Stealing Time
stradella
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  • Reads 143
  • Votes 14
  • Parts 20
  • Time 57m
stradella
Ongoing, First published Aug 27, 2017
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She stepped out expecting bullets to rip into her.
She stepped forward into the minefield of death.
She stepped towards paradise and the sullen border guard didn't stop her.

For Lisa that night, the Berlin Wall fell with a resounding clang.  

'The genie is well and truly out of the bottle', thought Mikhail Gorbachev as he watched the scenes of jubilant crowds streaming into the West.  

He was right; on 26 December 1991, the Soviet Union itself fell apart.

But what if a new leader of Russia could reverse time?

The trouble is - he can! 

Cameron Brock, a time-travelling investigator, must go back 150 years to stop him. 

In Stealing Time, Douglas Cumpsty delivers a fast-paced thriller moving between the Great Exhibition in Victorian London to 21st Century Russia.  All because of the most famous diamond in the world.
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The Time Gambler's Curse

22 parts Complete

Damian Cole is a high-stakes stock analyst who finds himself in possession of an extraordinary device-a time machine. With visions of wealth beyond imagination, Damian sets off on a daring plan: travel back in time to bet on sports games and invest in future tech giants. The plan is simple, the rewards immense, and soon, his present-day bank account swells with unimaginable riches. But greed drives him deeper. Damian starts taking riskier jumps, plotting to buy into companies like Apple and Google before they even exist. He's on top of the world-until he lands himself in 1929, just days before the Great Crash. In the frenzy of Wall Street, his device malfunctions. Now, stranded without a way back to his own time, he finds himself swindled in a bad trade and accused of being a "wizard" from the future. As he scrambles to survive in pre-WWII America, Damian discovers he's not the only one trapped in the past. Sinister forces are at play, hunting those who tamper with time and ensuring they can never return. Each desperate move to regain his fortune only leads him further into a web of deception, danger, and a curse he cannot escape. Will Damian uncover the secret that binds him to the past, or will he become another lost soul in the annals of time? "The Time Gambler's Curse" is a riveting tale of ambition, betrayal, and the relentless pull of fate. Damian gambled with time-and now, time is gambling with him.

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