Loving
in Time
AE
Kirk
Genre:
Romance sci-fi, time travel
Publisher:
Vanguard Press
ISBN-10:
1843868113
ISBN-13:
978-1843868118
Number
of pages: 370
Word
Count: 92,000
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Book
Description:
Living
in New England, half Greek half American high school student, Helen,
lives a relatively normal life; a mother and father and two bratty
younger twin brothers. But it all changes when her mother welcomes
two strange but devilishly cute boys, Marcus and Gus, into the house
and into Helen’s life.
While
the boys live with Helen, they help her discover that she is far from
normal and she is, in fact, part of an ancient Grecian love story
that has stretched to every corner of the world. She is Helen of
Sparta from the myth, Helen of Troy. The boys however, ask a
difficult favour from her, to leave her modern family and go back in
time to help break an ancient cycle.
Given
the ability to stop time and travel into centuries past, she and her
new friends, Marcus and Gus, are joined by five other boys who try
and protect Helen from the evil Decurion soldiers; ancient time
travellers who wish to stop Helen from breaking the cycle.
Journeying
to Ancient Greece, Helen must act as she once had but when the moment
the war begins and Helen must break the cycle, she is given a life
changing decision. The question is, will she choose wisely?
Excerpt
1:
Stretching
out on the couch, I placed my arm over my eyes to cover the afternoon
sun that peeked in at the west facing window. I was getting a
headache from doing so much and I still hadn’t even done my
homework yet... which reminded me I need to call Paris.
About
to get up to grab the phone, I heard a car pull into the driveway.
Sitting up, I looked out of the window, but only saw the top half of
the metallic green people carrier which belonged to my Mom. Groaning
that the dweebs were home, I flopped back onto the couch and closed
my eyes.
Bang!
Went the sound of the first door that was usually Castor. One minute
older he always got out of the left side of the car first. Bang! That
was Sander’s right door being slammed shut. Bang! And there was
Mom’s. Bang!
‘Huh?’
Sitting up and frowning, at the forth door slam I glanced at the car
again and saw five heads move to the front of the house.
Keys
jangled as they moved to the door.
In
a sitting position, I looked around at the door to see who was coming
into the house. Then it hit me, could these be the kids Mom’s note
referred to?
The
door banged open and Castor and Sander ran into the hallway, glancing
at me in the room, they then gave me the middle finger and ran up
stairs to their room.
‘Suckers,’
I laughed. Standing up as I saw shadows on the carpet.
‘In
you go,’ I heard Mom suggest. Standing up, I saw two tall figures
move in front of me with their backs turned. Holding two large navy
blue holdalls in each hand, they placed them on the floor. Hearing
her shuffle down the hallway, she headed to the kitchen; glancing at
me as she passed. ‘Oh Helen,’ Mom smiled as she did a double take
and spotted me standing there like an idiot staring at the backs of
the heads of two tall guys. ‘This is Marcus and Gus, they will be
staying in your brothers' room for... well, until we can sort
something out.’
At
that point, they turned and my jaw dropped. It was that Marcus guy I
had met only a few hours ago outside the entrance to the school. His
friend, who looked rather similar to him, was maybe an inch taller
with slightly darker hair apart from a few strands of highlights by
his ears.
‘Wrong
Girl,’ Marcus laughed, snapping his fingers and pointing at me.
Nudging his friend he said, ‘I told ya we’d meet up again.’
About the Author:
AE
Kirk lives within the majestic Devonshire countryside in England, UK
where she wrote her novel, Loving In Time, within three months for a
competition. Winning joint runner-up, she continued to write a number
of other books ranging from sci-fi, to fantasy and action and a year
later, while she was in South Korea teaching English, found a
publisher. Kirk, who is Editor in Chief for a fantasy and sci-fi
magazine, Kingdom of Fantasy, loves nothing more than to write
interesting and unique stories with unusual plot-twists. After
gaining a Masters in Social Archaeology at Lampeter University,
Wales, Kirk uses her research skills to describe, in vivid detail,
the ancient locations in her books. Kirk's passions in archaeology
shines through in Loving In Time, her first published novel.
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