PUBLICATION EXPECTED IN 2027

When Time Remembers

Keepers & Guardians Saga, Book One

Kurt W. Oster

History was never meant to have witnesses. Some stories were never meant to survive. And some people are destined to change the future simply by remembering it.

When young physicist professor Edwin Ravensmere activates Chronos, an experimental machine designed to unlock the mysteries of time itself, a catastrophic accident shatters everything he knows. Thrown more than a century into the past, Edwin awakens in Edwardian England with no way home, no way forward, and no explanation anyone would believe. He has lost his family. His future. His century.

Then, he arrives at Ravensmere Estate. To brilliant young aristocrat Arthur Ravensmere, Edwin is an irresistible mystery. To loyal steward Augustus Fletcher, he is someone worth protecting. To thoughtful scholar John Devoe, he is a lonely soul searching for a place to belong. And for the first time since losing everything, Edwin finds something he never expected–a family.

As friendships deepen and years pass, the bonds formed at Ravensmere Estate become stronger than blood, transforming four lives in ways none of them can yet imagine. What begins as friendship grows into loyalty, legacy, and a love powerful enough to endure across impossible boundaries.

But history is already changing. Across Britain and beyond, a powerful industrialist named Gideon Hawthorne appears wherever the course of civilization shifts. Revolutionary inventions, political upheavals, economic transformations, Hawthorne is always there first. Always watching. Always waiting.

When Arthur begins investigating, he uncovers evidence that should not exist: journals that record future events, letters written across impossible decades, forgotten travellers lost in time, hidden archives, and clues pointing toward a secret buried beneath history itself. What begins as a mystery soon becomes something far greater. Because Hawthorne is not searching for knowledge. He’s searching for control. For generations, his family has pursued a dangerous belief: that history can be improved, humanity cannot be trusted with its own future, and someone must decide which version of the world deserves to survive. Caught between the past and the future, Edwin carries a secret at the center of it all. As long-buried truths emerge, he, and those he loves, discover that the battle before them is not simply about time travel. It is about memory, about legacy, about who owns the past and who gets to write the future.

Blending sweeping historical fiction, epic science fiction, family saga, mystery, and an unforgettable LGBTQ+ love story, When Time Remembers is the first instalment of The Keeper & Guardian Saga, a multi-generational journey, spanning centuries, timelines, hidden histories, and the enduring power of found family. Because the most powerful force in history is not time. It is the people who choose what is worth remembering.

Some stories survive generations. Some loves survive centuries. And some secrets can change the fate of humanity.