A trip to Northern Norway in search of the Aurora Borealis and the ancient petroglyphs of Alta becomes the dividing line between one man's ordinary life and an existence scattered across human history. In Aurora Rift: A Man Out of Time, evolutionary anthropologist Dr. Kyle Richards is torn from the present by a violent geomagnetic phenomenon and forced to survive one civilization after another.
What makes Thomas LeBrun's premise especially intriguing is the trail Kyle leaves behind: while he struggles through the Stone Age, Viking encounters, the Silk Road, and the Mongol world, his wife Samantha begins uncovering archaeological evidence in the present that suggests his disappearance may have left fingerprints across thousands of years.
Science Fiction
Date Published: July 18, 2026
An Evolutionary Anthropologist, respected lecturer, martial artist, husband, and father, Kyle journeys to Northern Norway in search of the breathtaking Aurora Borealis and the ancient petroglyphs of Alta. But beneath the dancing northern lights, something impossible happens. A violent geomagnetic phenomenon tears Kyle from the modern world and hurls him across the corridors of time.
What begins as scientific fascination quickly becomes a desperate fight for survival.
Thrown into the Stone Age among primitive hunters, Kyle unknowingly leaves behind clues that will survive for thousands of years. He battles Viking warriors, walks beside Silk Road caravans, witnesses the rise of empires, and survives civilizations most people only read about in history books. Along the way, he encounters moments that forever alter him—including an unforgettable friendship with a young boy who will one day become Genghis Khan and a journey east with Marco Polo toward the legendary court of Kublai Khan.
But every jump through time comes at a cost.
As Kyle struggles to survive brutal landscapes, ancient warfare, and the terrifying instability of the auroral corridor itself, the man he once was slowly begins to disappear beneath scars, grief, and centuries of memory. Meanwhile, back in present-day Pennsylvania, his wife Samantha refuses to give up hope. Alongside archaeologists and scientists searching for answers, she uncovers ancient carvings, unexplained historical anomalies, and evidence suggesting Kyle may still be alive somewhere… in another time.
AURORA RIFT: A Man Out of Time is an epic blend of historical adventure, science, survival, and emotional human drama. Spanning thousands of years of civilization from Stone Age Norway to the Persian Empire of Xerxes, from Viking seas to the vast Mongol world the novel asks a haunting question:
If time itself opened before you… Would you ever truly find your way home again?
Kyle's profession gives Aurora Rift: A Man Out of Time an unusual point of view for a time-travel story. An evolutionary anthropologist who has spent his career studying humanity is suddenly forced to live inside the eras he once approached through evidence and scholarship. His passage through time also has consequences in both directions: Kyle leaves clues in the past while Samantha and the scientists searching for him encounter those clues in the present. That archaeological thread turns his fight for survival into a mystery stretching across millennia.
The novel also refuses to confine Kyle to a single historical setting. Stone Age Norway, Viking warriors, Silk Road caravans, the Persian Empire, and the Mongol world all become part of a much larger ordeal, while encounters connected to Genghis Khan, Marco Polo, and Kublai Khan place him close to recognizable historical figures. The accumulating scars, grief, and memories matter just as much as the changing settings, because every jump raises a harder question than where Kyle will appear next: how much of the man who left Pennsylvania can survive long enough to return?
Aurora Rift: A Man Out of Time is especially well suited to those who like their speculative fiction intertwined with recognizable periods of human history. The novel's shifting timeline gives historically curious readers more than one era to explore, while Kyle's scientific background adds an observer's perspective that becomes increasingly difficult for him to maintain once survival takes precedence over study.
The parallel search in present-day Pennsylvania should also appeal to readers who enjoy mysteries built around archaeological evidence and unexplained historical anomalies. Those interested in stories about separation, endurance, and the psychological price of survival will find another layer in Kyle's struggle to hold onto his identity and his family while centuries of experience accumulate between him and home.
Thomas LeBrun began his martial arts training in the early 1970s, inspired by Bruce Lee and Joe Frazier. He formally studied Judo, Tae Kwon Do, and Okinawan Kenpo, later expanding into Yoshitsune Ju-Jitsu under Sensei Michael DePasquale Sr. and Jr., as well as Aikido, Arnis, pressure-point applications, and boxing. His dedication earned him rank in multiple disciplines.
LeBrun’s path led him to the Close Protection field, where his martial arts knowledge evolved into specialized training in defensive arts, non-traditional weapons, and personal security. He has protected high-profile clients such as Bill Gates, Elton John, and Whitney Houston, working in more than 45 countries. In 2009, he created LeBrun’s American Combatives, a modern system bridging traditional martial arts with real-world application, later authenticated by Grand Master Ron Van Clief and Shidoshi Glen Perry.
A recognized authority in defensive arts, LeBrun earned his 10th dan in Hogoshin-Do in 2022 and has been honored with multiple awards, including Security Expert of the Year (2021) and induction into the Ultimate Warrior Class (2022). He is also a multi-award-winning, #1 international best-selling author of Hiding in Plain Sight and the Cameron Stone series, and was named Best Action & Thriller Author in Alabama, United States of 2025.
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The scale of Aurora Rift: A Man Out of Time may span thousands of years, but its central tension remains sharply personal. Kyle can survive another battle, another landscape, and another century, yet every escape carries him farther from the husband and father who first traveled to Norway. Samantha's search gives that loss a tangible form as ancient carvings and historical anomalies become possible evidence that the man she knows is still somewhere inside history.
That connection between the archaeological record and one family's separation is what makes the premise stand apart. Kyle is simultaneously studying history, altering it, and becoming part of it, while the people in his own time attempt to reconstruct his path from what he leaves behind. For readers intrigued by the idea of a modern scientist forced to experience humanity's past from the inside, Thomas LeBrun has built a time-travel adventure with a particularly ambitious reach.
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