Thunder Mountain Series

The Edwards Mansion A Thunder Mountain Novel Sherri Edwards only wanted to refurbish an abandoned old mansion that carried her family name. Her goal: To bring the mansion back to original glory. But the ghost of the original owner kept chasing away all workers. About to give up, two friends suggest she go with them into the past, to see the mansion, meet the original owner, and figure out why he killed himself. The fourth standalone novel in the popular Thunder Mountain series. “Thunder Mountain by Dean Wesley Smith is one of those reads that defies genre classification. Take some romance, throw in a little bit of historical fiction and add a dash of time travel and science fiction and you have the basis for this interesting story. … The premise for Thunder Mountain is intriguing and will appeal to fans of both historical and science fiction. This is an easy, light read, and I am interested in revisiting these characters on their future adventures.” —Fresh Fiction “The romance between Dawn and Madison is warm and primarily private. The time travel is creative and the history detail is rich and engaging. This story and reading pace moves along quickly. This is an entertaining story and I recommend it to readers who enjoy a fun time travel to the old west with romantic element.” —Martha’s Bookshelf on Thunder Mountain

Warm Springs A Thunder Mountain Novel Belle returns to her old hometown, looking for clues as to what happened to her great-great-grandmother a hundred years in the past.  Zane, on a secret mission into the past, never expects to meet the woman of his dreams. A complex time travel novel that explores alternate realities, a future no one wants to face, and sets the Thunder Mountain universe going into the future. The sixth standalone novel in the popular Thunder Mountain series. “Thunder Mountain by Dean Wesley Smith is one of those reads that defies genre classification. Take some romance, throw in a little bit of historical fiction and add a dash of time travel and science fiction and you have the basis for this interesting story. … The premise for Thunder Mountain is intriguing and will appeal to fans of both historical and science fiction. This is an easy, light read, and I am interested in revisiting these characters on their future adventures.” —Fresh Fiction “The romance between Dawn and Madison is warm and primarily private. The time travel is creative and the history detail is rich and engaging. This story and reading pace moves along quickly. This is an entertaining story and I recommend it to readers who enjoy a fun time travel to the old west with romantic element.” —Martha’s Bookshelf on Thunder Mountain

USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith wrote for decades about a jukebox that took a listener back to the memory attached to a song. The Jukebox Series consists of more than twenty short stories and gathered numbers of award nominations and movie options. Then in 2012, Dean started work on the Thunder Mountain series of novels, starting with the novel Thunder Mountain. Time travel novels set partially in the Old West. Now, finally, in Melody Ridge, he combines the two worlds and reveals the origin of the jukebox for the first time. Find out what happens if Stout from the Garden Lounge finally meets the inventors of the time-traveling jukebox—because the past might just change his future. “Melody Ridge is the novel I’ve been waiting for. I loved it.” —Bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch “Thunder Mountain by Dean Wesley Smith is one of those reads that defies genre classification. Take some romance, throw in a little bit of historical fiction and add a dash of time travel and science fiction and you have the basis for this interesting story. … The premise for Thunder Mountain is intriguing and will appeal to fans of both historical and science fiction. This is an easy, light read, and I am interested in revisiting these characters on their future adventures.” —Fresh Fiction

Monumental Summit USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith returns to his Thunder Mountain universe with Monumental Summit, a science fiction novel of the new times in the Old West. Bonnie and Duster Kendal, two of the world's great mathematicians, hire historical interior designer April Buckley and architect Ryan Knott to design and furnish a huge lodge to the year 1900 standards. Only problem: The lodge can't be built. It can't exist. Yet, somehow it does because they've built it before. "Thunder Mountain by Dean Wesley Smith is one of those reads that defies genre classification. Take some romance, throw in a little bit of historical fiction and add a dash of time travel and science fiction and you have the basis for this interesting story. … The premise for Thunder Mountain is intriguing and will appeal to fans of both historical and science fiction. This is an easy, light read, and I am interested in revisiting these characters on their future adventures." —Fresh Fiction "The romance between Dawn and Madison is warm and primarily private. The time travel is creative and the history detail is rich and engaging. This story and reading pace moves along quickly. This is an entertaining story and I recommend it to readers who enjoy a fun time travel to the old west with romantic element." —Martha's Bookshelf on Thunder Mountain

Lake Roosevelt A Thunder Mountain Novel In a small diner on the Oregon Coast, Kelli Rae meets a handsome man named Jesse Parks. Turns out she had seen him in a picture taken in an old mining town in Idaho over a hundred years before. And even worse, he had been following her. A time-travel adventure in the popular Thunder Mountain series that promises to change everything about the series. The fifth standalone novel in the popular Thunder Mountain series. “Thunder Mountain by Dean Wesley Smith is one of those reads that defies genre classification. Take some romance, throw in a little bit of historical fiction and add a dash of time travel and science fiction and you have the basis for this interesting story. … The premise for Thunder Mountain is intriguing and will appeal to fans of both historical and science fiction. This is an easy, light read, and I am interested in revisiting these characters on their future adventures.” —Fresh Fiction “The romance between Dawn and Madison is warm and primarily private. The time travel is creative and the history detail is rich and engaging. This story and reading pace moves along quickly. This is an entertaining story and I recommend it to readers who enjoy a fun time travel to the old west with romantic element.” —Martha’s Bookshelf on Thunder Mountain

Tombstone Dan loved his life in the Old West. He loved building a wonderful home in a hidden canyon. Over a hundred years later, known as one of the best forensic historians in the business, Margaret “Maggie” Lund finds herself faced with the impossible task of discovering if Tombstone Dan really existed. Two lives a hundred years apart twisting through history together. Written with attention to the real details of the Old West, Tombstone Canyon adds another riveting tale into the Thunder Mountain series of adventures.

Jenny Lind, a traveler from the institute, found a hidden hot springs back in 1902 near the boomtown of Roosevelt. In 2018, traveler Kathryn "Flag" Sinclair found an article that Jenny wrote for a local paper in 1903 about the hidden hot springs. And went in search of the hot springs. Neither woman knew the other, or knew the other was a traveler from the institute back in time. What happens next spans more than a century and might prove one of the more twisted Thunder Mountain adventures yet.

Time traveler and historian Spaulding Johns loved watching the sunrise on Rainbow Peak from his cabin in a valley in the Idaho Wilderness. He stayed one more day just to watch the sunrise one last time before leaving for the harsh winter. That decision saved Faith Pullman's life. A Thunder Mountain short story about the dangers of the wilderness and smart humans' ability to overcome those dangers.

Dita Jean Harris believed that long-haired Henry Nye died under the mudslide that submerged the mining boomtown of Roosevelt. Idaho in 1909. But common knowledge held that no one died. She wanted to prove that happened and go back over a hundred years and rescue him in an alternate timeline. But rescue him for what future?

An innovative series that defies genre classification, USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith's Thunder Mountain Series offers a compelling mix of science fiction, time travel, historical fiction set in the old west, and even a dash of romance. This starter bundle includes the first three books in the series: Thunder Mountain, Monumental Summit, and Avalanche Creek. Thunder Mountain USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith weaves a science fiction tale of love and survival of two modern professors dealing with the past. Offered a free trip into a remote Idaho wilderness that she loves and studies, Professor Dawn Edwards can't refuse. On the trip she meets Professor Madison Rogers, and they fall for each other before they even reach their destination. But living in the Old West proves to be a brutal task. Somehow, Dawn must survive to rescue herself, her friends, and the man she loves. A science fiction novel of new times in the Old West. Monumental Summit USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith returns to his Thunder Mountain universe with Monumental Summit, a science fiction novel of the new times in the Old West. Bonnie and Duster Kendal, two of the world's great mathematicians, hire historical interior designer April Buckley and architect Ryan Knott to design and furnish a huge lodge to the year 1900 standards. Only problem: The lodge can't be built. It can't exist. Yet, somehow it does because they've built it before. Avalanche Creek Returning to the time travel western world of Thunder Mountain, USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith weaves his most complex story to date. In one timeline, to help with an advanced math problem, Bonnie and Duster Kendal hire Brice Lincoln. In a second timeline, to help with an advanced math problem, Bonnie and Duster Kendal hire Dixie Smith. When Brice and Dixie finally meet in the past, instant attraction. And instant problems. A time travel western that stretches across timelines from the Idaho Wilderness to an old Boise hotel with a very special room. "Thunder Mountain by Dean Wesley Smith is one of those reads that defies genre classification. Take some romance, throw in a little bit of historical fiction and add a dash of time travel and science fiction and you have the basis for this interesting story. … The premise for Thunder Mountain is intriguing and will appeal to fans of both historical and science fiction. This is an easy, light read, and I am interested in revisiting these characters on their future adventures." —Fresh Fiction "The romance between Dawn and Madison is warm and primarily private. The time travel is creative and the history detail is rich and engaging. This story and reading pace moves along quickly. This is an entertaining story and I recommend it to readers who enjoy a fun time travel to the old west with romantic element." —Martha's Bookshelf on Thunder Mountain

May: 1902. Megan Taber bakes in the fancy new Idanha Hotel in downtown Boise. Her rolls and pastries and pies bring in patrons from all around the area. Widowed from her husband five years before, her entire life focuses on her baking. And she loves it. She considers baking her art. Joe Vaughn, a scholar, eats breakfast every day at the Idanha Hotel dining room because of Megan Taber’s baking. A story of two people, tossed together by events and great food.

Concord Coaches hold a mythical place in the history of the Old West. Colfax Shaw and Anna Taber, born a hundred years apart, find a compatible interest in one old Concord. Anna studies the math of situations and timelines while Colfax focuses on the history of it all. But both the math and the history, normally solid and dependable for both Anna and Colfax, suddenly become erratic. All because of a Concord stagecoach. Another exciting novel in the Thunder Mountain series.

Duster Kendal found a newly built cabin along a trail just south of the old mining town of Roosevelt, Idaho. But the cabin never existed before in 1905. The cabin should not exist. Period. Another time-travel puzzle in the acclaimed Thunder Mountain series.

Carson Clark, a historian and traveler from the future, rides upon two guns tossed on a trail in the remote area of Central Idaho. No reason for them to be there except as a trap, and that made no sense. But the real reason those guns filled the trail turned into a meet-cute like no other in romance.

Sage Green accidently finds in a satellite photo the ruins of an old log cabin and a stable in a high mountain valley in the Central Idaho wilderness. Nothing unusual except no entrance exists into that valley. Mike Hawthorne, on some of his many trips into the past, used to camp and prospect right below that valley without knowing it was there. With Mike Hawthorne, Sage Green must travel back to find out how to get into that valley, why that cabin and stable exist, and who built them.

In a very secluded canyon in 1903, deep in the Idaho mountains, historical researchers from the present discover a very tragic secret. And they also find each other.

Dora Vannoy vanished without a trace in July 1905. Not the Dora Vannoy who found a journal in 2024, but a long-lost ancestor. The 2024 Dora decides to find out what happened to her namesake. The 2024 Dora travels into the past of other timelines from the Historical Institute. What she finds turns out worse than she expected. And very sad when what happened in the past makes no difference at all.

Jennifer Betsy Stevens Blue, a traveler from the Historical Institute in the future, 2022 to be precise, watches a man try to cross a run-off swollen creek and not make it. Rescuing him from the biting cold waters proves to be very interesting. And opens up more secrets than she might imagine. A gripping Thunder Mountain story that adds in yet another detail about the possible future of all humanity that can only be saved from the past.

She raised a child when on a trip into the past of another timeline. Seemingly a great child with lots of accomplishments. She raised him in an infinite number of timelines. But what happens when the child turns into a monster? In an infinite number of timelines? How do you ever get over that?

Stout used to own the Garden Lounge where the time-traveling jukebox sat. He sold the Garden to live with his love, Jenny. Now Jenny’s cancer diagnosis gives her only five months to live. Bonnie and Duster, the original owners of the jukebox, will not stand for that diagnosis. A Thunder Mountain story of love and death and living?

In the Thunder Mountain story "Lost Canyon," published in Smith's Monthly #62, two travelers meet in a lost canyon and fall in love. Only problem with the canyon; five dead bodies in a cave. In this story, the two travelers get back together and find out who the bodies belong to. You do not have to have read the first story to enjoy this one.

Duster Kendal lost an Idaho mining town called Grapevine Springs. In 2020 he knew the town, spent time there. In 1901 the valley sat empty. The town never existed. Not possible. Duster needed to get back to the year 2020 to solve the mystery of the lost mining town. A standalone story that introduces a new mining town and new characters into the Thunder Mountain world of westerns and time travel.

Andy Neilson noticed the time traveler, Terri Allen, one fine day in the caverns under the Institute. And seems she noticed him as well. But they missed talking. And connecting through all of time turns out to be a tough matter. Especially when a trip into the past only takes just over two minutes. A story of two people, time travelers, finding the other against all odds.

Time traveler Jessie Fallon worked on researching the thirteen people buried in the most remote cemetery in the lower forty-eight states. But for all the years in the past, she could not figure out who the thirteenth body might be. What she ended up finding certainly led to an outcome she could never have suspected.