The Time Star
by Georgina Lee
Blurb:
While snowmobiling, Waneeta Meadows finds the steaming remains of a meteorite. She reaches for it, and in the blink of an eye, all she has ever known is gone.
Thomas Stafford has escaped to the wilderness to rethink his life, not realizing that the young woman in the strange suit banging on his cabin door will change it for him. But when they search out the truth of her arrival, the unthinkable happens.
Can love span the stretches of time and space? Or will their lives be nothing but a footnote in a journal lost in time?
Excerpt: The Time Star
Chapter 1
“HEY! WHAT’S THAT THING?”
At the sound of her cousin’s sharp tone, Waneeta Meadows jerked up from adjusting her helmet in the headlight of her ancient Skidoo. “Where?”
Kevin Meadows pointed eastward. The Ontario night was as clear and in the openness of the winter-bare trees, it wasn’t hard to spot what Kevin saw skimming low in the deep and dark horizon. Like a brilliant star, it twinkled, but with reddish-orange flares radiating away, it was also growing. Fast.
As fast as the seconds that raced by.
With a curse word, Kevin leapt onto the seat of his Skidoo. “It’s heading this way! Let’s get out of here!” With a rev on the accelerator, he disappeared down the snowmobile trail.
“Kevin!” Waneeta called as the sounds melted into the night. That kid! Kevin may be 18, but he acted 12. To hell with him. She wasn’t going to speed to catch up with him. Waneeta shoved on her helmet as her eyes lifted. Oh, wow! The eastern sky was totally aglow and whatever-
In the next blink of an eye, it barreled past, so close she could feel its heat. A shower of sparks chased after the explosion. She felt the fireworks rain down on her. Several hit her neck. Hundreds pricked and burned her new Skidoo suit, some jabbing through like needles. Immediately, Waneeta ducked, but the reaction couldn’t be stopped. She dived over the dark vinyl seat and into the soft, late winter snow.
The fireball found its mark. The earth shook, growling as though a freight train rumbled past. She crouched, afraid to breath, not sure if she had died by whatever it was that raced past.
The roar choked abruptly, leaving only the quiet spits as sparks met their ends in the damp snow somewhere deeper in the forest.
Waneeta craned her neck to peek over her Skidoo’s handlebars, through the headlight’s dim beam. Her gaze found a thin line of glowing smoke fingering into the still, starry night. She stood there, then, with cautious steps, she peered into the hole.
Understanding dawned on her. It had to have been a meteorite! Through the trees in front of her, its sputters and sizzles like bacon on a hot griddle. The Skidoo headlight glowed through the steam rising from the foot wide, wet crater.
As it cooled, she craned her neck upward. Beyond her position, a huge cloud of white sparks was quickly dissipating in the wintry sky. Focusing back on the ground in front, Waneeta pushed back some wayward branches until she had a clear view of the steaming hole. Then, wetting her lips, she pulled her thick gloves on more snugly and reached down for the rock.
The headlight behind her dimmed. The engine died. Queasiness then washed over Waneeta. Her stomach rolled, overwhelming her. She reached for her Skidoo’s handlebars, hoping that would ease the nausea. But it was too powerful, and her right hand released the rock giving way to a blackening sense of fainting.
Purchase Link(s):
https://www.amazon.com/Time-Star-Travel-novella-ebook/dp/B0065LHVVE
Author Bio:
Georgina Lee is the pen name for Barbara Phinney when she is writing pure fantasy romances, time travels and mysteries. When the evil Georgina isn’t plotting to embarrass Barbara, she’s living in eastern Canada with her husband and barn cats to help fill her empty nest.
If you would like to contact her, her email address is GeorginaLee@azotus.co.uk.
Author Links:
https://barbphinney.blogspot.com/
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