Time's Enemy (Saturn Society) [Kindle Edition]

Jennette Marie Powell (Author)

Book Description

One unwanted gift. One great wrong. One chance to make things right...

Tony Solomon never wanted to be a time traveler. But when a freak accident gifts him with the ability to travel in time, he becomes an unwilling initiate in the Saturn Society, a secret society of time travelers. Determined to prevent his daughter's murder three years earlier, he violates the Society's highest law and becomes a fugitive. But the Society refuses to tell Tony how to time-travel within his own life, so he seeks help from Charlotte, the woman whose life he saved during a prior trip to the past.

When Tony arrives in 1933 looking for answers, Charlotte is both thrilled and terrified to see her childhood hero. Loyal to the Society, she is honor-bound to bring to justice those who manipulate time for their own gain. In giving him sanctuary, she faces a terrible choice-condemn the man she loves and to whom she owes her life, or deny her deepest convictions by helping him escape and risk sharing his sentence.

 

"Fast-paced, exciting, and well-grounded in history, it's a real page-turner!"
- Ann W. Bain
 
"...a romance, and (also) a solid science fiction thriller. The time travel has rules and consequences. December is not soon enough for part 2."
- Jim Winter
 
"A New Travel Tale: Not Just For The Ladies."
- Melanie Rohman 

Time's Enemy is 120,000 words (350-400 pages in a mass-market paperback).
BONUS: Includes Chapter One of Time's Fugitive, Saturn Society Book 2.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"I could not put it down. The characters were clear and well-drawn. The popping in and out of eras and changes...failed to confuse me. That says a lot for the skill of the author."
- Maggie, Reviewer for Coffee Time Romance and More

 

"Time's Enemy is not your typical time travel romance. It... gives it a science fiction edge, taking the reader on a page turning journey... take The Butterfly Effect, mix in The Time Traveler's Wife, and sprinkle it with Somewhere in Time, and you'll get this amazing book.
- Lori Reader & Writer, The Otherworld Diner

 

"...so many little historical touches that I began to wonder if the author could describe them so well because she had slipped back into the past herself."
- Michele Stegman, author of Mr. Right's Baby and Fortune's Pride

 

"...a wonderfully-paced book that brings all the best parts of Inception, Jumpers, and old-school time-travel romances... a well-researched, exciting adventure through time in Dayton, Ohio, and a fascinating, unputdownable story rich in action, romance, and history."
- Jen Sokoloski

Product Details

• File Size: 632 KB
• Print Length: 364 pages
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Publisher: Mythical Press (August 10, 2011)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B005GVDMKS
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Not Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #130,577 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Time Travel with a twist! August 16, 2011

By Sheri L. McGathy

Format:Kindle Edition

Time travel can be tricky, especially when you don't know what you're doing as evidenced by one of Time's Enemy's main character, Tony Solomon. First, he falls from a Mayan pyramid and for all practical purposes, dies. Yet, somehow, he is brought back, only to slip into time and literally lose his head as a Mayan sacrifice. As soon as he dies, he's snapped back to the present. Far more confused and now sporting a very thick scar around his neck! And no one seems to notice that time has altered or remade itself.

Now, if discovering you can travel backwards in time isn't nerve-wracking enough, enter The Saturn Society, the educator/protector of time travelers through time. They will protect you, provide you safe haven as you travel, but there's a catch to membership. They also will hunt you down as an enemy of time if you break their rules.

Which, of course, Tony is determined to break.

Time's Enemy by Jennette Marie Powell is a fascinating read. Though time travel romance, and time travel novels in general have been around for a long time, Ms. Powell manages to bring to the genre a fresh face and an adventure that I find inventive. I don't think you'll be disappointed!

Sheri L. McGathy, author of Promises and other fantasy works

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars A Great Read November 26, 2011

By Ann W. Bain

Format:Paperback

Although I had never read a time-travel novel before, I had seen the movie, "Inception". Time's Enemy is every bit as gripping a story. Fast-paced, exciting, and well-grounded in history, it's a real page-turner! The author's research is impeccable, and since I live in Dayton, Ohio, the story's setting, I was impressed with that. It's good to know that a follow-up, Time's Fugitive, is on the way!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars More Than a Typical Time Travel Romance November 21, 2011

By Lori reader & writer

Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase

Time travel romance usually goes like this: a man or woman, through some mechanism, magic or device, travels back in time or into the future. Once they get there, they usually stay there for the duration of the book, learning to deal with their new circumstances and falling in love with someone from that time period along the way.

TIME'S ENEMY is not your typical time travel romance. It takes this general premise and gives it a science fiction edge, taking the reader on a page turning journey. Put it this way, if you take THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT, mix in THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE and sprinkle it with SOMEWHERE IN TIME, you'll get this amazing book.

Time Travel Paradox
Powell uses this principle with deft skill and it's the thing that makes this story shine. Any change in history, no matter how minor, can have dire consequences in the present/future. Every time Tony goes back in time, he does something (often unintentional) to alter history and when he returns, his present is altered because of it. It's when he goes back in time to deliberately change the past that the Saturn Society steps in. He broke the rules and he must be stopped. Now he finds himself on the run, in the present and the past.

Not Your Typical Romance
Most romances have the hero and heroine meet within the first couple of chapters of the book. Not so here. The romance between Tony and Charlotte doesn't even get started until the middle of the book. That's a long time to wait in romance-land, but experiencing Tony's journey getting there was well worth it. I love how the author portrays his confusion and desperation when he starts time traveling. He doesn't understand what's happening, he's scared and disoriented, and has no control over where and when he goes (at least in the beginning).

Not Perfect, but Close
As I said before, I thought this was a page turner of a book. But it's not without its flaws. There are a few points in the middle where the pacing drags in comparison to the fast paced beginning and ending; one chapter makes use of short, choppy scene breaks which bothered me; and the author has an affinity for using parentheses throughout the narrative, which was a bit jarring. I use them a lot myself (as you can tell), just not in my fiction writing. But these flaws were minor, and didn't diminish the enjoyment of the book.

What Makes This A Perfect Indie Book
I'm pretty sure I know why this book didn't sell to the NY Big 6. It's a mix of romance, sci-fi, and paranormal fiction. I'm guessing editors and agents loved it, but just didn't know how to market it. Like many indie books, this one didn't fit in the tidy NY box, but it's definitely one you don't want to miss.

More About the Author

Jennette Marie Powell is the author of several time travel and paranormal romance novels. A lifelong resident of the Dayton, Ohio area, she likes to dig beneath the surface and find the extraordinary beneath the mundane, whether in people, places, or historical events. While she has no desire to change the past, she enjoys learning about local history, particularly the early 20th century. Her preferred places to time travel are from her computer or Dayton's Carillon Historical Park. By day, she wrangles data and websites in between excursions to search for the aliens and spacecraft that legends say are stashed away on the military base where she works.

Jennette lives with her husband, daughter, two Rottweilers, and assorted small critters. When not working or writing, she enjoys spending time with her family, learning about local history, classic cars, and riding her Harley.

Visit Jennette at www.jenpowell.com