If the past catches up with you, time travel can be murder . . .

London, the present day: commercial time travel is a reality.

Tempus Tours – owned by controversial tech entrepreneur Inigo Frank – offers the wealthy a chance to relive history.

Harry Allen, esteemed property mogul, is celebrating his birthday by taking a few guests, including his troubled son Luke, and Luke’s fiancé Sasha, back to the London Blitz in March 1941. They will dine in luxury at the Café de Paris before witnessing the terrifying spectacle of the city’s aerial bombardment.

But things go catastrophically wrong when Luke stumbles and injures himself in the smoky darkness.

Back in the present day, all hell breaks loose as the team realise that Sasha remains missing in 1941. As Sasha’s actions begin to twist history, journalist Victoria Hunt, stationed at Tempus HQ, watches her present reality subtly, then devastatingly shift.

Can Victoria stop the ripple effect before she loses everything – and everyone – she holds dear?

A mesmerizing time-hopping mystery around the question: what if time travel is possible, but only for the uber-rich? As troubles mount and timelines begin to fray, Phoebe comes to realize that her own troubled past is somehow entwined with the missing time traveler – but how? Time to Burn offers twists and turns galore, a true delight to the last page! -- Kate Quinn, author of The Astral Library
Absolutely thrilling. Mind bending and totally immersive. It takes the idea of time travel to new and exciting heights. Ingenious! -- John Marrs, author of The Family Experiment
Ellery Lloyd is one of my favourite writers. Time to Burn is a riveting time traveler thriller packed with rollicking action and epic imagination - and a smart, satirical heart -- Abigail Dean, author of Girl A

Ellery Lloyd is the pseudonym for London-based husband-and-wife writing team Collette Lyons and Paul Vlitos. Collette is a journalist and editor, former features editor at Stylist, content director of ELLE UK and editorial director at Soho House. She has written for The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, and The Sunday Times, as well as two travel books. Paul is the author of two previous novels, Welcome to the Working Week and Every Day Is Like Sunday. He is the programme director for English literature with creative writing at the University of Surrey.