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TIMELAPSE
Excerpt

JESSIE swam
up from a
deep,
dreamless sleep,
a relaxed,
satisfied
smile still curving the corners of
her mouth. She stretched
luxuriously and reached for Alex.
Eyes still closed, she frowned at
the rough feel of a heavy wool
blanket next to her skin. What
did she need a blanket for? It
was summertime, and the room
was already warm. She stirred,
but instead of Alex's arms
cradling her, she felt the coarse,
lumpy cushion of a pile of burlap
sacks. Jessie opened her eyes,
decided reasonably that she was
still dreaming, and closed them
again.
A moment later she came wideawake with a jolt of full-blown
panic.
As though still trapped in sleep,
she tried to scream, but her
throat closed and she couldn't
make a sound. She thrashed
against the blanket that tangled

around her and gave in to
hysteria.
Then, mercifully, the screams
came.
"Alex! Alex! ALEX!"
He seemed to materialize out of
nowhere in the dim light,
wrapping her struggling body in
his arms, pulling her protectively
against him. Her cheek rubbed
against coarse, starched fabric,
her hands caught in straps that
seemed to run vertically up his
chest. The strange sensations
increased her confusion and she
struggled frantically to escape.
Alex tightened his hold, letting
her flail against him. He
murmured soothing
reassurances into her ear, his
voice hoarse and strained.
"Jessie, it's all right, it's me! I'm
here! You're all right,
sweetheart, you're okay. Listen,
Jessie, listen to me. Settle down,
it's all right, it's all right."
Finally his words got through to
her. She sank down against him,

The accidental death of his
beloved wife sent Alex Morgan
into a numbing world of
suppressed grief and rage, eased
only by a profound bond with his
son. Suddenly his life is shattered
again when a chance discovery
propels him into a world gone
horribly, terrifyingly wrong.
Piecing together clues in this new
nightmare, Alex suspects a
colleague of taking a few,
meddling steps back in time,
changing the course of history -
destroying Alex's family and his
world. Desperately clinging to his
sanity, he searches for any
evidence his young son still
exists.
Jessica O'Neil is fighting a
nightmare of her own, captured
and facing execution for freedomfighting heroics in her grim,
oppressive world. When Alex
rescues the feisty young rebel,
she resists her dangerous
attraction to him - a man who's
clearly crazy, literally in a world
of his own.
Bound together first by chance
and desperation, then by growing
purpose, respect, and emotion,
Alex and Jessie must depend on
each other to survive. More than
that, they must find a way to
prevent a terrible crime from
taking place - a crime that
plunged both their worlds into
nightmare - over a hundred years
before. To have a future, they will
have to find their way to the past.
TIMELAPSE is an AWARD
WINNER in the 2014 Readers'
Favorite International Book
Awards and a 2014 Author's Cave
Annual Book Awards GOLD
MEDALIST.