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Belleville Author Andy Haynes Launches Teen Fossil Hunting Mystery, The Time Eater
New novel explores the wonders of the lost places buried in our cities, how three immigrant children navigate their broken families, and what they’re willing to do to save the greatest fossil find of the century.
December 02, 2025 Belleville, ON – Belleville author Andy Haynes has released a new mystery-adventure for young teens, now available at Amazon.ca and Indigo.ca. The Time Eater follows 13-year-old Foster Raymond and his unlikely team—a towering Newfoundland Retriever, a Swahili inventor, and an eight-fingered explorer—as they race to stop a mysterious villain known as the Time Eater who is erasing history, one fossil at a time.
Haynes asks, “Would you risk everything to uncover a truth that could save your grandfather’s legacy and change history? I love that Foster and his friends have that drive. And it leads them into situations that really captivated me during the writing of the book because their story became an exploration of the wonders of the lost places buried in our cities. I’m fascinated by those wild spaces—and Belleville has plenty of them—where you can find yourself isolated from the malls and factories with nature and history running riot all around you, only a few hundred metres from 4 lanes of traffic.”
“I grew up fossil hunting in the river valleys that carve through Toronto. That was the inspiration,” says the author. “The heart of this book is 13-year-old Foster, whose grandfather, a renowned paleontologist, died under suspicious circumstances. Foster’s not the kind of kid to leave a mystery unsolved, no matter what the cost. So, as he seeks to uncover the truth behind his grandfather’s death, he finds himselffighting to solve the cryptic clues his granddad left behind while battling the ruthless Time Eater. This enemy of science operates in the shadows, stealing irreplaceable fossils and robbing the world of crucial discoveries.”
The core of story Haynes says is, “The exceptional way three immigrant children navigate their broken families and confront escalating threats, discovering just how far they are willing to go to preserve their friendship.”
The Time Eater: A Foster Raymond Fossil HunterNovel is available now in paperback and eBook at Amazon.ca
About the Author:
It all began in the dirt.
I spent my summers hooked on the thrill of unearthing new fossils from the riverbanks of Toronto’s wildest spaces. When the snows came, and I got a little older, I wrote and wrote, until I ended up as head of content marketing for a global tech firm. Along the way I co-wrote two non-fiction books, published by John Wiley &Sons in the US, Canada and more than a half-dozen other countries.
Now based in Belleville, I’m working on spreading the word about local fossil hunting for beginners and continuing the story of Foster’s quest to uncover fantastic fossils around the world while finding ways to make friendship and family work.
I was recently interviewed by German film production company CocoaFilm as part of their upcoming The Great Loop documentary series that will premiere in 2026. I was happy to share with their global audience the ins and outs of fossil hunting in the Bay of Quinte area, where to look and what you can expect to find in our 450-million-year-old limestone deposits.
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Contact:
Andy Haynes
(416) 220-0142
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