February 24, 2026
The latest book in the In Times to Come Series is here!
In Times to Come Book Nine: Deception
The timeline fractures deeper with every choice… and some secrets refuse to stay buried…
Alan Carson emerges from the portal into 2025 to find a world shaped by his own warnings. The Timms Ranch stands fortified. Douglas Timms is prepared. Sierra is alive and safe.
But Kenneth Sears is there too—respected, trusted, embedded in the lives Alan swore to protect.
Alan has seen what Kenneth becomes in other timelines. He’s watched the betrayal unfold before. Now he must decide whether that darkness can truly be erased… or whether it’s only waiting for the right moment to surface again.
As armed mercenaries push into the region and militias brace for conflict, a far more dangerous threat emerges: someone has learned about the cave. Someone with training, resources, and no hesitation about killing to reach it. This time, the enemy finds the portal before Alan can stop them.
With Kaylee refusing to accept that their bond can simply be rewritten, and Kocha struggling to survive in a world never meant for him, the fight for the cave becomes a collision of past and future—and a test of whether destiny can be changed without destroying everything in the process.
Deception is the ninth gripping installment in the In Times to Come series, where every altered timeline carries a cost—and some truths are more dangerous than lies.
October 14, 2025
Book One of my new Altered Course Series has been released!
Altered Course - The Passage
An abandoned schooner. A vanished crew. A world that no longer exists.
When a fully rigged wooden schooner is found drifting off the Florida coast—intact, empty, and untraceable—young boatbuilder Nathan Kirks is sent to investigate. The vessel shouldn’t exist, but every plank feels hauntingly familiar.
Granted permission to sail her north for a maritime festival, Nathan embarks with two close friends and a wary museum curator. But once they’re offshore, instruments fail, radios fall silent, and the sea itself seems to shift.
When they make landfall, the marinas are abandoned, the shore decayed, and the world they knew is gone. Now they must survive long enough to uncover what happened—before time itself swallows them for good.
From Scott B. Williams, author of In Times to Come and Feral Nation, comes Altered Course—a gripping new series where time itself is the greatest threat to survival.
July 28, 2025
The latest book in the In Times to Come Series is here!
In Times to Come Book Eight: Divergence
The past cannot be changed—or can it?
Alan Carson and Kaylee Malone escape the primeval world only to discover that crossing back through time doesn't mean returning home. The portal delivers them to a reality that echoes with familiarity yet feels fundamentally changed—a world reshaped by the very warnings Alan left behind. In this altered present, familiar faces harbor new secrets, and dangers they thought they’d dodged now manifest in unexpected ways. The timeline has shifted, responding to interventions never meant to occur, creating a future neither of them recognizes.
In this changed world, old warnings have been remembered by some and dismissed by others. Familiar faces bear the weight of years and choices made in Alan's absence, creating a landscape of bewildering contradictions and unexpected consequences.
As Alan and Kaylee navigate this strange new reality together, their shared ordeal has transformed them. The bond forged in survival grows deeper, even as they discover that everything Alan thought he knew about his mission might have been incomplete.
With each step they take, the mystery deepens: Have Alan's interventions through time created a better future or merely diverted the path to destruction into new directions? And in a world where the past and future have been irreversibly altered, where—or when—does he truly belong?
Divergence is the eighth riveting installment in the In Times to Come series, where every journey through time fractures reality in ways no one could predict.
A Brand New Series for 2022!
Displaced is the first book in my new In Times to Come Series, launched in April 2022. Like my previous post-apocalyptic and dystopian works, this is a story of survival action and adventure in a setting where technology has failed or has been disrupted and law and order have collapsed. The main difference is that in this story the central protagonist is also lost in time, arriving by accident in a near-future America he couldn’t have imagined when he set out for a hike in 2012.
The In Times to Come series begins in New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness, a place I have explored many times over the years and continue to find myself drawn to as often as I can get there. The Gila is truly a vast roadless wilderness with rugged mountains, seldom visited canyons and countless remote caves and caverns. The idea for this story came from my own discovery of forgotten artifacts and relics in one of those hidden caves, and as the series progresses, I intend to write a nonfiction account of that particular backpacking trip for those who are interested.
The Time Travel genre has always been one of my favorites, especially when it is mixed with exploration, survival and raw backcountry adventure. The works of Edgar Rice Burroughs in particular held my fascination as a young reader, and no doubt inspired many of the adventures I undertook in the islands, jungles and mountains when I was old enough to set out on my own.
The second and third episodes of the In Times to Come series are planned for later this year, with Book Two: Destiny scheduled for release in October.
April 26, 2022
The first book in the In Times to Come Series is here!
In Times to Come Series Book One: Displaced
A glitch in time and a one-way trip…
Back from his final deployment with the U.S. Marines, Alan Carson is hiking across New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness to ponder his future and put the war in his past.
When his best friend and squad leader, Sergeant Kurt Timms, took a Taliban bullet because of bad intel, Alan made a promise to his dying friend. He would come here to see the rugged mountains that were Kurt’s boyhood stomping grounds, even if the horseback hunting trip the two of them had planned would never come to pass.
After paying his respects to Kurt’s wife and daughter at the ranch his buddy had called home, Alan loads his pack for a week and heads into the Gila, finding all the splendor and solitude of which Kurt so often raved. But deep in a trackless canyon, miles from any trail, Alan finds something else: The body of a dead man at the foot of a cliff… an ancient cave dwelling in the rock face above… and a mysterious passageway too intriguing to ignore.
Alan Carson has come to the West to contemplate the next chapter of his life, but the future into which he emerges is beyond imagination; and the world he’d known before is changed beyond recognition. Can he ever come to grips with this new reality he must face? Can he ever return to the life he knows and understands?
Displaced is Book One of the Times to Come Series: a story of survival and courage in a near-future dystopian nightmare.