Second Time Around [Paperback]

Linda Kay Silva (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 27, 2009

Book Two in the amazing Across Time series is here--and they’re all back, Jessie Ferguson, Madame Ceara, Tanner, Cate and Maeve.

Jessie, who first stumbled upon a portal to the past in Across Time, reluctantly answers a call from an altogether different place and time--Elizabethan England--and to her consternation, she emerges to find herself incarnated as a male!

She’s Captain Spencer Morgan, trolling the seas in search of the same mysterious chest, unearthed from its Druid burial ground, that none other than Sir Francis Drake is hunting--a chest rumored to contain the greatest of treasures: the formula for the fabled transmutation of lead into gold. Jessie knows that the gold genie must remain in the bottle forever. But to achieve this she will have to best the great navigator Drake, outwit another relentless seeker, and, somehow, escape the lethal wrath of Drake’s formidable ally, the all-powerful Queen Elizabeth.

In helping Spencer seek something beyond riches--the soul he aches to find--Jessie will learn even more about herself and the deep responsibility she bears in her travels through time.

The Across Time series is splendid entertainment for young and old, and especially the adventurous of heart.

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 329 pages
• Publisher: Spinsters Ink (January 27, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1935226037
• ISBN-13: 978-1935226031
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #392,922 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I just published my twelfth novel titled When an Echo returns. My publisher is Bella/Spinster Books, who also publish my time travel series, Across Time.
I have been writing for 20 years. I wrote 4 horrid novels when I was younger...until someone asked me why I didn't write cop stories, since I had been one way back in the dark ages. I fought that urge, not being a mystery reader at the time and because police work was not a match for me. Instead, I took my Masters in English to education and I have been a teacher for the majority of my life. I prefer to touch young lives rather than arrest them. Nonetheless, one day, Delta Stevens sprang into my head, as well as my heart, and so I wrote. And wrote. And the next thing I knew...there she was, and there a publisher was, and there was the beginning of my writing career and my love of the irascible Delta Stevens. Like a love affair that sneaks up on you, Delta and her cast of characters came into my life, changing me forever. Perhaps it was Delta, maybe it was writing itself, but my life transformed dramatically.

Publishers have come and gone as the industry has changed dramatically. With Borders and Barnes and Nobles pushing out the smaller bookstores, smaller presses went with them...and so ended my publishers and Delta.
But I kept on writing...and now, I have published 10 novels in a variety of genres.

The Delta Stevens Mystery Series are now back in eBook format. You can purchase those from Bella Books as well.

Teaching & Traveling
Traveling also aids in my teaching world. I have been a teacher for 23 years, teaching everything from 4th grade to college, and I now teach at an American Military University online. I love teaching online, and teach everything from early American and British Lit, to Sci-Fi/Fantasy Lit, to World Lit.

When I'm not teaching, I am traveling all over the place, and just recently returned from a trip in Egypt, where I did research for the third in the Across Time series. Travel is my muse, and I see her as often as I can.
I guess, in short, I have a great time and a wonderful life, and I've told people that I want my headstone to read "She lived an enviable life." I guess that's what I want for the people I love...for them to live the kind of life they envision...to write if that's what they want, to be a farmer if that is the life for them...to do and be what they dream because I am living proof that dreams come true. After ten published novels, I have a new dream, and I'm making steps every day to make that one come true.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great sequel to Across Time, September 29, 2010

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Shirl (Bethesda, MD USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Second Time Around (Paperback)

This second book in Linda Kay Silva's Across Time series continues the adventures of Jessie and all the other characters we got to know in the first book. The author is masterful in creating interesting characters, detailed landscapes, exciting adventures, and thought-provoking ideas about everything from soul travel to ecology. Druids, pirates, time portals, what's not to like? I highly recommend this book and look forward to those to come.

5.0 out of 5 stars A Sequel Better than the Original, November 27, 2011

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E. A. Burnett "I am free because I know that ... (St Croix, USVI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Second Time Around (Kindle Edition)

I loved Across Time, I should state that upfront. But it was a teen novel more than anything else. I thought the characters were charming and well-developed, and the book was cute. I liked it enough to read the sequel. For a pleasant surprise, the sequel was actually even better than the original. Across Time was cute, but in Second Time Around, Jessie has grown up. She is no longer a teenager and she is taking charge of her own fate. Jessie is shifting in and out of time, trying again to save the past and therefore, the future. Second Time Around is no teen novel, it is a well-thought out, intelligent and engaging adult time travel/science fiction/fantasy/pagan novel. I loved this book and I really hope the publishers put the third one on Kindle soon.