After reconnecting with the one-that-got-away-and then losing him in a pandemic-middle-aged Iz struggles to survive alone in a remote mountain cabin. As despair sets in, she finds hope in caring for abandoned pets-until a man appears and offers her a one-way trip to the past.
With humanity teetering on the edge, she gives up everything in an attempt to alter the dystopian present-and see her missing lover one last time.
As the clock runs out, she's whisked into a coffin-like capsule. (A neural net insists she's humankind's best hope. No one knows why.) Unknown to her, the time machine has been activated once before-with deadly results.
She awakens on a pristine beach, suffering radiation-like side-effects but 20 years younger! With only hours to live, she must persuade our young hero to modify their future relationship and thereby set off a chain of events that will prevent the pandemic.
He falls hard for her (what guy could resist a smart, middle-aged woman in a newly acquired vixen's body?) until she blurts out that she's from the future and there to "fix" him.
Turns out, it's not him that needs fixing; it's her-and it's far too late for that.
Content Warning:
This book contains material that may be disturbing to some and, in movie form, would be rated NC-17 for strong language, nudity, sexual situations, and violence. It includes profanity, attempted sexual assault, abduction, intense physical danger, miscarriage, confinement, a pandemic, religious fanaticism (Christian), government incompetence bordering on malice, mistreated animals, gun violence, near drowning, and (human) death.
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Crossing In Time: (Between Two Evils #1)
The past isn't over, it's an opening. The future isn't hidden, it's a trap. If she ever wants to see him again, she'll have to take the risk.
After reconnecting with the one-that-got-away-and then losing him in a pandemic-middle-aged Iz struggles to survive alone in a remote mountain cabin. As despair sets in, she finds hope in caring for abandoned pets-until a man appears and offers her a one-way trip to the past.
With humanity teetering on the edge, she gives up everything in an attempt to alter the dystopian present-and see her missing lover one last time.
As the clock runs out, she's whisked into a coffin-like capsule. (A neural net insists she's humankind's best hope. No one knows why.) Unknown to her, the time machine has been activated once before-with deadly results.
She awakens on a pristine beach, suffering radiation-like side-effects but 20 years younger! With only hours to live, she must persuade our young hero to modify their future relationship and thereby set off a chain of events that will prevent the pandemic.
He falls hard for her (what guy could resist a smart, middle-aged woman in a newly acquired vixen's body?) until she blurts out that she's from the future and there to "fix" him.
Turns out, it's not him that needs fixing; it's her-and it's far too late for that.
Content Warning:
This book contains material that may be disturbing to some and, in movie form, would be rated NC-17 for strong language, nudity, sexual situations, and violence. It includes profanity, attempted sexual assault, abduction, intense physical danger, miscarriage, confinement, a pandemic, religious fanaticism (Christian), government incompetence bordering on malice, mistreated animals, gun violence, near drowning, and (human) death.
After reconnecting with the one-that-got-away-and then losing him in a pandemic-middle-aged Iz struggles to survive alone in a remote mountain cabin. As despair sets in, she finds hope in caring for abandoned pets-until a man appears and offers her a one-way trip to the past.
With humanity teetering on the edge, she gives up everything in an attempt to alter the dystopian present-and see her missing lover one last time.
As the clock runs out, she's whisked into a coffin-like capsule. (A neural net insists she's humankind's best hope. No one knows why.) Unknown to her, the time machine has been activated once before-with deadly results.
She awakens on a pristine beach, suffering radiation-like side-effects but 20 years younger! With only hours to live, she must persuade our young hero to modify their future relationship and thereby set off a chain of events that will prevent the pandemic.
He falls hard for her (what guy could resist a smart, middle-aged woman in a newly acquired vixen's body?) until she blurts out that she's from the future and there to "fix" him.
Turns out, it's not him that needs fixing; it's her-and it's far too late for that.
Content Warning:
This book contains material that may be disturbing to some and, in movie form, would be rated NC-17 for strong language, nudity, sexual situations, and violence. It includes profanity, attempted sexual assault, abduction, intense physical danger, miscarriage, confinement, a pandemic, religious fanaticism (Christian), government incompetence bordering on malice, mistreated animals, gun violence, near drowning, and (human) death.
"Astonishingly fine." Grady Harp, Amazon Hall of Fame Top 100 Reviewer & Vine Voice
"Edgy, literary, pithy [...] and refreshingly naughty." E.M. Davis, Senior Editor @ Pressque.com via Ingram
"[An] original story that could easily be imagined on the big screen." Cat Jones, Amazon Top 500 Reviewer
"It's clever [and] absolutely hilarious." Maria Barreto, Goodreads Top 50 Reviewer
"The Best Science Fiction Love Story of 2015." R. J. Kauffman, Panda Books Press
"This book holds WAY more than it appears to. I was satisfied, exhausted, inspired, and blown away." John J. Staughton, Editor of "Sheriff Nottingham" eLit Magazine
"Rich, Detailed, Fast-Paced, and Intelligent." Literary Picks
Kirkus Reviews
2015-09-03 In Orton's debut sci-fi novel, two star-crossed lovers attempt to save the world with sex. The prologue begins mid-apocalypse, "a few years from now," with the heroine, Isabel, trading her supplies for a gun in front of a ruined Wal-Mart in Colorado. The first half of the novel reveals how the world fell into its current state, starting with the day a mysterious metal sphere tore through downtown Denver. That's also the day Isabel divorced her husband and saw Diego, a former lover, for the first time in years. They instantly reconnected; the sphere nearly killed Isabel, Diego rescued her, and they wound up engaged by sundown. But in the series of nuclear and plague disasters that followed, the pair was soon separated again. Which is unfortunate, because it turns out the fate of the world depends on their being happily married. So with the help of an eclectic group of scientists and a time machine, Isabel sets out to save her relationship with Diego and, by extension, the world. Told from three different perspectives—Isabel, Diego, and one of the scientists, a British professor named Matt—the novel explores some promising sci-fi concepts, like parallel universes and time travel, but skips over these themes too quickly in favor of long, steamy, repetitive love scenes, especially in the second half. Isabel and Diego's relationship, despite being central to the novel, is poorly developed. The two don't appear to share anything except physical attraction and a proclivity for terrible, innuendo-laced puns (e.g., "Damn, you're hard to please"). Several mysterious characters introduced early in the book disappear, never to be mentioned again, although, since this is the first installment in a series, they may return in a sequel. Matt's over-the-top British narrative occasionally manages to be entertaining, and there are a few brief moments of suspense scattered throughout. But despite its apocalyptic aspirations, the novel is better suited to fans of paperback romance than time-travel sagas. Erotic fiction dressed—barely—as sci-fi.
