Time Travel Books in Order
Part ofElyse Douglas Books in OrderBrowse the Time Travel books by Elyse Douglas in order, with short summaries, series background, and easy help choosing a first read.
Last updated: June 8, 2026
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Publication Order
13 books
Time Change
by Elyse Douglas
2019
A 1948 film star and a 2019 writer begin seeing each other in photographs taken at the same Long Island beach house. When time bends and they meet face to face, both must decide what love is worth across decades.
Time Shutter
by Elyse Douglas
2020
Caitlin Thompson uses a mysterious camera to blast her violent half-sister into 1890, then follows to finish the fight. In the past, revenge, missing technology, and gambler Jack Flint turn her plan into a fight for survival.
Time With Norma Jeane
by Elyse Douglas
2020
A troubled teenager is swept into 1954 and picked up on the roadside by her idol, Marilyn Monroe. What follows is an intimate time-slip story about fame, loneliness, and the urge to change a tragedy you already know.
Time Sensitive
by Elyse Douglas
2021
Still haunted by a family tragedy in 1968, Charlotte Vance is offered one slim chance to go back and change it. What starts as a rescue mission becomes a tense race against time, memory, and unintended consequences.
Time Stranger
by Elyse Douglas
2021
During a 1944 London air raid, Anne Billings is torn from her small son and wakes in 2008 with no memory. As her past returns, she must find a way home while dodging forces that want the truth about her impossible arrival.
Time Visitor
by Elyse Douglas
2021
When a World War II Navy plane lands near Gretchen Walsh's Ohio home in 2005, her grief-struck life changes overnight. Falling for the pilot is the easy part, surviving the consequences of his arrival is not.
Time Zone
by Elyse Douglas
2022
Commercial pilot Lane Carson survives a failing flight only to wake in 1942 after a strange flash of light. Desperate to return to her young daughter, she tries to survive the past without losing her future.
Time and Tide
by Elyse Douglas
2023
Gillian Woodruff is swept from a 2023 honeymoon yacht into 1900 after a violent storm at sea. Stranded on a Massachusetts coast, she uncovers family corruption, hard choices, and a love that could change her own future.
Time Passage
by Elyse Douglas
2023
After killing her billionaire boyfriend in self-defense, Cindy Downing flees on a train and wakes on an 1880 locomotive. With her identity stolen and a forced marriage looming, survival matters as much as getting home.
Time Past
by Elyse Douglas
2023
At seventy-four, Kate Clarke returns to the Ohio town that shaped her biggest regret and emerges from a cave in 1968, young again. To save her first love, she must navigate a past that keeps shifting beneath her.
Time Lost
by Elyse Douglas
2024
In 1953, Sally Mason is driving home from night school when a strange light throws her and her car into 2023. Far from her children and everything she knows, she faces a mystery that may demand an impossible sacrifice.
Time Parallel
by Elyse Douglas
2024
After a tornado kills her family, Harper Close is hurled into a parallel version of her hometown a week before the storm. Saving the people she loves means convincing strangers, dodging danger, and outrunning destiny.
Time Waits - Track Two
by Elyse Douglas
2026
Starting over in Ohio after a divorce, Jennifer Ryan finds wartime relics in her restored house and steps across train tracks into 1943. Falling for Lieutenant Tom Devlin means fighting time itself and the fate already written for him.
Series background & context
The Time Travel books are best thought of as a shared lane rather than one long continuous story. Most of them are standalones. The cast changes, the era changes, and even the way time travel happens changes. What stays consistent is the kind of question the books ask: if you were thrown out of your own life and into another time, what part of yourself would survive, and what would you try to change?
That makes this one of the most flexible corners of Elyse Douglas's catalog. You do not need to commit to a single long arc. You can pick the premise that sounds most interesting and start there. In one book, photographs connect two people across decades, as in Time Change. In another, a camera can send people into the past, as in Time Shutter. Time Stranger throws a woman from wartime London into the future. Time Zone drops a modern pilot into 1942. Time Lost mixes time displacement with a strange light and a science-fiction edge.
The point is not the gadget. It is what time travel does to a life already under stress.
A lot of these protagonists are women on the brink of something, grief, divorce, guilt, danger, loneliness, or a decision they cannot undo. Then the impossible happens. They wake in another year, another country, another set of rules. Suddenly they have to learn how to speak, whom to trust, and whether changing the past will save anyone at all. The books use those shifts well. Social rules, money, technology, and gender expectations all become part of the tension.
The tone moves around within the series label. Some entries are romantic and wistful. Some are heavier on suspense. Some lean further into science fiction or historical danger. But even when the setup is large, the storytelling stays readable and personal. These are not puzzle-box novels. They are built to pull you along with emotion first, and concept second.
You get the past and the present in the same breath.
That is the pleasure of this group of books. If you want a glamorous old Hollywood angle, there is Time With Norma Jeane. If you want historical survival under pressure, there is Time Passage. If you want a storm-tossed Gilded Age romance, there is Time and Tide. If you want a more speculative feel, Time Parallel and Time Lost push further outward. There is no single required reading order here, which makes the series easy to sample. Pick the era or premise that grabs you and go.
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