Queen of Time, Here and Now

Queen of Time, my long-awaited contemporary magic realism novel, is now available at Amazon Kindle, Barnes and Noble, Smashwords, and other online booksellers. The length is a slim 200 pages, but as is always the case with my writing, I try to make every word count.

And as with everything I write (and read), Queen of Time is meant to both entertain and reach deep, moving past genre designations and expectations into someplace bigger. The story starts out quietly, building momentum by deliberate stages until events achieve critical mass and all hell breaks loose in the most literal of ways.

At the story's core is the tense triad formed by three faculty members of a second-tier Midwest university, leading seemingly pedestrian lives that mask a disturbing shared history spanning centuries. Plain and socially awkward Lucasta Hilary, whose expertise in classical literature has never brought her the recognition she deserves, senses that past only in premonitions. However, her colleague Dunstan Lightner and military historian Byron Steele are fully aware of their mutual eternal enmity, and are instrumental in a quirk of fate that brings Lucasta fame and a Faustian bargain that makes her beautiful. The three are soon drawn into a web where temptation, damnation and redemption are inextricably entwined, in a struggle that ranges from the bleak remnants of Hadrian's Wall to the lush jungles of the Mayan highlands to the very edge of existence.

Hard to resist, no? Read the first two chapters at my newly-renovated website.

Note: While nothing in Queen of Time is overtly and/or gratuitously graphic,  especially as books go now, I wrote the story for adults.



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