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“A wildly inventive premise that never lets up.
Tim Travers’ cursed birthdays create one of the most original psychological thrillers I’ve read in years.”
—Graham Chapple
“Part supernatural thriller, part moral chess match.
Tim Travers is a protagonist you’ll root for, fear for, and occasionally question.”
—Eleanor Mafham
About the book
Tim Travers has a bizarre age-reversal syndrome that catapults him instantly into old age on his birthday, throwing him into multiple challenges and adventures, and culminating in a life-or-death showdown on his 19th.
On every birthday since his 11th, his age gets reversed—from 12 to 21, 13 to 31, 14 to 41... just for the day. He does not know if he will survive his 19th birthday, when he will suddenly be 91, and must figure out how to break the cycle to avoid dying of old age in his teens.
He is also endowed with a special power during each of his reversals, enabling him to make money, psychically know things, help some people, take revenge on others, carry out heroic rescues and even get away with murder.
Through the pain of his conflicted youth, the need for secrecy, the social isolation of being a freak, Tim has no real friends, and only his mother for family. When he goes to the jungles of Peru in search of some answers, it sets him on course for reuniting with his father, who disappeared when Tim was 3. The day before his 19th birthday, he meets his father on his yacht, and his dad shares shocking revelations about Tempertide—the syndrome they share—offering Tim a high-risk, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to turn his life around.
Myrtle Browne
Tempertide is one of those ideas you wish you’d thought of yourself. A hero who becomes decades older for a single day—and gains terrifying power while he does. Brilliant and haunting.
Sherry Strong, author, nutritionist
Great thriller with a philosophical edge. The story raises interesting questions about responsibility and temptation. If you had one day with extraordinary abilities and no consequences, what would you do?
About the author
Olga Sheean is an author of speculative fiction, cultural critique and narrative non-fiction that explores the intersection of consciousness, technology and human evolution. Her work combines grounded scientific ideas with imaginative leaps, often exploring what happens when systems designed to improve humanity spiral out of control.
She is also an editor, researcher and relationship therapist specializing in human dynamics, creative self-mastery and conscious evolution. Her mission is to expose the deeper truth about our world and to help actualize human potential by promoting leadership, personal autonomy, enlightenment, creativity, health, humour and personal magnetism.
Olga has worked as a photo-journalist for WWF International in Switzerland, as an editor for UNAIDS/WHO and other United Nations organizations in Geneva, as a book editor, and as a holistic-health magazine editor and columnist in Vancouver, Canada. She has written over 300 articles on holistic health, relationships, human potential, the environment, conscious evolution, electromagnetic fields and quantum physics.