family mystery

Meet the Paytons: antique dealers, time travellers, mystery solvers. All in a day's work.

Gideon Payton—eldest twin by sixteen minutes—inherited a unique ensorcellment: he can slip back into the past. Perfect for an antique dealer... especially one who only recently sailed out of London, 1886, and into the strange new world of the 21st century after a shipwreck tore his family apart. The Paytons left their grief and 150 years behind – or so they thought.

Timeless Treasures, their charming antique shop in modern day Australia, is known for finding relics nobody else can and when a desperate client asks them to locate a missing heirloom, Gideon, his twin, Theo, and talented, sassy genealogist Holly Hunter start with its last owner – the fifth and final canonical victim of Jack the Ripper. Time-hopping just turned lethal. But never let it be said that the Paytons turned down a challenge.

Ideal for fans of Diana Gabaldon, Kelley Armstrong, Shawn Inmon, and Jennae Vale.

Timeless Treasures, the Payton family’s prestige antique shop is known for validations and finding rare relics. But when a disaster-memorabilia collector requests authentication of a jewellery piece from the Titanic, the Payton brothers are divided. The seller swears it belonged to his great-great-aunt Emma, a maid on the Titanic who survived, but a descendant of Emma’s employer accuses her of stealing the piece as the ship went down—and demands it back.

Gideon Payton, eldest twin and inheritor of a time travel ensorcellment, can slip himself—and anyone he chooses—back into the past. A handy charm for an antique dealer. His brothers want to find proof; Gideon wants none of the icy fate awaiting Titanic’s maiden voyage.

But will they talk him into joining Emma aboard RMS Titanic in 1912? Time travel has a cost, and this particular crossing might be too higher a price to pay.

Ideal for fans of Diana Gabaldon, Kelley Armstrong, Shawn Inmon, and Jennae Vale.