The Cheviot Hills Time Travel Books in Order

The Cheviot Hills Time Travel series shifts the familiar second‑chance idea into the setting of World War II Britain. Co‑written with Kirsten McKenzie, it follows Diana Penn, a retired intelligence officer who thinks she has finally earned a quiet life.

In the present day, Diana is living in Northumberland, near the Cheviot Hills, when a demolition crew uncovers unexploded bombs buried in a local park. Her instincts, honed during a career with the security services, tell her something is wrong. Before she can act, the bombs detonate. Instead of dying, she wakes up in December 1944 in the body of her much younger self.

In this earlier life, Diana is serving in the Women’s Land Army, posted to what looks like a sleepy English town not far from where she used to live in retirement. On the surface, her days are filled with farm work, rationing, and the ordinary strain of wartime shortages. Underneath, she begins to notice strange patterns: people who do not quite fit, rumors that do not match official reports, and hints that someone is using the chaos of war for more than simple espionage.

Armed with knowledge of the future and the cool head of a seasoned operative, Diana has to decide how much to change. Saving lives and stopping disasters is tempting, but she knows that history is fragile. The more she interferes, the more she risks creating a future worse than the one she left behind.

Unlike the Middle Falls books, which largely stay within one small town, the Cheviot Hills story moves between cozy village scenes, tense intelligence work, and flashes of the modern world Diana remembers. It keeps the focus tight on her: a woman who has already lived through these years once and is now forced to navigate them again with different priorities and much heavier experience.

The tone mixes wartime mystery with time‑travel stakes. There are blackouts, village dances, and whispered rumors in pubs, but also sabotage, coded messages, and the looming question of whether Diana is meant to avert a specific catastrophe or simply bear witness. Readers familiar with the broader Inmon universe will spot links to Middle Falls rules about second chances, but you do not need to have read any other series to follow this one.

The Cheviot Hills books are a good fit if you like character‑driven time travel grounded in real history: less about gadgets and paradoxes, more about one woman weighing duty, regret, and the cost of rewriting her own life and the lives of those around her.