmother was once one of their star agents, and Charlie must step into her footsteps and solve the mystery of her death, in an adventure that takes her from Australia in 1966 to the post-apocalyptic wasteland of Los Angeles in 2120.
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Details
- Author
- Juliet A. Paine
- Narrator
- Lyndal Curran Doolan
- Duration
- 9 hours 11 minutes
- Release Date
- 2 December 2025
- ISBN
- 9798228742185
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Thrive Audio
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage fiction: Science fiction, Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Speculative, dystopian and utopian fiction, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Fantasy
Synopsis
The end justifies the means.The many over the few.Time travel has rules as seventeen-year-old Charlie Lamp is about to learn.But what happens when you break one?When Charlie’s grandmother is murdered, Charlie is plunged into the world of the Temporal Sinistrum. A secretive organisation of time travellers tasked with maintaining the historical timeline. Her grandmother was once one of their star agents, and Charlie must step into her footsteps and solve the mystery of her death, in an adventure that takes her from Australia in 1966 to the post-apocalyptic wasteland of Los Angeles in 2120.
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