Time's Relative
by Debbie DeLouise
Genre: Time Travel Thriller
It’s the fall of 1998, and librarian Samantha Stewart is looking for a
new job. After seeing an ad for a high-paying position at a company called
Virtual Software that entails research and travel, Sam investigates the
company and learns that its president has gone missing, and that it’s
currently being run by the vice-president Greg Parsons.
Before Sam makes it to the interview, she's visited by a strange woman
who introduces herself as Jane Oldsfield: a time traveler whose mission
Greg Parsons is trying to prevent.
Sam ignores the woman and goes on the job interview anyway. Soon, she
finds herself involved not only with Greg Parsons, but also Philip
Montmart, a chain-smoking detective with a vendetta for his wife’s killer,
and the time-traveling Oldsfield and her feline accomplice.
Witnessing world events that have yet to happen in her lifetime,
including 9/11, Hurricane Sandy, Y2K hysteria and the COVID pandemic, can
Samantha figure out Oldsfield's plans?
“What
did Jane mean when she said the cat was working for her?”
“It’s a
long story; but when Jane argued with me about the proper use of the
Time-Travel Disks, she implanted a microchip in Floppy that would allow him to
travel back and forth through time and act as her ‘Grounder.’”
“Is that
what she meant by saying that she switched with him and why I saw the cat right
before she appeared in my apartment?”
“Yes.
Floppy is her grounder to the present time. She has the eleven Foundation
Markers; the twelfth is in the circuits implanted in the cat.”
“Excuse
me if I seem a little naïve about your technical terms, but what is a
‘grounder’ and how does it work?” Sam hoped she was asking the right questions
and not exacerbating the listening detective who was probably getting impatient
with all the small talk.
“I know
you’re eager to learn everything, and I don’t blame you. But I’d rather not
confuse you further. The next time we meet, I’ll show you the prototypes and
Jane’s journal. For some reason, she didn’t take it with her. That’s what
enabled me to duplicate the disks.”
“Now,
wait a minute, Mr. Parsons.” It was Sam’s turn to be impatient. “You can’t give
me half an explanation and see me off. If I’m going to be involved in this, I
want the whole scoop. Besides, I don’t appreciate midnight or any other time of
day visits from your partner.”
“She’s not my partner,” Parsons corrected her. “She
used to be but not after she convoluted our project and used my cat as a guinea pig.”
Debbie De Louise is an award-winning author and a reference librarian at
a public library on Long Island. She is a member of International Thriller
Writers, Sisters-in-Crime, and the Cat Writer’s Association. She has a BA
in English and an MLS in Library Science from Long Island University. Her
seven published novels include the 4 books of her Cobble Cove cozy mystery
series: A Stone's Throw, Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Written in
Stone, and Love on the Rocks, her paranormal romance, Cloudy Rainbow, her
mystery thriller Reason to Die, and her latest psychological mystery, Sea
Scope. She also published a romantic comedy novella featuring a jewel
heist caper, When Jack Trumps Ac. Debbie has also written articles and
short stories for several anthologies of various genres. She is currently
querying agents to represent the first book of a new cozy mystery series.
She lives on Long Island with her husband, daughter, and three cats.
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