The Continuum
-
-
4.1 • 23 Ratings
-
-
- $3.99
-
- $3.99
Publisher Description
Elise Morley is an expert on the past who's about to get a crash course in the future.
For years, Elise has been donning corsets, sneaking into castles, and lying through her teeth to enforce the Place in Time Travel Agency's ten essential rules of time travel. Someone has to ensure that travel to the past isn't abused, and most days she welcomes the challenge of tracking down and retrieving clients who have run into trouble on their historical vacations.
But when a dangerous secret organization kidnaps her and coerces her into jumping to the future on a high-stakes assignment, she's got more to worry about than just the time-space continuum. For the first time ever, she's the one out-of-date, out of place, and quickly running out of time.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Nikel's debut takes the reader on an exciting journey through time with Elise Morley, an agent with the Place in Time Travel Agency, who rescues clients who have stayed too long on their vacations to the past. When she is kidnapped by a secret U.S. government organization, she is forced on a mission to rescue an agent who has jumped into the future. Meanwhile, an errant passenger from the Titanic leaps forward in time, desperate to find his fianc e, a tourist from 2012 whom Elise had retrieved from her sojourn in 1912. Nikel's inventive spin on time travel and eye for sumptuous detail make her writing a treat to read. While her cast of characters is strong and likable, the narrative at its most climactic points veers towards the melodramatic ("I thought it would be an adventure, but I realize now what a monster I've become"). Nikel's tale, which wrestles with complex themes of memory and fate, will appeal to the casual speculative fiction reader.
