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Monday, May 3, 2021

BOOK TOUR & GIVEAWAY ~ Time's Relative by Debbie DeLouise

Time's Relative

by Debbie DeLouise

Genre: Time Travel Thriller

It’s the fall of 1998, and librarian Samantha Stewart is looking for a new job. After seeing an ad for a high-paying position at a company called Virtual Software that entails research and travel, Sam investigates the company and learns that its president has gone missing, and that it’s currently being run by the vice-president Greg Parsons.

Before Sam makes it to the interview, she's visited by a strange woman who introduces herself as Jane Oldsfield: a time traveler whose mission Greg Parsons is trying to prevent.

Sam ignores the woman and goes on the job interview anyway. Soon, she finds herself involved not only with Greg Parsons, but also Philip Montmart, a chain-smoking detective with a vendetta for his wife’s killer, and the time-traveling Oldsfield and her feline accomplice.

Witnessing world events that have yet to happen in her lifetime, including 9/11, Hurricane Sandy, Y2K hysteria and the COVID pandemic, can Samantha figure out Oldsfield's plans?

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Parsons steepled his fingers together as she’d seen him do on the previous visit when he was considering what to say. “The description of the job in the ad I placed was correct. I need someone who has a background in history and enough knowledge of software to help me stop Miss Oldsfield from what she’s attempting. That will involve extensive travel, but not the kind I think you expected.”
“You want me to go back in time?” As ridiculous as the proposition sounded, Sam couldn’t help but betray the fear in her voice.
“Or forward. The time travel component is capable of transporting someone up to twelve months into the future and anytime into the past.” Parsons paused as if to give himself as well as Sam a chance to digest that information. Then he opened the center drawer of his desk and extracted an identical time travel disk to the one Jane Oldsfield had in Sam’s apartment.
Sam gasped as she recognized the object. She fought to retain her control. “I still don’t believe this, but if what you’re saying is true, what am I supposed to do in these time periods?”
Parsons placed the disk in the center of his desk partway between him and Sam. “That will all be covered in the training. I won’t expect you to take your first trip for at least a month. Basically, your job will be to find and deactivate or destroy Foundation Markers.”
Now Sam felt as if she’d moved from a spy adventure to a science fiction epic. “What are Foundation Markers?” she asked.
“They’re another term for the time-travel disks that reflect their function to lock in coordinates into real-time mode. In non-technical jargon that means that, placed in the correct location on the correct date, a dozen Foundation Markers or Time-Travel disks, will enable the stabilization necessary for anyone to travel to any time period in history anywhere in the world. The consequences of creating such a tool would make the atom bomb’s inventor uneasy not to mention the ethical ramifications of being able to change time at one’s will.”

Debbie De Louise is an award-winning author and a reference librarian at a public library on Long Island. She is a member of International Thriller Writers, Sisters-in-Crime, and the Cat Writer’s Association. She has a BA in English and an MLS in Library Science from Long Island University. Her seven published novels include the 4 books of her Cobble Cove cozy mystery series: A Stone's Throw, Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Written in Stone, and Love on the Rocks, her paranormal romance, Cloudy Rainbow, her mystery thriller Reason to Die, and her latest psychological mystery, Sea Scope. She also published a romantic comedy novella featuring a jewel heist caper, When Jack Trumps Ac. Debbie has also written articles and short stories for several anthologies of various genres. She is currently querying agents to represent the first book of a new cozy mystery series. She lives on Long Island with her husband, daughter, and three cats.

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