Step into a secret society of legendary writers and discover the story that could save time itself. What if the authors who shaped the world’s greatest stories were secretly protecting the timeline? When fourteen-year-old Ethan Ross arrives at Oxford, he hopes to become a writer someday. Instead, he learns the truth: a hidden order called the Inklings recruits extraordinary storytellers from across history to guard time itself. Members include some familiar names―Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Emily Dickinson, C. S. Lewis, and J. R. R. Tolkien. But the timeline is breaking. Strange rifts called Tears are spreading across history, threatening to erase entire stories and the people who wrote them. With danger closing in, Ethan must decide whether he belongs among history’s greatest writers… and whether his own words are powerful enough to help save the future. Morgan E. Iverson is a middle grade author from a small town in Georgia. Stories make her feel ready to do the impossible, so she writes to give others that power, too. When she's not writing books, she enjoys her hobbies as a chocolatier and volunteer penguin keeper (not at the same time).