It’s funny how your life can change in an instant. Unfortunately for Kate, it’s just another day on the job. When her dying grandmother gives her a glowing blue medallion, Kate is taken from her normal life of Briar Hill, divorced parents, a best friend, and thrown into the world of time travel. The only way she can get it all back is to travel back in time and restore the past a nefarious religious group wants to change. But restoring the past also comes with a personal risk. The boy she loves won’t remember her, and the relationship they built. Is Kate willing to tamper with the fate of the entire world?
Timebound is Rysa Walker's debut book and won the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award and Grand Prize Young Adult Fiction Winner. Walker was previously a professor of History and Government, which makes the book feel more real with all the details and more believable (for a fiction book). When the book won the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award she quit her job and is now a full time author. Walker also wrote the rest of the series-two books and two novellas.
After reading the book, you discover the main question, might actually not be such a difficult one. When Kate's reality is erased from existence, she is left dazed and confused, and with Trey, someone who won’t stop trying to help her. It may or may not help that he thinks she’s cute. When she begins to learn about time travel and how to control the CHRONOS  key-the tool that makes time travel possible-the inevitable comes to light. Kate will have to make a decision, and it will most definitely end with a loss.
Read the book. Don’t read it. It doesn’t matter. The book is great. It’s interesting, with engaging characters, and gives an original spin on the classic topic of time travel. But the classic topic won’t make it a classic title. The book doesn’t send a breakthrough message, and as far as I predict won't burst with popularity. This fast read was interesting, but not burned into my memory, because I thought it was amazing and the best piece of literature I had ever read. It was good, but that’s it.