Lorrie Farrelly
Navy brat and graduate of the University of California , Santa ACruz , LORRIE FARRELLY is proud to be a Fightin ' Banana Slug ( well , okay , they ' re really lovers , not fighters ). Following graduate school at Northwestern University , she began a career in education that included teaching art to 4th graders , drama to 8th graders , and finally , math to high school students ( if anybody loses asymptotes , she can probably find ' em ...).
She ' s a three-time winner on Jeopardy ! ( despite forgetting the chemical symbol for sulfuric acid ... oh , wait - she never knew that in the first place ), has shepherded wideeyed foreign exchange students along Hollywood Blvd . (" As many stars and lunatics as there are in the Heavens "), and happily curried and shoveled as a ranch hand at Disneyland ' s Circle D Ranch . And always , she writes .
Lorrie has won a Presidential Commendation for Excellence in Teaching Mathematics . She ' s been a Renaissance nominee for Teacher of the Year and a finalist for the Orange Rose Award in romantic fiction . She ' s never won the lottery , except where her family is concerned . For her , they ' re the ultimate prize .
TIMELAPSE
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 freedom-fighting 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 one hundred years before . To have a future , they will have to find their way to the past .