diff --git a/Readme.md b/Readme.md
index a1e0dce..7268e96 100644
--- a/Readme.md
+++ b/Readme.md
@@ -30,11 +30,14 @@ You can create your own action creators for this package, or you can use the one
   payload: {
     url,
     params
-  }
+  },
+  meta: { timeout }
 }
 ```
 
-Where `url` and `params` are what you would pass as the first and second arguments to the native `fetch` API.  If you want your action creators to support some async flow control, you should use [redux-effects](https://github.com/redux-effects/redux-effects)' `bind` function.  If you do, your fetch action will return you an object with the following properties:
+Where `url` and `params` are what you would pass as the first and second arguments to the native `fetch` API. Third argument is action meta: `timeout` - the numerical value (in ms) which is used for rejecting request promise if it takes longer time to complete than the value of this property.
+
+If you want your action creators to support some async flow control, you should use [redux-effects](https://github.com/redux-effects/redux-effects)' `bind` function.  If you do, your fetch action will return you an object with the following properties:
 
   * `url` - The url of the endpoint you requested (as returned by the request)
   * `status` - The numerical status code of the response (e.g. 200)
@@ -79,7 +82,7 @@ function signupUser (user) {
     bind(fetch(api + '/user', {
       method: 'POST',
       body: user
-    }), ({value}) => userDidLogin(value), ({value}) => setError(value))
+    }, { timeout: 10000 }), ({value}) => userDidLogin(value), ({value}) => setError(value))
   ]
 }
 
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 855b089..fd18385 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
     "babel-preset-es2015": "^6.3.13",
     "babel-preset-stage-1": "^6.5.0",
     "babel-tape-runner": "^2.0.0",
+    "fetch-mock": "5.9.4",
     "lodash": "^4.8.1",
     "tap-spec": "^4.1.1",
     "tape": "^4.2.0"
diff --git a/src/index.js b/src/index.js
index 68d5c07..9a5d37e 100644
--- a/src/index.js
+++ b/src/index.js
@@ -16,14 +16,29 @@ const FETCH = 'EFFECT_FETCH'
  */
 
 function fetchMiddleware ({dispatch, getState}) {
-  return next => action =>
+ return next => action =>
     action.type === FETCH
-      ? g().fetch(action.payload.url, action.payload.params)
+      ? getRequestPromise(action.payload, action.meta)
           .then(checkStatus)
           .then(createResponse, createErrorResponse)
       : next(action)
 }
 
+function getRequestPromise ({ params, url }, meta) {
+  const fetchPromise = g().fetch(url, params)
+
+  if (meta && typeof meta.timeout === 'number') {
+    const rejectOnTimeout = new Promise((_, reject) => {
+      const error = new Error(`Request to ${url} timed out`)
+      setTimeout(() => reject(error), meta.timeout)
+    })
+
+    return Promise.race([fetchPromise, rejectOnTimeout])
+  }
+
+  return fetchPromise
+}
+
 /**
  * g - Return the global object (in the browser or node)
  */
@@ -95,13 +110,14 @@ function checkStatus (res) {
  * Action creator
  */
 
-function fetchActionCreator (url = '', params = {}) {
+function fetchActionCreator (url = '', params = {}, meta = {}) {
   return {
     type: FETCH,
     payload: {
       url,
       params
-    }
+    },
+    meta
   }
 }
 
diff --git a/test/index.js b/test/index.js
index bec69db..e54edd5 100644
--- a/test/index.js
+++ b/test/index.js
@@ -3,8 +3,23 @@
  */
 
 import test from 'tape'
+import fetchMock from 'fetch-mock'
 import fetchMw, {fetch} from '../src'
 
+const timeoutUrl = 'http://localhost/timeout'
+
+const successUrl = 'http://localhost/200'
+
+const failureUrl = 'http://localhost/404'
+
+fetchMock.get(timeoutUrl, new Promise(res => setTimeout(res, 2000)).then(() => 200));
+
+fetchMock.get(successUrl, {
+  headers: { 'Content-Type': ['text/html'] },
+});
+
+fetchMock.get(failureUrl, { status: 404 });
+
 /**
  * Setup
  */
@@ -21,8 +36,8 @@ const run = fetchMw(api)(() => {})
  */
 
 test('should work', t => {
-  run(fetch('https://www.google.com')).then(({url, headers, value, status, statusText}) => {
-    t.equal(url, 'https://www.google.com')
+  run(fetch(successUrl)).then(({url, headers, value, status, statusText}) => {
+    t.equal(url, successUrl)
     t.equal(status, 200)
     t.equal(statusText, 'OK')
     t.ok(headers.get('content-type').indexOf('text/html') !== -1)
@@ -30,7 +45,12 @@ test('should work', t => {
   })
 })
 
+test('should reject on timeout', t => {
+  t.plan(1)
+  run(fetch(timeoutUrl, {}, { timeout: 1000 })).then(() => t.fail(), (res) => t.pass())
+})
+
 test('should reject on invalid response', t => {
   t.plan(1)
-  run(fetch('https://www.google.com/notAValidUrl')).then(() => t.fail(), (res) => t.pass())
+  run(fetch(failureUrl)).then(() => t.fail(), (res) => t.pass())
 })