No Time Like the Present: the Apprentice Time Walkers

“Some moments never end — they just wait to be found.”When sixteen-year-old Addison visits Kelvingrove Museum on a school trip, she isn’t expecting much — just another history lecture, another forgotten exhibit. But inside a sealed railway carriage, something stirs. A watch begins to tick backwards. A brass key glows in her palm. And before she can call for help, Addison and her friends are pulled through time into Carrick Bay, a windswept village caught in the middle of the Second World War — and something far stranger.The villagers speak in half-truths. The church bell rings at the wrong hour. And beneath the chapel floor lies the Book of Moments — a volume that remembers everything that ever was, and everything that still could be. When Addison learns that every reader leaves a mark inside the Book, she realises their arrival is no accident. Time itself has been waiting for them.Guided by Rosie, a girl who seems to remember Addison before they’ve even met, the group must unravel the secret of the Book before the hour strikes 11:04 — the minute when time stands still. But the closer they come to the truth, the more the world begins to fracture: clocks forget their numbers, mirrors lose their reflections, and two pale twins appear wherever light meets shadow.As past and present collapse into each other, Addison faces an impossible choice — close the Book and lose what she loves most, or open it and risk rewriting everything she knows about herself, her friends, and the nature of time itself.No Time Like the Present is a haunting, lyrical time-slip adventure — a story of friendship, loss, and the echoes that connect us across generations.Because every key remembers its lock.And some locks remember you.Fans of V.E. Schwab, Maggie Stiefvater, and The Book Thief will fall in love with this haunting, time-twisting adventure.