Within the Space of a Second: Volume 1
By (Author) Elise Helliwell
Simon & Schuster Australia
Simon & Schuster Australia
25th November 2025
27th November 2025
Australia
General
Fiction
Magical realism
Science fiction
Paperback
368
Width 128mm, Height 198mm
A slow-burn, swoon-worthy love story about two people separated by time and dangerous secrets that threaten to tear them apart. A debut time travel romance for fans of The Seven Year Slip, Divine Rivals and The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue.
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Every morning, Mariella Adams wakes with a strange electrical energy buzzing beneath her skin. Terrified she has inherited her late mothers mental illness, she tells no one, but when she discovers her mothers lost journals with an entry dated after her death, shes desperate for answers.
Mariellas confusion grows when shes approached by Rose and Parker, who claim to be time travellers from the future. Communicating with the past and Mariella is forbidden, but she holds the key to restoring Parkers ability to time travel before theyre caught in this forbidden timeline.
Shocked, Mariella agrees to help them. They might hold the answers shes looking for, and the more time she spends with them, the more she finds herself drawn to Parker. As she fights to uncover the mysteries of her past and the secrets of his future, will Mariella discover the truth before time runs out and Parker disappears forever
Elise Helliwell resides on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, with her husband and two cheeky girls. An avid romance reader, Elise writes contemporary and sci-fi/fantasy romance, juggling themes of love, anticipation and emotional angst. Part time radiographer and full time hopeless romantic, Elises writing combines her love of science and the romance genre to produce suspenseful, swoon-worthy love stories that will keep readers falling until the very last page. Within the Space of a Second is her debut novel.