An exciting time travel journey, combining suspense and adventure with problem solving as Harper
tries to keep history on the right course and save a missing girl.
Harper Wells finally gets a room of her own, away from her annoying big brother and the grief they
both feel at the disappearance of her mother. But on the first night in her brand-new bed, she wakes up
in the past and meets a young girl named Edie. Not knowing where she is or how she got there,
Harper eventually wakes up back in her room at home.
When another night’s sleep turns into a second visit to Edie, she’s grabbed by a boy her age, who
identifies himself as Maximilian. He’s a timeline officer and reveals that Harper has accidentally
bought a time-travelling bed and her encounter with Edie could have changed Australian history. He
tells her that the World Office of Timeline Officials—WOTO for short—will kill her if they realize
she’s using a Wollemi Bed without authorization or training.
Has Harper changed the future or can things be restored? And who does her new bed really belong to?
The answer throws her into a world of time-travelling spies and puts her life in danger as she tries to
restore Edie’s timeline and find the missing timeline officer.
Harper Wells: Renegade Timeline Officer is an exciting story ideal for ages 10 and up. It covers grief
and loss, as well as important moments in Australia’s history. It has a feisty heroine who knows how
to stand up for herself and tries to set things right instead of walking away.
Bethany Loveridge is an author-illustrator, film and art teacher, and lifelong bookworm. She’s an experienced presenter and educator and has written many learning resources and arts advocacy materials.
Bethany won the Chapter Books – Older Readers category at the CYA Conference in 2024 and was the winner of the Book Links Queensland Mentorship in 2023. She achieved third place in the Chapter Books – Younger Readers category at the CYA Conference in 2023 and was the winner of the ASA/Copyright Agency Award Mentorship in 2022. She was shortlisted for the Varuna Residential Fellowship in 2022 and the runner-up in the Pitch It! competition in 2021 as well as a recipient in the Kill Your Darlings Mentors Program in 2020.
Bethany lives in Queensland, Australia with her trivia-loving husband and two creative kids. Like one scene in the book, her nonno really did raise tens of thousands of chickens in long tunnel sheds, and one of her favorite pastimes was climbing the mulberry tree (preferably in mulberry season).
Harper Wells: Renegade Timeline Officer is the first story in the Wollemi Trilogy and Bethany’s debut book. Find her at www.bethanyloveridge.com or hanging with the animals at Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary.
