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I've always loved time-travel stories, and particularly those about castaways in time, modern people stranded in the past.
The idea for the saga of the Islanders came to me on a moonlit beach on Nantucket. What if _this_ island were cast back in time to the remote past -- to 1250 BC? How would the people here, modern Americans like us, survive? How would they affect that distant, alien time and how would it affect them?
My wife and I honeymooned on Nantucket, and we vacation there every spring on our anniversary. But _that_ visit I spent pinned to my laptop, scrambling to get the scenes and characters down. After that came the most enjoyable writing and research of my career.
The result was ISLAND IN THE SEA OF TIME, and now the sequel, AGAINST THE TIDE OF YEARS.
They were very different from my previous work, and it was a struggle to find them a 'home'. Finally, ROC Books decided that the readers weren't going to be frightened off by something a little out of the ordinary in the way of adventure, and even gave me good covers!
The reader response has been a delight, and born out our hopes. (One has even set up a webpage devoted to the series, carrying sample chapters of AGAINST THE TIDE OF YEARS)
I hope you all enjoy exploring the world of the "Event" as much as I do, and the chronicle of Jared Cofflin, Marian Alston, and their friends... and enemies.
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The people of the island deal with this miraculous event and start to build a community. Jared Cofflin, the town Sheriff, is made Chief Executive of the small nation. Marian Alston, Captain of the Eagle, heads its armed forces, which everyone thought were not going to be necessary for a while. Then William Walker, a junior Coast Guard officer, steals a ship, weapons, and technology, and takes off for Bronze Age England to make himself king of the world. Nantucket raises an army, travels to England, and defeats him in battle, though he escapes to the mainland with his small group of evil rebels.
In AGAINST THE TIDE OF YEARS, it is eight years later. The fledgling Republic of Nantucket(RON) has achieved economic stability and is pushing into the American continent, while maintaining close relations with the Fiernan and the Sun People of the British Isles. Walker has traveled to Greece, where he's become a favorite noble of King Agamemnon. As Walker's political and military power grows, it becomes clear he's preparing for a war of conquest. The Republic of Nantucket decides it's time to stop their wayward sociopath, even if it means war.
Thus a series of global conflicts begins, in which RON establishes a treaty with Babylon takes part in the siege of Troy, in which Nantucket defends itself on the ground and on the high seas in a pitched naval battle.
The brother-sister team of Kathryn and Kenneth Hollard, career soldiers both, are dispatched to Babylon to offer military aid and instruction. They find themselves quickly mired in a full-scale war as well as the political intrigue of Babylon itself.
While the fighting and the strategy is interesting, the best parts of the book are the living characters who inhabit its heart. Marian Alston and her Fiernan lover Swindapa are complex people. Loving parents, excellent soldiers, deeply committed, and just plain fun. William Walker is a depraved portrait of evil. The truly chilling thing about him is his humanity--he loves his children, he takes care of his people. If he weren't a mass-murdering sociopath, he'd almost be likeable.
As you can tell, AGAINST THE TIDE OF YEARS is a bit complex; it is also a delight for anyone who has ever studied history, for anyone who enjoys a good love story, for anyone who enjoys military strategy, and for anyone who likes a good book. I can't recommend it enough.
--Marshall Moseley
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