THE PLAGUE JUMPERS by Dale Lynn

ELEVATOR PITCH: Mystery follows a young woman who jumps back in time looking for a cure for a deadly disease.

GENRE: Time travel

STORY SUMMARY: 
Aspasia Preston’s genius brother hurls her back in time to spare her from a flu ravaging their own era. “Like Moses in the bulrushes…” he pushes her to what he believes is safety. But when she lands in pre-Great Influenza Baltimore — 1917 — she shouts her resentment to an unhearing universe. Did he save her or put her in more peril? Her questions compound as she encounters her brother again, who’s managed to jump, as well. Prior to his leap, infection claimed him. Now, he’s cured. Why? Together, they work at the great Johns Hopkins Hospital, seeking to discover a serum or vaccine they can cart from this time back to their own–or even a bit before, as Aspasia hopes to use it to prevent her own beloved fiance from contracting the deadly illness. Their work faces complications, however, when others jump to 1917, too — to help or hinder? Who is enemy, who is friend, where does Aspasia belong in time and space? Heartbreaking, soaring, poignant…a tale of love, poetry and sacrifice.

LOCATIONS: Future New York City, 1917 Baltimore, Maryland

TIME: Future and 1917

CHARACTERS:

• Aspasia Preston: 20s, intelligent, creative, dreamy woman forced into situations she cannot control.
• Eric Preston: 30s, Aspasia’s scientist brother, a genius whose passion for science often clouds his passion for love and truth
• Roland Kilmartin: 20s, Aspasia’s fiance, also a scientist, thought to be dead in the flu-ravaged future but who appears in 1917 as an agent of…good or evil?
• Cassandra Ripley: 30s, Eric’s former fiancee, a scientist turned rebel who wants to overthrow the regime she believes helped spread the deadly virus in their future time
• Other characters: Gwendolyn, an upper-class young woman in 1917 who helps Aspasia; Alphonse, a young immigrant with whom Gwendolyn falls in love.

ADDITIONAL INFO: This book is to be released March 13, 2015 by Istoria Books.

CONTACT: Istoria Books — Istoriabks@gmail.com

 

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