John A. Heldt Books in Order

A forty-eight-year-old widow travels back to Oregon in 1979, the setting of her final year at school. Returning to a younger world gives her an unexpected opportunity to confront her past and reconsider her life.

College student Joel Smith enters an abandoned mine in 2000 and emerges in 1941. Trying to survive in an unfamiliar Seattle, he befriends people connected to his own past and falls in love as war approaches.

New graduate Kevin Johnson discovers a portal to Idaho in 1910. As teaching, romance, and a meeting with his ancestor draw him into the past, the approach of a historic wildfire threatens his new connections.

Following Joel into the twenty-first century, Grace discovers that time travel still has surprises in store. Another portal sends her to 1918, where family history, wartime dangers, and her own future become unexpectedly entangled.

Twin sisters Ginny and Katie leave the familiar world of 2020 and find themselves in 1964. Their journey through a changing America challenges assumptions about family, belonging, and the lives they expected to lead.

Grieving a husband who died during an affair, Susan travels with her mother and daughter into 1938 New Jersey. Encounters with family history and unexpected romance become entangled with troubling political connections as war approaches.

Reporter Chuck Townsend and his college-dropout son travel into the past, finding romance and a murder mystery in Galveston. Their new lives unfold under the threat of the catastrophic hurricane that will strike the city in 1900.

Two sisters from 2017 meet two brothers from 1959 through a professor’s time portal. Repeated journeys between eras bring romance and adventure, but danger and divided attachments complicate their efforts to choose where they belong.

A photograph of a society editor murdered in 1925 draws graduate student Cameron Coelho into a historical mystery. Meeting a professor with a time portal lets him investigate firsthand, pursuing both answers and an unexpected chance at love.

After losing a child, Ron and Claire Rasmussen struggle to build the family they long for. Their journey into 1945 brings new hope through adoption, but the closing months of World War II place their future in danger.

When his parents vanish, Adam Carson discovers they are trapped in the past and recruits his siblings to find them. Their search takes them to the 1880s, where new attachments and an approaching flood threaten the rescue.

Still searching for their missing parents, the Carson siblings settle in wartime Arizona hoping for a respite. Romance, injustice and the risks of knowing the future soon complicate their efforts to build families and find a way home.

Separated across 1918, the time-traveling Carson family searches for a way to reunite. Their paths cross wartime Europe, Mexico, and Minnesota, where personal discoveries unfold against dangers they know history has already recorded.

In 1962, Caitlin Carson seeks a new beginning after losing her first love. A murder mystery with consequences across time draws her family into an urgent effort to prevent a crime that could change their lives.

Following their missing parents’ history, the Carson siblings arrive at a Maine summer camp in 1983. Jobs, romance, and dangerous secrets complicate what may be their final opportunity to bring the time-scattered family together.

Hiding in 1920s New York, the time-traveling Lanes pursue family life, friendship, and new opportunities. Their former business partner sends a killer to recover his machines, while an ally in the present tries to protect them.

The Lane family seeks breathing space in Chicago during the 1893 World’s Fair, while Jordan searches for purpose in Nevada. Their pursuer remains determined to retrieve the stolen time machines, threatening each fragile new beginning.

Discovering that his business partner intends to misuse time travel, physicist Mark Lane takes the machines and his family to 1865. Building new lives becomes a fight for survival when their enemy sends an assassin after them.

Settling in California in 1963, the Lanes hope to end their flight through time. As Ashley navigates school and first romance, the family plans to confront the billionaire pursuing them without sacrificing an innocent child’s future.

The Lanes seek refuge on Oahu in the months before Pearl Harbor, while Jordan tracks their persistent enemy. Knowing what history holds offers little safety when an assassin intends to interfere with America’s entry into the war.

After inheriting their grandfather’s mysterious shed, orphaned brothers Noah and Jake travel from 2024 to Revolutionary Philadelphia. What begins as a visit to history becomes a life-changing adventure when they form attachments in 1776.

Noah and Jake face the later years of the American Revolution with increasingly different responsibilities. As one serves Washington and the other struggles with remaining behind, a British intelligence officer pursues secrets that could alter the war.

Settled in Revolutionary America, Noah joins the Continental Army while Jake helps their adopted household survive British occupation. Relatives in 2024 conceal the brothers’ disappearance as war and competing loyalties test their commitments to the past.

College graduates Nick Robinson and Zach Taylor find themselves caught in the Second World War. Their journey connects Florida and England across the 1940s and the 2020s, putting their lives far beyond familiar surroundings.