Lost in Time

Absolom Sciences has built a machine that has nearly ended violent crime. Convicted murderers are no longer jailed. They are sent roughly 200 million years into the past, to spend the rest of their lives alone among the dinosaurs.

Physicist Sam Anderson helped invent that machine. When his colleague and secret partner, Dr. Nora Thomas, is murdered, Sam is charged with the killing. He has a nineteen-year-old daughter, Adeline, and to protect her he confesses to a crime he did not commit. Then he is sent back through time.

The story runs on two tracks. In the deep past, Sam is stranded and has to find a way to stay alive in a prehistoric world. In the present, Adeline refuses to accept his loss. She sets out to clear his name and to find a way to bring him home.

This is a science-fiction thriller built around a murder mystery, and it moves at a fast pace. The two timelines fold into one puzzle, and the pieces do not fit together until the final pages.