In October 1968, teenager Denise Reid falls asleep one evening just like every night. So does, in October, 2012, Taylor Williams, also 17 years old.
In the morning, they discover they exchanged personalities.
Denise wakes up in 2012, in Taylor's body. Taylor now occupies Denise's body and time.
Each must learn to cope with the forty-four year-switch. And each attends a presidential campaign speech central to a European billionaire's plot to destroy the United States.
His plan? Assassinate presidential candidate Richard Nixon in 1968 and President Obama, running for reelection, in 2012. Only Denise and Taylor stand between him and success, but how can two teenaged girls stop the armed killers?
To Denise, 2012 and cell phones, personal computers, and $6 per gallon gasoline come straight out of an episode of The Jetsons.
To Taylor, 1968 feels like a museum come to life. The pink Princess telephone won't work unless plugged into the wall. Typewriters. Clothes either too demure or too outlandish.
However, her high school teachers horrify Denise the worst. They criticize the United States more than the hippies of her time. Teachers! And the students agree!
But not all. Soon she meets Andre, who writes the blog the Voice of Young Black Republicans. She doesn't know a blog from Wi-Fi, but he answers her many questions. He takes her to a meeting of a conservative. He doesn't know an inner circle of the group, manipulated by an agent of the European billionaire, plans to meet President Obama's upcoming campaign speech with bullets instead of protest signs.
Taylor hates Denise's annoying boyfriend, but comes to rely on the hippie Georgie. He helps her find the ancient library book that promises to send her back to 2012.
Georgie also tells Taylor of the Black Cougars' plan -- also caused by manipulation by the European billionaire -- to assassinate Richard Nixon when he makes a campaign speech.
Taylor thinks it's not her problem until Georgie convinces her Nixon's death by assassination in 1968 would plunge the United States into violence and chaos . . . that would inevitably change 2012 as she (and we) know it.
Georgie proclaims himself a lover, not a fighter, and he won't stand by and watch his country overrun by hate.
And Taylor loves Georgie.
How can the two teenage girls, in shock from time travel lag, stop two presidential level assassions separated by forty-four years?
And what happens when they must return to their own years?
In this teenage adventure fiction, two teenage girls battle ruthless men determined to carry out the crimes of two centuries. An unusual young adult time travel adventure and romance.
Two presidential level assassinations that don't occur in history as we now know it -- but young adult time travel political thriller, a powerful, wealthy man plans to change that. He hates history as we know it, because the United States remains strong.
Genre: JUVENILE FICTION / Science FictionIt's also available as a paper edition through CreateSpace.
"So you think I'm crazy?"
"Look, let's be scientific. There are two explanations for what you're telling me. One -- you really are a girl named Taylor from 2012 who somehow has switched bodies and times with Denise."
"That's the truth."
"Two -- or you have a split personality or something. You know, like in THE THREE FACES OF EVE. There's medicine for you, doctors who can help you."
Taylor's shoulders dropped. "If you won't believe me, nobody will."
"Who's going to win the election, Nixon or Humphrey?"
"How the hell should I know?"
"If you're from 2012, you should know."
"I'm just now taking American history class. We've barely started learning about the Revolution, let alone the twentieth century. But I do remember hearing one thing."
"What's that?"
"Nixon quit the presidency. So I guess he'll be the winner, because he couldn't quit if he didn't win first."
"And then he quits?"
"Something about a scandal."
"Wow, far out. What about the war in Vietnam?"
"That was too long ago. I only know about Iraq and Afghanistan."
"You mean we've invaded two other countries?"
"The news people say those wars are like Vietnam, except in the desert."
"Does everybody fly around like the Jetsons? What about bases on Mars?"
Taylor shook her head. "We went to the moon a long time ago, but not for many years. There's space stations in orbit. That's all I know."
"Come on, we've got to be on Mars by 2012. We're almost to the moon now."
"Sorry."
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Author review: Works quickly and professionally. I highly recommend. |
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Author review: Laura translated a full book quickly and conscientiously. She corrected a former translator's title translation. High recommend. |
