The Hourmaker (YA Time Travel) (The Alpha Omega Series Book 1)

Book One of an all new epic series from USA TODAY Bestselling Author Conner Kressley!

Nine months ago, Winston Cobb's dreams of a basketball scholaship were crushed along with much of his ankle when a late night raver turned into a fiery car crash. To make matters worse, no one believed him when he talked about the shadowy figure in the middle of the road or the strangely pretty girl who pulled him out of the wreckage. Guess having liquor on your breath makes you a less than reliable witness all of a sudden.Now, having been banished from his fairweather cool clique, Winston's counting down the days until he graduates and he can walk out of that school forever: or at least hobble, depending on how physical therapy goes. When the pretty girl from the night of accident shows up at school though, Winston goes all out to prove that she was there, that he's not crazy, and that what happened that night was more than just a drunken mistake.

When he finds out that the girl (along with one of his childhood best friends) is really a time traveler, Winston is transported to The Sands at Alpha-Omega; a boarding school for future (or past/present; depending on your point of origin) time travelers. There he's told that an artifact found by time scavangers has ID'ed him as the person who will one day be responsible for taking down the Hood; the most mysterious and dangerous terrorist in the entire timestream-bum leg and all. What follows is a twisty era-bending tale where Winston learns (among other things) what really happened to Amelia Earhart, why the Big Bang wasn't as big or 'bangish' as you might believe, why it's never a good idea to take down a sabretooth tiger with a shotgun and, most importanly, why the past isn't always worth revisting.