When he hears that his fierce, beautiful twin sister Savannah, a well-known New York poet, has once again attempted suicide, he escapes his present emasculation by flying north to meet Savannah's comely psychiatrist, Susan Lowenstein. Tom Wingo is an unemployed South Carolinian football coach whose internist wife is having an affair with a pompous cardiac man. It's about a father who learns the value of being honest and authentic with the daughter he loves because in the end, there is never enough time.Ī subtly woven meditation about the fragility of time raises the bar in this smart, fun, and affectionate story.Ī flabby, fervid melodrama of a high-strung Southern family from Conroy ( The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline), whose penchant for overwriting once again obscures a genuine talent.

Naturally, it takes time to set out the rules, and the explanations don't all make sense, but Kin's story isn't primarily about time machines or the Museum of the Modern Era that serves fast food as a curiosity in 2142. Plot holes are neatly sidestepped as Kin explains who can time travel, when and how often, what the grandfather paradox is, and why he can't bring his daughter with him to 2142. When Kin realizes the TCB intends to eliminate 14-year-old Miranda as a timeline error, he's forced to risk everything to try to save her life. Markus gives Kin 24 hours to 'close out' his life in the 20th century. When Kin’s spent 18 years in the past, Heather accidentally triggers the indestructible 'metal thingy' he’s kept hidden in their garage, inadvertently summoning Markus, a fellow TCB agent and the brother of Penny, Kin's fiancee in 2142. He gets married, and he and his wife, Heather, have a daughter, Miranda. Stranded in the past, Kin gradually forgets his previous life. There's a problem: Kin's been shot, and the implanted beacon that's supposed to help him return to 2142 has been damaged.

Kin Stewart, an agent for the Temporal Corruption Bureau, is on a mission to stop a time-traveling merc who's been hired to disrupt important legislation.

A time-traveling father must save his teenage daughter from secret agents who want to eliminate her to protect the historical timeline in this debut novel.

Here and now and then mike chen