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new life? What is the agenda of the handsome young doctor who kidnaps her? Why will
Security Agents kill to possess her? Are cosmic forces in play to change both past and future? Get ready for a ripping yarn; a time paradox roller coaster ride, blending thriller genres in a sardonic take on history, destiny, and timeless love. Join Alice as she is catapulted back and forth between deadly conspiracies beyond her understanding. But Alice is resourceful and brave...
384:. I realize fiction in today's market is very niche-reader specific, particularly in self-publishing, and I am swimming against the tide by combining genres. But I could not keep Alice locked up in my head. She had to come out, so I hope people love her as I do. I would love to see it become a movie or TV franchise. Alice has more adventures in her.
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Alice awakens in a psychiatric hospital believing she is the daughter of a 16th century executioner. Is she insane? Or has a portal in the multiverse opened to a past life, where Alice and her outlaw lover are hunted by a corrupt noble and his henchmen, who have their counterparts in her frightening
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on the basis of a dream he experienced, in which a medieval young woman fleeing from an execution found herself in a 21st-century psychiatric hospital. He continued to develop the story and characters between his daily swimming sessions at a campus pool, "scribbl bullet points on hand as soon as
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twice for "good money", but could not enter production because
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signed on as director, and a further eleven drafts of the script were written to please a variety of distributors, but eventually the option expired, and the rights to the work reverted to the author by 2008.
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the novel, and rewrote it again to build on the characterization and the story's political themes. To avoid confusion with a novel of the same name by Jane
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