Hope for the Best by Jodi Taylor

Key Plot points

  1.  Max and Bairstow create a plan to take down Clive Ronan once and for all.  Max “leaves” St Mary’s and goes to work for the Time Police.
  2.  Max and Leon’s son Matthew notices an error in the Time Map and basically destroys it while fixing it.
  3. Max and the Time Police go back to the 1500s to find that Lady Jane Grey has been Queen for 35 years, and London is about to be attacked by the Spanish Armada.  Max and the Time Police connect with the St Mary’s folks who are also there, and fix things.
  4. Max returns to St Mary’s for a visit, and find that everyone evacuated and the Idiot Halcombe has taken over, with Peterson and several historians as hostages.  Halcombe wants her to go to 33BC, and Max doesn’t want to but goes in order to save her friends.  The TP appear there and arrest Halcombe’s men.
  5. Max gets the secret evacuation location out of Peterson, and finds the rest of St Mary’s.  Also there are Adrian and Mikey and their teapot pod.  All part of the plan.
  6. Max returns to the TP police and with some drama and theatrics, escapes with Adrian and Mikey.  She connects with a criminal named Wolfe, who she is certain will bring her in contact with Clive Ronan. Wolfe, his henchman, the teens and Max all head to the Creataceous period, sure that Ronan will be there.
  7. Ronan kills Wolfe and his henchmen, and nearly kills Max before the TP and St Mary’s show up to save the day.
  8. Back the TPHQ, Max and Bairstow learn that Clive Ronan has been released because he still has things to do in his future/ Max’s past.  But they’ve put a bomb in his head.  The TP say the Matthew needs to stay with him for this reason.  Max is very pissed, and she and Bairstow return to St Mary’s, swearing to the Time Police that they had better not show their faces ever again.
  9. Surprise!  Matthew is with St Mary’s.

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