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MENINBLACK Waltzin Through TIme: History Lies. Music Remembers.
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Series: Book One of the Meninblack Chronicles, Book 1
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 456
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.13 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A darkly funny punk rock time-travel novel where music, memory and history refuse to stay dead.
Danny Rook never meant to become part of the story.
He was just a sound engineer, a lifelong music obsessive, and the sort of man who knew far too much about old gigs, lost recordings, forgotten arguments and the strange mythology that grows around a band over fifty years. But when a mysterious signal drags him out of the present and throws him back into the chaos of 1970s Britain, Danny discovers something terrifying.
The past is changing.
Not in grand, obvious ways. Not at first.
A missed rehearsal.
A wrong turn after a gig.
A conversation that should never have happened.
A song played slightly differently.
A death arriving too early.
A memory disappearing from the people who were there.
The timeline is being twisted, and the damage is spreading through decades of music history. If Danny cannot find out who is corrupting the past - and why - the future he knows will collapse into something colder, darker and wrong.
From grimy back rooms and dangerous city streets to legendary venues, lost nights, violent encounters and the strange electricity of a band on the edge of becoming immortal, Meninblack: Waltzin' Through Time is a wild journey through punk attitude, British humour, time travel, obsession, friendship, grief and the power of music to outlive the people who made it.
Danny soon learns that history is not a straight line. It is a dirty, noisy, fragile thing - held together by witnesses, memories, records, scars, rumours and songs. Change one moment, and everything after it begins to rot.
But the deeper he travels, the more he realises the truth may be worse than the corruption itself.
Some parts of history do not want to be saved.
Some ghosts are not ready to leave.
And some songs are warnings.
Blending dark comedy, science fiction, alternative history and punk rock mythology, this is a time-travel story for anyone who has ever believed a band could change their life, a song could drag them back to a moment, or a memory could be powerful enough to bend time itself.
Perfect for readers who enjoy:
Time-travel fiction
British punk and music culture
Dark humour
Alternative history
Rock-and-roll chaos
Strange mysteries
Gritty 1970s atmosphere
Stories about memory, obsession and fate
This is not a clean, polished trip through the past. This is beer-stained carpets, cigarette smoke, bad decisions, broken amplifiers, backstage paranoia, arguments in vans, violent nights, impossible coincidences and the creeping feeling that something in history is watching from the shadows.
Danny has one chance to put the music back where it belongs.
But every jump through time costs him something.
And by the end, he may have to choose between saving the future - and preserving the memories that made him who he is.
History lies. Music remembers.
Meninblack: Waltzin' Through Time is a darkly funny, fast-moving time-travel novel packed with punk energy, mystery, danger, humour and heart.
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