WARNING TO POTENTIAL READERS
THIS NOVEL CONTAINS GRAPHIC DESCRIPTIONS OF WAR, VIOLENCE AND SEX AS WELL AS COARSE LANGUAGE AND CONTROVERSIAL SUBJECTS UNSUITABLE FOR CHILDREN. WHILE THIS NOVEL DEPICTS MANY HISTORICAL PERSONS AND EVENTS FROM THE PAST, THIS IS A WORK OF FICTION AND WORDS OR DEEDS ATTRIBUTED IN IT TO PERSONS WHO EXISTED DO NOT REFLECT HISTORICAL EVENTS AND ONLY DESCRIBE ALTERNATE HISTORICAL SCENARIOS. RELIGION-RELATED EVENTS DEPICTED IN THIS NOVEL IN NO WAY REFLECT THE RELIGIOUS BELIEFS OF THE AUTHOR.
ABOUT THIS NOVEL
This novel is the sixth installment in a collection of novels depicting the adventures through time of members of the Time Patrol, an organization originating from the 34th Century. It was originally meant to be the last novel of the series but, with the draft’s length growing to near unmanageable level, I decided to split the draft in two. TIMELINE TWIN will thus be followed by TO THE SANDS OF MARS, which will become in effect the last novel of the collection. Those novels should be treated strictly as novels about alternate realities and historical fiction. The year in the dates shown in the headings are followed by the letters ‘A’, ‘B’ or ‘C’, denoting in which timeline the action is happening. Timeline ‘A’ is the original historical line, while Timeline ‘B’ is a parallel alternate history created accidentally by Nancy Laplante when she was transported against her will from 2012 to the year 1940 and changed history by her actions. Timeline ‘C’ is a second parallel history created from 1941 ‘B’ when enemies of Nancy tried to kill her and thus change history in their favor. While Nancy Laplante ‘A’ died in 2019 ‘A’ while reporting on a war in Northern Iraq, her young timeline twin, Nancy ‘B’, is ready to take over from her, while Ingrid Dows ‘C’, timeline twin of the adopted daughter of Nancy, continues to serve with distinction in the United States Air Force in 1953 ‘C’.