Seconds to Spare
An eighteen-year-old trapped in a 28-minute plane-crash time loop must solve the mystery before the cycle changes forever.
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The Man Who Died Seven Times
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An amnesiac teen relives the same trapped day with a wary stranger while clues about their world and danger surface.
A Year Without Autumn
A girl’s ordinary summer visit becomes a race through time when she lands one year ahead and finds her best friend’s life changed.
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Doctor Who: Touched By An Angel
A grieving widower gets a chance to save his wife, while the Doctor races to stop the Weeping Angels from rewriting time.
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A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers
Two sisters with time-bending powers race through possible realities as grief, family trauma, and fate collide.
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Summertime Rendering, Vol. 1
A grieving teen returns to a remote island funeral and is trapped in a deadly time loop of shadows, secrets, and murder.
End of the World House
In a near-future Paris trip, two lifelong friends are pulled into a looping Louvre mystery amid a world that refuses to end.
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On the Calculation of Volume I
A bookseller becomes trapped reliving November 18, forcing her to confront time, loneliness, and what persists.
Step Back In Time
A career-driven London woman keeps waking up in new decades, chasing the reason behind her time jumps and a lasting love.
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Bones of the Earth
A paleontologist joins a secret time-travel project to study living dinosaurs, only to face paradoxes, sabotage, and survival.
Replay
A man dies at 43 and wakes up at 18 with his future memories intact, forced to relive and rethink his life.