Actor Harrison Ford once said, We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second c

Actor Harrison Ford once said, We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance. It s hard to argue with that. Who hasn t experienced a big change in their life that amounted to an opportunity to set things right?
At age 48 in 2010, Michelle is a widow – a widow with regrets. As she stands over her entrepreneur husband s grave, she thinks about the college she never attended, the career she never pursued, and the children she never had. She yearns for the simpler life of her youth, before she abandoned her dreams charter bus tours lexington kentucky and followed her high school sweetheart down a road that led to limitless riches but little fulfillment.
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Many time travel stories are set in distant times, such as the 1700s or the Dark Ages or even earlier. Ray Bradbury s short story, A Sound of Thunder, is set in prehistoric times, when dinosaurs roamed the planet. In his novella The Time Machine , author H.G. Wells takes readers far into the future – to the year 802701 A.D.
I sent my protagonist back a few decades, rather than centuries, or millennia, for a reason. I wanted Michelle Richardson to have the opportunity to directly affect her own fate. Like Joel Smith in my first novel, The Mine , Michelle has a chance to alter recent history. Unlike Joel, she makes the most of that chance, and in the process remakes the lives of friends, family, even herself.
But as Stephen King illustrated vividly in 11/22/63 , even well-intentioned meddling by a time traveler can bring about unpleasant and unforeseen consequences. Michelle quickly discovers the downside of rewriting history. Even the most seemingly benign and cautious actions can carry a steep price.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR John A. Heldt is a reference librarian who lives and works in Montana. The former award-winning sportswriter and newspaper editor has loved reading and writing since writing book reports on baseball heroes in grade school. A graduate of both the University of Oregon and University of Iowa, he is an avid fisherman, charter bus tours lexington kentucky sports fan, home brewer, charter bus tours lexington kentucky and reader of thrillers and historical fiction. THE MINE is his first novel.
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