Andrew Cunningham (4)

Ray Burton was visiting Hollow Rock, a ghost town in Arizona when a sudden storm forced him to seek shelter in a nearby cave as his car was parked a full mile away. While waiting the storm to abate he finds an old chest which he opens. Inside the chest he discovers several mid 19th Century artifacts including a revolver, newspapers, money, and a smart phone with badly corroded batteries and a hand written note from Stan Hooper, born in 1970 but who later went missing, that says, “Funny show more that I’m going to die a hundred years before I was born.” Ray views this as an elaborate hoax, of course, but he takes the items anyway. He recovers the photos on the phone and still doesn’t believe anything may be amiss until he recognizes a photo of his great great great grandfather as a young man. He is the visited by some very serious men from the National Security Agency inquiring about a Stan Hooper.

As the story evolves it becomes evident that the cave he had sought shelter in contained one of several one-way time portals, this one to within a few months of 1870. Other portals existed and could be found with the assistance of Portal Finders but some went backwards in time, others forward, but none into the actual future of the original starting point in the 21st Century. It is possible, therefore, for someone who hit the portal in 2012 to arrive in Hollow Rock before someone who entered the portal in 1933.

An interesting spin to time travel novels. I truly enjoyed this one. Volume 1 of a 4 volume series, if you enjoy Science Fiction and want a slightly different theme, you might try this one out. show less