All Timelines Lead to Rome - Coming Sept 30th
I've been quiet here for the last 6 weeks, partly because of real-life issues and partly due to last-minute preps for the release of my new novel.
Here is the press release:
All Timelines Lead to Rome - By: Dale Cozort - available in trade paperback and e-book formats September 30, 2012 from Stairway Press.
A unique alternate history: Newly created portals lead to an alternate reality where humans enslaved rather than wiping out an island race of hobbit-like near-humans. Alternate history Rome built their culture around these slaves, preserving the empire but causing stagnation. The Roman Empire has survived nearly unchanged since its peak. As a result, Europeans never discovered America and American Indians still control the alternate reality’s New World.
Intertwined mysteries: A camera chip concealed on the body of a dead woman depicts a Roman scroll that could not exist in her reality. The subsequent murder investigation and the discovery of the chip leads Detective Darla Smith to the Bureau of Timeline Integrity and analyst Scott White. Is the murder linked to smuggled Roman artifacts from the alternate timeline? When they discover the chip also contains photos of a creature who’s not quite human, powerful forces step in to detour Scott and Darla. Undeterred, they continue their investigation, leading them further into dangerous territory and more tangled mysteries. What lurks in Darla’s past and dogs the investigation? What is that peculiar creature in the photo, and how did it have such an impact on Rome? Why do Roman slave raiders suddenly appear in alternate history North America? And what does software giant Burgen Industries have to do with any of this?
A trail of clues leads Darla and Scott through cyberspace, decaying rustbelt towns, and an Indian-controlled alternate North America toward the final shocking answer as to why all timelines lead to Rome.
Here is the press release:
All Timelines Lead to Rome - By: Dale Cozort - available in trade paperback and e-book formats September 30, 2012 from Stairway Press.
A unique alternate history: Newly created portals lead to an alternate reality where humans enslaved rather than wiping out an island race of hobbit-like near-humans. Alternate history Rome built their culture around these slaves, preserving the empire but causing stagnation. The Roman Empire has survived nearly unchanged since its peak. As a result, Europeans never discovered America and American Indians still control the alternate reality’s New World.
Intertwined mysteries: A camera chip concealed on the body of a dead woman depicts a Roman scroll that could not exist in her reality. The subsequent murder investigation and the discovery of the chip leads Detective Darla Smith to the Bureau of Timeline Integrity and analyst Scott White. Is the murder linked to smuggled Roman artifacts from the alternate timeline? When they discover the chip also contains photos of a creature who’s not quite human, powerful forces step in to detour Scott and Darla. Undeterred, they continue their investigation, leading them further into dangerous territory and more tangled mysteries. What lurks in Darla’s past and dogs the investigation? What is that peculiar creature in the photo, and how did it have such an impact on Rome? Why do Roman slave raiders suddenly appear in alternate history North America? And what does software giant Burgen Industries have to do with any of this?
A trail of clues leads Darla and Scott through cyberspace, decaying rustbelt towns, and an Indian-controlled alternate North America toward the final shocking answer as to why all timelines lead to Rome.