TimeDogz Books

The past is your playground. Do whatever you wish there. And we do mean… anything… Because no matter how foul your mess, the Time Dogz will always clean it up. At least, that’s what they tell you. But is it true? How should I know? I’m Stiletto Caldwell. Dragged back from death on a battlefield in the distant past, I’m the newest recruit to the Time Dogz. Being sent to 1930s Germany, and with a team lead I’m more than a little in love with, sounded exciting at the time, but it caused me more problems than being shot and beaten to a pulp. It brought me deadly enemies. Now those enemies are taking their revenge. I’m in Belgium, 1848, to pick up a guy in a big hat called Karl Marx. It should be a simple job, but I'm being framed for historical murder. And that’s when they inform me that the Time Dogz have a special reward for failure. Death.

Humanity is defeated. The Earth conquered. It is the end of history. Which is kind of surprising because none of that used to be in the history books. It seems the past can be changed, after all. The Time Dogz send a crack team, featuring yours truly, to 2362. Our mission is to fix history and save the human race. Just one problem: an alien android in the form of a beautiful Flemish girl programed to seduce me. You’d think she’d be easy to resist, but those alien tech bros know what they’re about. And so does she. It’s the Battle of Earth, all right. But for all the alien starships raining down hellfire upon the Kalifornia Konurbation, the missile attacks on sleepy English airbases, and the space combat at Saturn Gate, the real battlefield – the place where the fate of humanity will be decided – is my heart. Let’s face it. The human race is doomed! ––— A note on reading books out of sequence. Each novel in the TimeDogz series presents a different adventure for Stiletto and his companions to survive. We get to enjoy time travel shenanigans in specific time periods, each lending a distinct flavor to that book. The situation and the relationships between key characters build as the books progress, but you can read them in any order. If you're familiar with the Harry Dresden books from Jim Butcher, it works like that. Dip in at any point, and if you like what you read, best continue in sequence starting with the first novel. I've taken particular care to make that work with this series, because some readers will want to go straight into a novel that piques their interest. For example, if you're intrigued by a novel where history changes because of events at a KISS concert in the 80s, then start with book3 (Time Travel in Rock: 1984). If you want time travel adventure in Ancient Egypt or the Neolithic, start with book 4 (The Year of the Ox – or you can when I've finished writing it) . You get the picture.

“Ip-swich! Can you hear me?” I’ve been demoted along with my new companion to the mysterious Cleaners. (Said companion’s name is Zuri ‘Zudge’ Jaiden and she’s short, savvy, and subversive – I like her). Sent on a training mission to Ipswich, England in 1984, our mission has been to foil time assassins hired to kill the bass player of a rock group called Kiss. That isn’t the problem. “Ip-swich! It’s time…” With Time Dogz Inc. under attack from its competitors, the Cleaners are now using the ‘Kill Box’ to make our jumps, an experimental time machine discarded years ago because of its unfortunate habit of making its passengers disappear. Where they go, nobody knows. That’s not the problem, either. Not the immediate one, at any rate, because there are a stack of other things waiting to kill me first. “Time to… Lick! It! Uuuuuuup!” At the Kiss concert in 1984, where a million decibels of pure rock ‘n’ roll pulses through my spine, the licking up is nothing to do with the beer spillage in the theater – though that is plentiful. This is the stage banter of the frontman, Paul Stanley. Simmons the bassist is much worse, being positively infectious with the inuendoes. Hang around too long and you start talking like them. Zudge and I certainly have. We can’t help it. That’s not the problem either. Well, maybe a little bit. The purpose of the Cleaners is to mop up other people’s time messes. Unfortunately, they’ve acquired a new recruit with a psychological condition that makes him intolerant of being told what to do. And that difficult individual might have just disobeyed his orders a little bit at the Kiss concert. Consequently, my friends and lovers are now disappearing. Gone. Ripped from the timeline along with the techs I need to operate the time machines to fix my mess. I know I’ve really screwed up this time because weird stuff has started appearing in the late 20th century: nuclear war, norm-eating mutants, and a cult rock star writing a concept album about yours truly. Ever since I was recruited into the Time Dogz, I’ve been blamed for every little thing. This time they’re finally right. It really is all my fault. And that is the problem, but only because I’ve let myself care for people far more than is good for me. And like an oaf in a fool’s hat, I will risk everything to save them. Together with my little spitfire, Zudge, an all-American rock goddess, and a decrepit KGB spymaster, I’m off on a desperate mission to the 1970s to save history, headed behind the Iron Curtain for the English People’s Democratic Republic. Don’t let those Cold War spy thrillers fool you. It’s tough there, back in the EPDR. I already know that not everyone’s going to come back home, and my mistake is going to cost me dearly in ways I could never have imagined. ––— A note on reading books out of sequence. Each novel in the TimeDogz series presents a different adventure for Stiletto and his companions to survive. We get to enjoy time travel shenanigans in specific time periods, each lending a distinct flavor to that book. The situation and the relationships between key characters build as the books progress, but you can read them in any order. If you're familiar with the Harry Dresden books from Jim Butcher, it works like that. Dip in at any point, and if you like what you read, best continue in sequence starting with the first novel. I've taken particular care to make that work with this series, because some readers will want to go straight into a novel that piques their interest. For example, if you're intrigued by a novel where history changes because of events at a KISS concert in the 80s, then start with book3 (Time Travel in Rock: 1984). If you want time travel adventure in Ancient Egypt or the Neolithic, start with book 4 (The Year of the Ox – or you can when I've finished writing it) . You get the picture.