Time Lottery (Time Lottery Series #1) [Paperback]

Nancy Moser (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 2002

What if you had a chance to go back in time and relive one decisive moment that changed the course of your life? Now, there is a way: The Time Lottery. The result of 22 years of scientific research, it's finally ready for the public. Three winners of this unique marriage between marketing and time-travel technology ear the chance to travel back into their alternate reality-their Alternity-to relive one moment they've always wished they could change..to revisit that what-if question that plagues them. But when one man murders a Time Lottery winner then takes his place, another tries to collect life insurance on his wife who's now in the past, and the police clamor to shut down the whole enterprise, it's time God to get involved. Or maybe He's been in on this whole thing from the beginning, using it for His own redemptive purposes all along the way...

Editorial Reviews

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"Time Lottery" is a memorable character novel dealing with the lifelong repercussions of good and bad choices . . . and God’s sovereignty. -- Kathy Tyers, author

I want to read it again to catch all the twist and turns with the past, present and connecting lives. -- A reader from Nebraska

Time Lottery is that rare read: a book that makes you take stock of how you're living your life. -- Colleen Coble, author

Who wouldn't want to go back in time and take another shot at some of those roads-not-taken? Highly recommended! -- Randall Ingermanson, author

You got me thinking about my own life. What an idea! I love your characters and dialogue. -- A reader from Oregon

Book Description

If you could go back in time, what would you change? After winning the Time Lottery, there people will answer that question for themselves. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Incorporated (August 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1586605879
• ISBN-13: 978-1586605872
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,404,372 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Nancy Moser is the award-winning author of over twenty novels that focus on the characters discovering their unique purpose. Her genres include both contemporary and historical stories. Her latest release "An Unlikely Suitor" was named to Booklist's "Top 10 Romance Novels of 2011". Both "An Unlikely Suitor" and "Masquerade" are set in the Gilded Age of New York City (see a book trailer for "Masquerade" below.) Coming out in 2012 is a Christmas/Quilt antholgy,"A Patchwork Christmas", containing three novellas by Moser, Stephanie Grace Whitson, and Judith Miller. Moser's contemporary books are known for their big-cast utilization of multiple points-of-view and intricate plotting. Some titles are "John 3: 16", "The Sister Circle", "The Good Nearby", and "The Invitation." Her historical bio-novels allow real women-of-history to share their life stories: "Just Jane" (Jane Austen), "Mozart's Sister" (Nannerl Mozart), "Washington's Lady" (Martha Washington) and "How Do I Love Thee?" (Elizabeth Barrett Browning.) Her time-travel novel, "Time Lottery", won a Christy Award and "Washington's Lady" was a finalist. Nancy and her husband Mark live in the Midwest. She's earned a degree in architecture, traveled extensively in Europe, and has performed in numerous theaters, symphonies, and choirs. She gives Said So Sister Seminars around the country, helping women identify their gifts as they celebrate their sisterhood. She paints canes voraciously, kills all her houseplants, and can wire an electrical fixture without getting shocked. She is a fan of anything antique--humans included. Find out more at www.nancymoser.com, www.sistercircles.com. and her historical fiction blog at: http://footnotesfromhistory.blogspot.com/

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The chance to go back in time..., December 18, 2002

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Cindy Swanson (Rockford, Illinois) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Time Lottery (Time Lottery Series #1) (Paperback)

Alexander MacMillan...successful Hollywood image maker who happens to be a born-again believer...is still reeling from the senseless killing of his beloved wife, when he gets a job offer he can't refuse: publicist for a scientific corporation that has found a way to go back in time. The bait: after a national lottery in which three people will get a chance to return to a time in their personal histories,Mac will get his own chance to do so...a chance to prevent his wife's murder.

"Time Lottery," by Nancy Moser (Promise Press,2002) explores the idea of time travel with a spiritual and scriptural twist.

The three people the lottery falls to are very different. Dr. Cheryl Nickolby is a beautiful,successful surgeon who has spent most of her life trying to exercise her control over men through a near-promiscuous lifestyle. Pheobe Thurgood is the unhappy,unfulfilled wife of a wealthy but unscrupulous businessman. Roosevelt Hazen is an elderly former preacher who has somehow ended up homeless and on the streets.

Hazen never gets his chance,though. A homeless lifelong con-artist named Leon Burke sees his opportunity to impersonate Hazen and seizes it through nefarious means.

The three lottery winners will get to go back to a specific point in their lives...an "alternate reality" that scientists believe is actually existing out there somewhere,parallell to our own "real" lives. Alexander MacMillan explains the Time Lottery experience in his role as publicist for the Time Travel Corporation: "...after exploring the way their life could have been for one week,they will be given the ultimate choice. During one hour of total clarity,they will be able to assess both alternatives: the way their life played out the first time,and the way it played out through the miracle of the Time Lottery. They will get to choose betwen staying in the past--continuing their life with the consequences of their new choice--or returning to their place in the present with a life made richer from the experience."

Cheryl goes back to her senior year in high school, determined to forge a "committed" relationship with the high school basketball star she used to admire from afar. Phoebe heads back to 1969,when her cad of a husband,Colin,first became her boss. Leon find himself back in the early 60's, when he first met a young,dedicated preacher named...Roosevelt Hazen.

What will they do differently? What spiritual lessons will they learn? Will they choose to stay in the past,or come back to the present,armed with new knowledge that will help them change their present lives for the better? And will Mac go back in time to try to stop his wife's murder?

Few books can really be characterized as "page-turners," but I found this one was. I've always been fascinated with time travel,and author Nancy Moser's handling of the subject causes it to come off as believable rather than far-fetched. The idea of being able to go back in one's own past and possibly right some wrongs is also a compelling one.

The story moves along effortlessly with the help of Moser's crisp,clean writing style and characters that spring to life on the page. Scenes switch frequently among the storylines,never giving the reader a chance to get bored.

As always in her books,Moser includes plenty of scripture and scriptural applications without being preachy or schmaltzy. The three Time Lottery winners are each faced with their need for Jesus Christ,whatever their "reality." And that's something we will all have to face....now or later.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Time travel with a Christian message--unique!, May 31, 2004

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Jackie Tortorella - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Time Lottery (Time Lottery Series #1) (Paperback)

I love taking a mental time travel trip and feel I've read most of the genre. I had just finished Thrice Upon a Time by James Hogan--a very theoretical hard science look at communication across time. Time lottery was kind of an opposite--light reading from the technical aspect, not believable or even plausible, and very short on theory. What this book offered was something very different. The story line dealt with the common regrets that fallible humans accrue in life, and the question of what would you do if you could go back to a pivotal time in your life and choose a different course. I feel that this theme would appeal to most people--who hasn't wished to have made a different choice somewhere along the line? Four diverse characters are main players. Their individual experiences with a "second chance" are chronicled well. All three time travelers have interesting stories and choices to make. The fourth main character is the marketing directer who is to be the next "traveler" after the initial three make their decision to either return to the present or stay in their new time line. The characterization is excellent. Woven into their very interesting situations is a Christian undercurrent that becomes the main "message" of the book. Each chapter begins with an appropriate Bible quote. There are some very valuable lessons in this book, and the author conveys them in a most entertaining manner by using some compelling characters and situations with which we can all identify. Clearly the author's intent was to impart an important message. She succeeded brilliantly. The powerful stories guarantee that the message will not be forgotten. Bravo!

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Definitely worth a read, March 22, 2003

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Donna B. "Shorter than a To Be Read stack!" (Raleigh, NC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Time Lottery (Time Lottery Series #1) (Paperback)

I love time travel novels.

Time Lottery follows three characters as they are given the opportunity to enter another dimension and relive a portion of their past. At the end of their 7-day experience, they are given the choice to remain in the other dimension and forget this life (their body in this reality will die) or return to this reality. One of the characters has a story that makes it apparent from the outset that the choice will be to remain. All three characters make new choices - some of them very small choices at the time - that forever change how they perceive themselves, their lives, and their place in God's world.

An enjoyable read that leaves you satisfied.