“Tempest”, by Julie Cross, is a young adult science fiction novel. Its main theme is the exploration of time travel wrapped within the young adult romance and angst tropes.
The novel is set in 2009 and follows a boy called Jackson, who has the strange ability to jump through the time. It’s all fun and exciting until he witnesses his girlfriend Holly getting killed by unknown enemies that were after him. He jumps back to the year 2007, but his ability leaves him just at that moment. Stuck in the past, Jackson decides to uncover the truth about his ability, his unknown enemies and help save his girlfriend.
The novel is a part of the trilogy of the same title, and it ruminates in the possibility of traveling through time. It was first published in 2012.
