Time fractures. Loyalties shatter. Survival is not guaranteed.
Special Forces Temporal Agent Jane Doe is sent to the aging Nebula Nine station when time begins to unravel—and she soon realizes the threat is not just mechanical but personal. Racing a literal countdown with a mysterious blue-eyed stranger at her side, she must decide who to trust before history itself erases them.
What Others are Saying
Countdown to a
Shattered Tomorrow
When temporal anomalies start eating away at history, Special Forces Temporal Agent Jane Doe is dispatched to Nebula Nine to set things right. A future-sourced weapon, a lurking threat bent on obliterating the station, and a familiar yet enigmatic blue-eyed man named Ryder Jaxon pull Jane into a maze of stolen memories, institutional corruption, and choices that could unwrite their very existence.
Nebula Nine fuses military-grade action with mind-bending time mechanics and a slow-burn emotional core—perfect for readers who want high-stakes, cinematic sci-fi that still makes you feel. Tight, standalone, and relentless, it delivers pulse-pounding suspense, inventive future-tech hazards, and a morally complex romance that keeps the stakes heartbreakingly personal.
Who survives when the past and future are weaponized against them?
A Time-Shattering Thriller from Pauline Baird Jones
When time fractures aboard a lonely space station, one agent must race the future to save everyone she loves.
Special Forces Temporal Agent Jane Doe is used to putting the timeline back together. But nothing prepares her for the riddles and betrayals that unfold aboard the aging Nebula Nine space station. A looming threat from the future seeks to erase the station and everyone on it, and Jane soon finds herself entangled with a blue-eyed stranger whose presence raises more questions than answers. As strange visions and shifting loyalties deepen, Jane must decide what — and who — is worth altering in the name of survival.
Ryder Jaxon trusts no one and sees things others cannot. Haunted by visions of impending doom and forced into uneasy cooperation with the woman he secretly wants to believe in, Ryder and Jane dive into a dangerous race against time. As their investigation turns up a betrayal that could rewrite history, they face impossible moral choices and emotional costs that reverberate through the past, present, and future. Nebula Nine is an exhilarating standalone novel for readers who love mind-bending time travel, gritty space opera, and characters whose hearts are as tested as their courage.
Board the Station. Stop the Countdown.
Every second matters—dive into this head‑spinning time‑travel thriller now.
Pauline Baird Jones is a USA Today bestselling author known for tight plotting, emotional stakes, and high-concept time travel. With Nebula Nine she delivers a standalone thrill ride that blends speculative science, human drama, and relentless suspense.