Tempest by
Julie Cross is the first book in what will be a trilogy about a young man, Jackson, who can time-travel. It is an innate ability he has, and the only people who know about it - or so he thinks at first - are himself and his science-geek friend, Adam. He and Adam do "experiments" to try and learn as much about the physics and the concept of time-travel as they can, and Adam encourages Jackson to keep a journal of notes about each "jump." One thing they have noticed from these experiments is that nothing Jackson does when he goes into the past ever changes the future - their present. But when two men burst in on Jackson and his girlfriend, Holly, in her dorm room, everything changes. They seem to know who he is and what he can do, and Holly is shot.
Jackson jumps, but something's different, because this time he can't get back. All he can think about is trying to get back to 2009 to save Holly, but not knowing how, he is determined to learn all he can about his abilities. What he ends up learning is that there is much more going on than he ever could have imagined - and much more is at stake than just Holly's life.
