Stealing Time

Stealing Time

by Tilia Klebenov Jacobs and Norman Birnbach

Released November 19, 2024

Tori lives in 2020 and her parents are getting divorced. Bobby lives in 1980 and his family is about to fall apart. But when Tori finds herself stranded in 1980, the two must join forces and prevent a crime that might destroy everyone they care about. Simultaneously home and not home, Tori finds herself in a gritty New York just beginning to claw its way out of bankruptcy. Pollution and crime are rampant; graffiti is everywhere; cell phones and the Internet don't exist. Can two teenagers stop the jewelry theft of the decade? Will Tori ever get back to her own time? And how will Bobby react when she tells him that she's an accidental time-traveler-and his daughter?

Tilia Klebenov Jacobs is a bestselling novelist and short story writer. She serves on the board of Mystery Writers of America-New England, and is proud to say that HarperCollins calls her one of "crime fiction's top authors." Tilia has taught middle school, high school, and college, as well as classes for inmates in Massachusetts state prisons. She lives near Boston with her husband, two children, and pleasantly neurotic standard poodle.

Norman Birnbach is an award-winning writer who has published over a hundred essays, op-eds, short stories and articles. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Wall St. Journal, Chicago Tribune, Miami Herald, San Francisco Chronicle, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, New York Magazine, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Militant Grammarian. He has also studied gemology at the Gemological Institute of America (GIA). Stealing Time is his debut novel. A native New Yorker, he lives outside Boston with his wife, three children, and dog, Taxi.