Time After Time

A Thriller

By: Zoe Cross

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Every mother's worst nightmare. An impossible choice. And then... another chance.

Alison Drake has always put her career first—until the day it costs her everything.

At 3:28 PM on what should have been a simple museum field trip, her eight-year-old son Charlie vanishes into a dark blue sedan. One moment he's beside her. The next, he's gone. And Alison was on her phone, closing a career-making deal, when it happened.

But then she wakes up that morning. Again.

Trapped in a time loop, reliving the same Thursday over and over, Alison has something impossible: a second chance. She can make different choices. Keep Charlie close. Stop him from getting into that car.

But saving him is harder than she imagined. Every choice she makes seems to lead back to the same moment. Every path forward somehow circles back to 3:28 PM and that dark blue sedan.

Then she notices something terrifying: she's starting each day a little later. First just a minute. Then two. Then four. What began as infinite opportunities is collapsing into a countdown. Soon she'll have only hours left. Then minutes. Time itself is running out, and she still doesn't understand why she can't save him.

Because the dark blue sedan isn't the real mystery.

The real mystery is why Charlie keeps getting into that car, no matter what she changes.

From Zoe Cross comes a devastating psychological thriller about a mother's love, the weight of guilt, and the terrible price of the choices we make when we're not paying attention. Perfect for fans of Replay by Ken Grimwood and The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North, Time After Time delivers a twist so powerful, you'll immediately want to read it again.

Content Note: While the narrative explores hope and second chances, readers should be aware it contains emotionally intense material involving the death of a child.