Welcome to the world of Time Hunter, an original blend of detective, magic, science fiction, time travel adventure in space and time. A compelling mix of Doctor Who, film noir and Sapphire and Steel, set in a world where monsters exist, and where the hunted is not always the enemy.

Time Hunter is a series of paperback novellas, published by Telos Publishing Ltd, recounting the adventures of Honoré Lechasseur and his companion Emily Blandish. The first title in the series, which introduces the characters, is The Cabinet of Light, which is also a cross-over with Telos's Doctor Who novellas range.

Honoré is a black American ex-GI, now living in London, 1949. He has until recently earned his living as a 'fixer' - basically a spiv selling illicit goods - and still maintains contacts from that old lifestyle, which sometimes leads to him working as a kind of ad hoc private detective. Since the events of The Cabinet of Light, however, he has found that life has a new purpose for him. He discovered during the course of that adventure that he is a time-sensitive. In theory, this attribute, as well as affording him a low-level perception of the fabric of time itself, gives him the ability to sense the whole timeline of any person with whom he comes into contact. In practice, he is still learning how to master this ability, so he cannot always use it at will.

Emily is a strange young woman whom Honoré has taken 'under his wing'. She is suffering from amnesia, and so knows little of her own background. Over the course of the series of novellas, a little more will be learnt about her origins - although certain aspects will always remain vague and mysterious. She comes from a point in Earth's far future, where she is one of a small minority of people, known as time channellers, who have developed the ability to make jumps through time using mental powers so highly evolved that they could almost be mistaken for magic. They cannot do this alone, however. In order to achieve a time-jump, a time channeller must connect with a time-sensitive.

Time-travel capability is seen as a 'holy grail' by many different political regimes, business organisations, religious cults and occult sects, so time channellers - who are much rarer than time sensitives - find themselves highly sought-after, not to say hunted, by various competing factions, not all of whom have the purest of motives... While some time channellers are happy to use their ability in the service of groups with whom they themselves have sympathies or allegiances, others consider it to be more a curse than a blessing. Most of these have fled to different points throughout Earth's history, where they hide in constant fear of being tracked down and forced to use their ability for evil purposes.

The relationship between a time channeller and a time sensitive is an almost symbiotic one. If Emily or another time channeller (and it is envisaged that others will be encountered during the course of the Time Hunter series) joins hands and minds with Honoré while he is using his time sensitive ability to sense a person's timeline, they can both be physically transported to a different point - past or future - in that timeline. They both have to be there, they have to touch, and both have to think the same thing - in the case of The Winning Side, they meet a man from the future, and both think "where is he from?" at the same time... and end up there. At the start of The Clockwork Woman, they are walking together when they see a woman whose time line is just not right, they stumble against each other and are transported almost by accident.

Honoré can 'see' time, Emily has the ability to travel in it. The two together function as a complete circuit that can travel through time and navigate. This means that, on an initial jump from 1949, Honoré can find himself in any time period from the mid-1800s (when the oldest person whom he could encounter in 1949 would have been born) to the mid-2000s (when the youngest person whom he could encounter in 1949 would die). Once in the new time period, however, he and his time channeller companion can use someone else's timeline to jump even further back or forward. In later novellas, as Honoré continues to develop his ability, he will discover that he can even sense the timelines of people who are already dead, from their skeletal remains. So if he sensed the timeline of, say, a mummy in a sarcophagus at the British Museum, he could - with the aid of Emily or another time channeller - be transported as far back as to ancient Egypt in a single jump.

Emily's mental powers include a telepathic ability to understand what people are saying even if they are speaking in an unfamiliar tongue, which proves invaluable in the course of her adventures with Honoré. She remembers little of Earth's history - which sometimes leads her to make mistakes - but seems generally unfazed by the experience of visiting different time periods, suggesting that in her pre-amnesia past she has been a frequent time-traveller. Honoré, on the other hand, knows only a smattering of languages other than English, and experiences significant degrees of culture shock when thrust into unfamiliar past or future surroundings. Consequently he is never entirely comfortable, and sometimes distinctly uncomfortable, in the different time periods in which he finds himself, and generally likes to return to his home territory of London 1949 at the earliest opportunity once a particular adventure has finished.