Regression (Book One: Infinion Series) [Kindle Edition]

Kathy Bell (Author)

Book Description

Fourteen-year-old Adya Jordan wakes after a terrible accident with memories of another life...and echoes of even more. Was the family and husband all a dream, or did she really die in 2011 and begin all over again in 1985?

As Adya searches for answers, she encounters the Three Eleven Corporation. The leaders of this powerful global entity share her recollections of past lives, but not her philosophy about the world they are trying desperately to save from a future disaster. The company is trying to remedy future mistakes with past actions, but might not be changing the right things to prevent the fall of humanity.

Stuck in a desolate future, scientist Nicholas Weaver is forced to watch Adya replay the past again and again as he labors alone to save the world from the disaster he has lived over and over. Is this the time they finally get it right and save the woman he loves? If not, does he have the will to try again?


Book One of the Infinion Trilogy, Regression was an Amazon Bestseller, in the Science Fiction and Fantasy bestseller top 100 for 28 days as a new release, peaking at #17


Visit author Kathy Bell's Amazon Authorcentral page at: http://www.amazon.com/Kathy-Bell/e/B002CLSNQI/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0

Editorial Reviews

Review

The past, present and future meet in Kathy Bell's debut novel, Regression. Bell, who was born in a small Ontario town on the shores of Lake Huron, is an Owen Sound teacher, and, when she is not in the classroom, a novelist. I puzzled over this one, testing my disbelief as I always do when approaching speculative fiction. At first, I found Adya Jordan's time regression a bit hard to take but then I sank into the story, a time shaping novel about a mysterious corporation, Three Eleven, out to change the world. Laced with dialogue that races the story on, Regression shows a clever use of plot, time changes and an inventive mind that all add up to a surprise - a wellcrafted work of futuristic fiction. --Andrew Armitage, Book Editor, Owen Sound Sun Times

Adya Jordan, a forty-year-old mother of six, injured in a terrible car accident, awakens to find herself in her fourteen-year-old body once again. Consumed with grief over being separated from her family, she tries to live like a normal teenager. That's when she begins to notice that things are slightly different than they were the first time around; all minor things that when put together add up to major differences. Adya is offered an opportunity to join the ranks of the most powerful people in the world, an opportunity of a lifetime, making her the envy of most. She seizes it without hesitation, as anyone else would. However soon, she discovers that something will go terribly wrong in the future. With time running out on the human race, it's up to her to make the most powerful people in the world see the truth and change course before its too late. Kathy Bell has done a fair share of research for this book and it shows. As science comes to life inside the dialogue and plot in her novel, it became easy to suspend disbelief in the possibility of humans traveling Interdimensionally. All told, Regression was an enjoyable read with fully developed characters and enough plot twists to keep me turning the pages long after dark-thirty in the morning. --Amazon.com Review

About the Author

Mother of four, high school science teacher, enterpreneur, and an active community member, Kathy Bell draws upon these wide and varied experiences to populate her novel with compelling, believable characters.

Product Details

• File Size: 487 KB
• Print Length: 352 pages
• Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0981289606
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Publisher: Northern Sanctum Press; 1st edition (September 9, 2009)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B002U829RW
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #280,214 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

28 of 29 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Stunning Debut! July 20, 2009

By Gerry Dailey

Format:Paperback

In a stunning first novel, Kathy Bell introduces a future apocalypse but offers a possible and radically innovative solution to the end of mankind as we know it.

Adya Davies, a 40-year-old mother of six children, awakes in a hospital bed, in another version of her fourteen-year-old body, but with all her memories of her husband and children and former life intact. In an attempt to navigate the world of her fourteen-year-old self, she discovers painful and strange connections to a different future from the one she remembers.

Entering a world of world-class scientists striving to save the world from the oncoming disaster, Adya discovers her unique role in humanity's future.

Kathy Bell makes her scientific premise understandable and believable, even to a reader with no scientific background. What's even better is her ability to make you care enormously for Adya as she struggles to find her place in this version of her world, while mourning her family's loss in another life.

Bell doesn't answer all the questions raised in Regression; she leaves some for the second in her planned trilogy. Welcome, Kathy Bell to the world of scifi!

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting time-travel/alternate history November 4, 2009

By James

Format:Paperback

Regression takes an interesting twist on time-travel -- people's consciousnesses are sent back in time to their young selves and they are "old souls" in young bodies, some several times. This is done in response to some epic, pending crisis around 2011 in the hopes of saving off the disaster.

The book is entertaining and well-written, with an innovative premise. I very much enjoyed it.

The main characters (the regresses) make some logical leaps that seem a little odd and seem strangely foolish in some ways (not working together, being jerks, etc) until Adya comes along to show them how it's done.

The book also posits that one company (formed by these regresses with technology from the future) largely controls the distribution of most high technology in a utopian/utilitarian way. The idea has some merit but seems unrealistic in light of an uncooperative/competitive world.

A good book, well worth reading. I look forward to the next book.

Jim

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Slightly scary premise July 19, 2009

By Betty K VINE™ VOICE

Format:Paperback

This is certainly an interesting premise although just a little scary. A middle-aged married woman with seven children is badly hurt in an automobile accident. She awakens in a hospital to find she is once again only fourteen and the adult life she remembers has all been a dream. As she struggles to fit into her life once more as a teenager, strange and ominous things begin to happen to her. She meets others who seem to understand her predicament and later, others who have experienced the same regression. Together they search for the purpose of the regressions and how they could be of benefit to stopping a disaster from destroying civilization.

This strange and haunting story is well handled by the author. She has obviously done a great deal of research on the subject and the technical wording regarding the divergence of time lines sound very authentic. She also does a good job of weaving details from the dream life and comparing them with the reality. In reading this novel, I got the impression it would make an excellent sci-fi movie. Will be watching for that.

More About the Author

Working on the new series!

The new profile picture shows me at the entrance to Xibalba, the Mayan Underworld. Trent and I went to Belize to research places and experiences for my new novel, Synergy 2012:Return to Magic. It is an urban fantasy.

Biography

Born in 1971, I've called the Georgian Bay and Lake Huron area home for my entire life - minus the years at university. Even so, I found books a wonderful way to travel through time and around the world.

I live in my dream house on 60 acres with an amazing view of the city skyline in one direction and the sheer cliffs of the Niagara Escarpment in the other. I was only able to start writing after checking off most other things on the to-do list of my life: marry high school sweetheart (check); get an awesome career as a high school teacher(check); have four wonderful kids (check); build my dream home (check); be a successful entrepreneur (check); breed Canada's top winning bulldog (check); get a herd of horses (check). Suddenly, I found myself inspired to begin writing after a break of more than twenty years - when I was in high school I wrote short stories which never made it past my journal binders. I still have both.

Regression was conceived in the middle of the night, one hand cradling a fussy baby while the other pecked at the keyboard - you can only surf the internet for so long! I feel it is a reflection of the many roles I have had in my life, and the observations of human nature accumulated through those roles.