Time Castaways #3: The Forbidden Lock

In this action-packed conclusion to the Time Castaways series from New York Times bestselling author Liesl Shurtliff, Captain Vincent fractures the delicate fabric of time and space to rewrite history as he wants it, and it’s up to the Hudson kids to defeat this time-traveling villain once and for all. Now in paperback!

With the power of the Aeternum, Captain Vincent can rewrite history to create his perfect future. One with infinite power. A loyal crew. And thanks to Alfred Nobel, the notorious inventor of dynamite, Captain Vincent will soon be able to erase people from time altogether―including those pesky Hudson kids.

As time periods begin crashing into one another under Captain Vincent’s meddling, mass chaos unfolds. Central Park becomes a playground for dinosaurs. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is overrun by the very historical figures it features. And in that mayhem, the Hudsons begin to disappear, one by one, and Matt finds himself increasingly alone and unsure of himself.

But hope comes from an unexpected source: Jia, the Vermillion rebel and the Hudsons’ ally, has been keeping her own timeline a secret. A race to the Forbidden City reveals that the three pillars of the universe―matter, space, and time―were once locked to create order in the world. Captain Vincent broke that lock. Only the Hudson kids are able to mend what he broke…and the key is in Matt’s birthplace, Ciudad Perdida, the Lost City of Colombia, where the Hudsons and Captain Vincent face off in the ultimate showdown―a battle for time itself.