Crossed Timelines is the second book in a new series, Timeband Origins, that continues the story begun in The Traveler Saga. Twelve extraordinary individuals, led by Ruthie Terwilliger, possess timebands, mysterious artifacts that allow them to travel through time. Together they have safeguarded the orderly progression of history and kept humanity on a path toward a bright future among the stars. The timebands allow the wearers to literally rewrite history -- yet the origin of these fantastic devices was once a mystery.

But recently, Ruthie and her team discovered the true origin of their timebands -- they were the creation of a woman named Eudoxia Vokos, a member of the Council of Twelve that ruled most of the Earth in a very different timeline. In this timeline, Alexander the Great did not die young, and the globe-spanning empire he created lasted for millennia, leading to a present era much different than the time-period that Ruthie knew. After discovering she shared an unusual psychic link with Eudoxia, Ruthie returned to her own timeline, but in the Alexandrian timeline, Eudoxia was believed to be dead, her timebands stolen from her.

Now, Ruthie and Eudoxia reunite and begin the fight to regain control of the twelve timebands. Along the way, they recruit old and new friends and face old and new adversaries. Intertwined with the story are the dictated memoirs of Ruthie's husband, Miles Terwilliger, as he recounts his life in a Confederate States at war, for the second time, with the North, and how he became a Traveler.

In the Timeband Origins series, Ruthie and her time-traveling friends will meet new allies and new enemies -- and at least one old enemy, thought to be forever vanquished, will reappear. For fans of alternate history, a startling alternate present is explored, one which diverged from our history long before the modern era. Crossed Timeslines continues a series with the same character-driven adventure and suspense that readers of The Traveler Saga have come to expect. Following Crossed Timelines, Timeband Origins will continue with Roads Not Taken, coming soon.