It’s the end of the eighties and Jake Hawkins has left the north for London. The rave scene is in full swing with its boom-boom-bang-bang music, laser-beam lights, windmill dancing and E. It’s the last year of the decade and the year before he has to face the reality of time zipping by with his life and the world changing faster than his youth ever imagined. At a rave he meets Jean, a beautiful young woman from Liverpool who is not what she seems and almost from the moment he meets her she behaves mysteriously and secretively. When she disappears, he thinks she is out of his life forever. When she returns, in the most hauntingly bizarre circumstances, the day-to-day becomes settled into a romance and a happiness Jake never thought possible. The summer of 1989 is scorching and he could not be happier. But the more Jean opens up, the more her behaviour becomes ever more bizarre, Jake finds himself torn between what his inner voice tells him to do and what his heart stops him from doing. Jean has psychological complications that are impossible for a naïve twenty-something young man to get to grips with. When she turns her amateur psychology on him and questions him about his own past and present, the relationship heads on a downward spiral that he knows he needs to get out of. Or so his inner voice tells him. A Ride On Time is about identity, how the past shapes your future, how we never really get to know or fully understand each other, let alone ourselves, no matter how older or wiser we become. The novel spans the heady days of the late 1980s acid house scene to the 2000s when everything changed so fast. It is also a reminder that with new technology and social media, we can never really leave our past behind and as Jake finds out, his past and the people from it, from the decades that have rolled by, are just a click away.