A Reunion in Time

A Reunion in Time - A Novel of Time Travel Unless you invent a time machine, time travel never happens when you expect it, right? It just happens. What if you're a 37-year-old man visiting his old high school for an alumni committee meeting? What if you instantly become a 17-year-old kid? You're suddenly in a different world, and because of that, you don't even know what questions to ask-or who to ask them of. A calendar on the wall says it's September 6, 2001. Oh my God, you think. It's only five days to 9/11. You've got to warn everybody. But who will believe you? You're a 17-year-old kid who claims he just time traveled from 20 years in the future. Rick Bellamy is a 37-year-old FBI agent, in charge of the New York office of the Counterterrorism Task Force. His life just changed, and it wasn't something he planned on. While visiting his old high school to help with an alumni committee, he was suddenly attacked by a short man in a black robe. Instinctively, to protect himself, Rick pummeled the little man, leaving him semi-conscious on the floor. Three other brothers came running to the scene of the commotion, one of them, Brother Francis yelling, "Young man, come to my office immediately." The sign on his door said Dean of Men, but Rick remembered him as a guidance counselor. He wanted an explanation of Rick's behavior toward Brother Morris. "My goal was simple, Brother-to defend myself against that sadistic little prick." As they spoke, Rick looked around the familiar office. He saw a team photo of the championship football team from 1999. He stood in the back row. Then he realized that Brother Francis looked quite young, in his 30's, but that was impossible because Brother Francis should be in his mid-50s by now. Brother Francis asked Rick if he knew what year it was, thinking that Rick may be suffering from a mental disorder. Rick said it was the year 2021, although the calendar on the wall showed the year to be 2001. Brother Francis then told Rick to look at a full-length mirror in the corner of his office. That's when Rick realized that the world had changed, and his life with it. He was looking at a kid who appeared to be 17 years old. Brother Francis takes Rick to a psychiatrist who specializes in hysterical psychosis, suspecting that Rick suffers from this. The psychiatrist gives Rick a clean bill of mental health and recommends that Rick see an acquaintance of his, a leading expert on time travel, a professor at Princeton. While Rick meets with the professor, his wife, Ellen, tries to find him, along with some of Rick's FBI colleagues. While they looked around the grounds of the high school, Ellen steps on a grate and disappears. She emerges, still at the high school, but it was a different place from where she was a few minutes ago. Ellen walks into the school, and a friendly brother informs her that Rick is, indeed, there and escorts her to the room where Rick was meeting with the time travel professor. On the way to the room she looks at a full-length mirror, and instead of seeing a beautiful 36-year-old woman, she sees a scrawny 16-year-old-herself, 20 years in the past. They try to convince anyone who will listen that they are accomplished adults in their mid-30s, Rick an FBI agent, and Ellen a famous architect. When they accurately predict the horrors of September 11, 2001 just a few days later, people start to believe them. Rick, Ellen, and a boy named Jack (another time traveler) who is an accomplished author and journalist, set off to explore their strange new (old?) surroundings. They visit Ellen's favorite uncle who introduces them to yet another time traveler, a man with a secret knowledge of a nuclear terrorist plot in the near future. They know they have to get back to 2021 to warn the authorities of the horrors that await, horrors worse than 9/11. "A wild time travel yarn to keep you up at night." Buy this page turner and get set for the ride of your life.