The Traveler Series

Future Imperfect is the seventh book in The Traveler Series, the penultimate installment in the story that began in Variation Seven and continued in Strange Times, Living in the Future, Dying in the Past, Travelers' Tales, and Past and Future Tense. Travelers are the men and women who possess timebands -- cybernetic devices that allow the wearer to travel in time and change history. There are only twelve timebands and twelve Travelers, and those individuals have divided themselves into two rival factions, each with a different view of what the destiny of mankind should be. One group is attempting to steer humanity toward a bright future where it colonizes the stars, and the other is determined to work toward the extinction of the human race before it can infest the galaxy like spreading plague. One of these Travelers is Ruthie Terwilliger, who is trying to rebuild her team after it has suffered a devastating tragedy. As she and her team struggle to resume its vital mission, they must deal with the reality that history is now following the sequence of events known as Variation Seven, a timeline that will inexorably lead humanity to its own extinction. Ruthie, her husband Miles, and the other Travelers must use the history-warping abilities of their timebands to steer the fate of the Earth away from a nightmarish destiny. Meanwhile, Ruthie's daughter from the future, Miranda, has her own challenges to contend against. Now split into two distinct individuals, one Miranda attempts to rescue her husband William from the evil syndicate known as the Family, while the other makes a cruel bargain with an old enemy after being betrayed by someone she loves. Unknown to Ruthie, former friends are secretly conspiring against her. In order to save her friends, family, and all of history, Ruthie must make an impossible choice, and perhaps even make the ultimate sacrifice. Future Imperfect sets the stage for the last installment in the Traveler Series, Final Variation. Future Imperfect is the seventh book from author Mike Manolakes in the Traveler Series, the story of Ruthie, her friends and foes, and the alternate histories they create. The Traveler Series will take readers on a trip through worlds that never were, timelines where history has followed a drastically different course. For readers who enjoy exploring the various “what ifs” of history, Travelers' Tales and the Traveler Series will provide unexpected twists and turns as Ruthie discovers the unexpected potential in the power that the timeband gives her.

Past and Future Tense is the sixth book in The Traveler Series, which began with Variation Seven and continued in Strange Times, Living in the Future, Dying in the Past, and Travelers' Tales. Travelers are the men and women who possess timebands -- cybernetic devices that allow the wearer to travel in time and change history. There are only twelve timebands and twelve Travelers, and those individuals have divided themselves into two rival factions, each with a different view of what the destiny of mankind should be. One group is attempting to steer humanity toward a bright future where it colonizes the stars, and the other is determined to work toward the extinction of the human race before it can infest the galaxy like spreading plague. One of these Travelers is Ruthie Terwilliger, who, despite possessing time-traveling powers beyond her understanding, is trying to create a normal life for herself, her husband Miles, and her young daughter Miranda. But that comfortable life is shattered when all of history is rewritten in a cataclysmic reality wave, and Ruthie and her team find themselves in the nightmarish ruins of a post-apocalyptic city, hunted by roving bands of cannibals. As Ruthie struggles to survive in the vastly altered reality, her story is intertwined with two other tales, one from the past, the other from the future. The life story of Caesar, leader of the Travelers, is revealed. The greatest Traveler of all time, Caesar manipulated numerous historical events, from the Spanish Armada to Pearl Harbor to the Kennedy assassination. Betrayed by his best friend and partner, Caesar assembled a new team of Travelers to set history back on the correct path to insure mankind's glorious destiny. But far in the future, a young woman fights a battle against a terrible enemy known only as the Family. She is Miranda, Ruthie's daughter grown to adulthood, and she struggles to escape captivity and thwart their evil plans. Her only hope is to travel back into the past and find her mother before it's too late. Past and Future Tense is the sixth book from author Mike Manolakes in the Traveler Series, the story of Ruthie, her friends and foes, and the alternate histories they create. The Traveler Series will take readers on a trip through worlds that never were, timelines where history has followed a drastically different course. For readers who enjoy exploring the various “what ifs” of history, Travelers' Tales and the Traveler Series will provide unexpected twists and turns as Ruthie discovers the unexpected potential in the power that the timeband gives her.

Final Variation is the eighth book in The Traveler Series, the final installment in the story that began in Variation Seven and continued in Strange Times, Living in the Future, Dying in the Past, Travelers' Tales, Past and Future Tense, and Future Imperfect. Travelers are the men and women who possess timebands -- cybernetic devices that allow the wearer to travel in time and change history. There are only twelve timebands and twelve Travelers, and those individuals have divided themselves into two rival factions, each with a different view of what the destiny of mankind should be. One group is attempting to steer humanity toward a bright future where it colonizes the stars, and the other is determined to work toward the extinction of the human race before it can infest the galaxy like spreading plague. After the team has been shattered by horrible tragedy, the Travelers must come together to rescue one of their own from captivity in the far future. The Family, the descendants of Ruthie and Miles Terwilliger who are all born with the ability to manipulate time itself, threatens to extend its domination of humanity throughout all eras, both past and future. The team must accept the help of old adversaries in order to defeat this unstoppable foe. Meanwhile, a new threat appears. The Scion, a genetic experiment gone wrong, has decided to begin hunting Travelers, and he succeeds in abducting one of the team. The Travelers must find a way to subdue a brutal killer whose ability to control time far exceeds their own. During the time of their greatest despair, the Travelers discover that impossible hope still exists, as each of them finds that their courage and loyalty is tested as never before. Old enemies become new allies, but the ultimate triumph comes at a terrifyingly high price. Final Variation is the eighth book from author Mike Manolakes in the Traveler Series, the story of Ruthie Terwilliger, her friends and foes, and the alternate histories they create. The Traveler Series will take readers on a trip through worlds that never were, timelines where history has followed a drastically different course. For readers who enjoy exploring the various “what ifs” of history, Final Variation and the Traveler Series will provide unexpected twists and turns as Ruthie discovers the unexpected potential in the power that the timeband gives her.

There are twelve timebands in the universe. Each timeband is a cybernetic device that gives the wearer the ability to command time. With a timeband, you can travel to the past or the future, speed time up, slow it down, or cause time to stop entirely. You have the ability to change history and create worlds that never were, both awe-inspiring and frightening. You can see the bleak destiny humanity is heading toward, or steer it toward a bright, glorious future. Ruthie McDonald was working in a Chicago diner on the day the bomb exploded. She had no idea what would happen when she took the timeband off the arm of the dead man and fastened it to her own arm. But that moment changed her life forever. Her world vanished, and a darker, scarier one took its place. For better or worse, she was now a time traveler, a member of a secret elite team responsible for the safety of the entire timeline of the world’s history. In the team’s hidden base, far back in the distant past, Ruthie’s training with the timeband begins. The training is difficult, for a stray thought can send her to the dangers of another century. But with the help of her new friend, Miles Terwilliger, a veteran of the Confederate Air Force in a timeline that ceased to exist, Ruthie masters the timeband and becomes a full-fledged member of the team. Now she can help in its mission, which is to guide the human race toward the bright future called Variation Seven. But there are others out there who also wear timebands. Followers of a mysterious figure called Caesar, their goal is to prevent Variation Seven at all costs — and Ruthie soon finds herself caught between the two rival groups, not knowing whom to trust, and whom to fear. Variation Seven is the first book from author Mike Manolakes in the Traveler Series, the story of Ruthie, her friends and foes, and the alternate histories they create. The Traveler Series will take readers on a trip through worlds that never were: where the Nazi flag flies over a totalitarian America, or where street gangs battle over the remains of a bombed, devastated Chicago. For readers who enjoy exploring the various “what ifs” of history, Variation Seven and the Traveler Series will provide unexpected twists and turns as Ruthie discovers the unexpected potential in the power that the timeband gives her.

Strange Times is the sequel to Variation Seven, the book that began The Traveler Series. Travelers are the men and women who possess timebands -- cybernetic devices that allow the wearer to travel in time and change history. There are only twelve timebands and twelve Travelers, and those individuals have divided themselves into two rival factions, each with a different view of what the destiny of mankind should be. One group is attempting to steer humanity toward a bright future where it colonizes the stars, and the other is determined to work toward the extinction of the human race before it can infest the galaxy like spreading plague. Ruthie Terwilliger, who acquired a timeband in Variation Seven, is now happily married to her teammate Miles, and Strange Times begins with them aboard a futuristic space plane, making a suborbital flight from the South Pacific to a planned second honeymoon in New York City. But the unexpected happens -- they are caught in a reality wave, a radical restructuring of the timeline caused by another Traveler's interference in the past. Suddenly reality has been rewritten, and now space planes have never been invented. The craft Ruthie and Miles had been traveling in dissolves around them, and the two Travelers are falling without parachutes through the upper atmosphere like meteors. They survive to discover a world unlike the one they knew before, one where the United States of America never came into existence. On a battlefield in Pennsylvania in a war between two armies unfamiliar to them, Miles is shot and seriously wounded. What's worse, the assailant seems to be a new Traveler, someone unknown to them. Ruthie must find help to save her husband's life, and help comes from a most unexpected source -- a mysterious woman in white, someone who can apparently travel in time without the use of a timeband. As Ruthie tries to unravel these various mysteries, she meets old enemies -- Sarah Rickert and her mad husband Carlos Ybarra -- as well as famous figures from American history, including Benjamin Franklin and George Washington. It takes all of Ruthie's courage and ingenuity to set things right at last, as well as discover the hidden potential in her that will have huge implications for her future. Strange Times is the second book from author Mike Manolakes in the Traveler Series, the story of Ruthie, her friends and foes, and the alternate histories they create. The Traveler Series will take readers on a trip through worlds that never were: where mercenary armies clash on unknown battlefields of the past, or a distant future where the miracles of advanced technology are reserved for only the elite few. For readers who enjoy exploring the various “what ifs” of history, Strange Times and the Traveler Series will provide unexpected twists and turns as Ruthie discovers the unexpected potential in the power that the timeband gives her.

Living in the Future is the third book in The Traveler Series, which began with Variation Seven and continued in Strange Times. Travelers are the men and women who possess timebands -- cybernetic devices that allow the wearer to travel in time and change history. There are only twelve timebands and twelve Travelers, and those individuals have divided themselves into two rival factions, each with a different view of what the destiny of mankind should be. One group is attempting to steer humanity toward a bright future where it colonizes the stars, and the other is determined to work toward the extinction of the human race before it can infest the galaxy like spreading plague. Two of these Travelers, Ruthie and Miles Terwilliger, have made a surprising discovery: their young daughter Miranda can also travel through time, but she can do it without a timeband. Since Miranda is still only a toddler, her parents worry about how they will be ever be able to find her if she wanders off into another century. But they soon have a more urgent dilemma to solve. Their adversary Sarah Rickert has rewritten the outcome of the American Civil War. Abraham Lincoln has been banished from the White House, and General George McClellan has installed himself as dictator of the United States. This sets off a reality wave, unmaking the history of all the succeeding centuries and transforming the world that Ruthie and Miles knew into an unrecognizable horror. The team of Travelers, led by their wise mentor Caesar, goes into action to undo what Sarah has wrought. But unknown to them, one of their own members has gone rogue, and the reality wave he seeks to unleash will cause even greater havoc to the timeline of history. Ruthie and her friends must use the astonishing power of the timebands to repair the cracks in history and steer humanity away from the dark future known as Variation Seven. Living in the Future is the third book from author Mike Manolakes in the Traveler Series, the story of Ruthie, her friends and foes, and the alternate histories they create. The Traveler Series will take readers on a trip through worlds that never were: a United States corrupted by an oppressive military dictatorship, or a North America where armies of Native Americans sweep the British colonies from the continent. For readers who enjoy exploring the various “what ifs” of history, Living in the Future and the Traveler Series will provide unexpected twists and turns as Ruthie discovers the unexpected potential in the power that the timeband gives her.

Travelers' Tales is the fifth book in The Traveler Series, which began with Variation Seven and continued in Strange Times, Living in the Future, and Dying in the Past. Travelers are the men and women who possess timebands -- cybernetic devices that allow the wearer to travel in time and change history. There are only twelve timebands and twelve Travelers, and those individuals have divided themselves into two rival factions, each with a different view of what the destiny of mankind should be. One group is attempting to steer humanity toward a bright future where it colonizes the stars, and the other is determined to work toward the extinction of the human race before it can infest the galaxy like spreading plague. One of these Travelers is Ruthie Terwilliger, who, despite possessing time-traveling powers beyond her understanding, is trying to create a normal life for herself, her husband Miles, and her young daughter Miranda. But she awakens one night to find herself many centuries in the future, the guest of a secret society known as the Family. As she learns the incredible secret behind the Family, she wonders if this is only a dream -- or a terrible nightmare waiting to come true? Meanwhile, her team is searching for a boy lost somewhere in time. William Han, the only son of Ruthie's teammate Denise, has been hidden away in another century by Sarah Rickert. The team succeeds in finding him -- but is he an unusual infant in a twenty-first century orphanage, or a full-grown assassin in 1914, bent on changing the history of World War One? And what is his connection to Simon and Rebecca, the evil twins still scheming to kill Ruthie and her friends? Travelers' Tales is the fifth book from author Mike Manolakes in the Traveler Series, the story of Ruthie, her friends and foes, and the alternate histories they create. The Traveler Series will take readers on a trip through worlds that never were, timelines where history has followed a drastically different course. For readers who enjoy exploring the various “what ifs” of history, Travelers' Tales and the Traveler Series will provide unexpected twists and turns as Ruthie discovers the unexpected potential in the power that the timeband gives her.

Dying in the Past is the fourth book in The Traveler Series, which began with Variation Seven and continued in Strange Times and Living in the Future. Travelers are the men and women who possess timebands -- cybernetic devices that allow the wearer to travel in time and change history. There are only twelve timebands and twelve Travelers, and those individuals have divided themselves into two rival factions, each with a different view of what the destiny of mankind should be. One group is attempting to steer humanity toward a bright future where it colonizes the stars, and the other is determined to work toward the extinction of the human race before it can infest the galaxy like spreading plague. A desperate act by a rogue time traveler has rewritten the history of North America, and now Ruthie Terwilliger and her fellow Travelers find themselves in a vastly different America, a land where Native American culture still dominates, and most traces of British influence have been wiped away. Ruthie finds herself in an uneasy alliance with her worst enemy, Sarah Rickert, as she tries to locate her scattered teammates and find her way through a strange and altered nation. But she and her husband Miles have become the targets of two unknown Travelers, a pair of psychopathic twins want their timebands and will kill to get them. Dying in the Past is the fourth book from author Mike Manolakes in the Traveler Series, the story of Ruthie, her friends and foes, and the alternate histories they create. The Traveler Series will take readers on a trip through worlds that never were: a modern industrialized America where Native American culture remained dominant, or a secret city of religious cultists built on the ruins of Manhattan. For readers who enjoy exploring the various “what ifs” of history, Dying in the Past and the Traveler Series will provide unexpected twists and turns as Ruthie discovers the unexpected potential in the power that the timeband gives her.