The first book in the USA Today bestselling British madcap time-travelling series served with a dash of wit that seems to be everyones cup of tea.

?History is just one damned thing after another. ?Arnold Toynbee

Behind the seemingly innocuous facade of St. Marys Institute of Historical Research a different kind of academic work is taking place. Just dont call it ?time travel?these historians ?investigate major historical events in contemporary time. And they arent your harmless eccentrics either; a more accurate description as they ricochet around history might be unintentional disaster-magnets.

The first thing you learn on the job at St. Marys is that one wrong move and history will fight back?sometimes in particularly nasty ways. But as new recruit Madeleine Maxwell soon discovers its not only history theyre often fighting.

The Chronicles of St. Marys tells the chaotic adventures of Max and her compatriots?Director Bairstow Chief Leon Farrell Mr. Markham and many more?as they travel through time saving St. Marys (too often by the very seat of their pants) and thwarting time-travelling terrorists?? all the while leaving plenty of time for tea.

From eleventh-century