Forward to
Camelot
Susan Sloate and Kevin Finn
Time-Travel / Thriller
Date Published: October 31, 2013
.jpg)
Synopsis
WHERE
WERE YOU THE DAY KENNEDY WAS SAVED?
On
the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination comes a new edition of the
extraordinary time-travel thriller first published in 2003, now extensively
revised and re-edited, and with a new Afterword from the authors.
On
November 22, 1963, just hours after President Kennedy’s assassination, Lyndon
Johnson was sworn in as President aboard Air Force One using JFK’s own Bible.
Immediately afterward, the Bible disappeared. It has never been recovered.
Today, its value would be beyond price.
In
the year 2000, actress Cady Cuyler is recruited to return to 1963 for this
Bible—while also discovering why her father disappeared in the same city, on
the same tragic day. Finding frightening links between them will lead Cady to a
far more perilous mission: to somehow prevent the President’s murder, with one
unlikely ally: an ex-Marine named Lee Harvey Oswald.
Forward
to Camelot: 50th Anniversary Edition brings together an unlikely trio: a
gallant president, the young patriot who risks his own life to save him, and the
woman who knows their future, who is desperate to save them both.
History
CAN be altered …
Excerpt
The man in the doorway was yawning, and his bright chestnut hair,
flecked with threads of gray, was tousled. He wore half glasses down on his
nose and held a thick typewritten report in one hand. His navy silk tie was
pulled down, his white shirt was rumpled. His eyes, though bloodshot, focused
on us politely.
I was face to face with President John F. Kennedy.
He looked at us, puzzled, and glanced around the empty hallway.
I knew if I didn’t speak that I’d never have another chance, but I
couldn’t think of a thing to say. The President looked at us, raised an
eyebrow.
Quick, Cady, say something. “Mr. President, my name is Cady Cuyler.”
Beside me, I felt Lee start at the words. “I’ve come a long way to speak to
you. Please, it’s very urgent.”
He was still puzzled. “Where’s my Secret Service detail?”
I took a deep breath. In for a penny, in for a pound. “They’re out
drinking at a nightclub called The Cellar, here in Fort Worth. They left some
Fort Worth firemen to guard you. They’ll be pretty hung over in the morning.”
Kennedy looked down at me. His eyes were a bit brighter, though it was
now close to 2:00 a.m. He looked over at
Lee, who gave him a tense smile, and stood almost at military attention. He
looked back at me and asked quietly, “And how do you know this?”
It was time. His hand was on the doorknob. Almost imperceptibly, he was
inching it shut.
I took a deep breath. “I’ll tell you, but you’re not going to believe
me.” I waited; he waited too. But he was listening; I still had a chance.
“I’m from the future. I don’t
live in Dallas in 1963. I live in New York in the year 2000. I’m here to warn
you, sir, and save you if I can. If you don’t listen to me now… you’re going to
die in less than 12 hours.”
Oswald had turned to me in alarm. Kennedy’s gray eyes never left my face
while I spoke. When I stopped, hoping, praying I had reached him, he glanced
down for a moment, then down the hall. All was quiet, the annoying yellow
lights still burning overhead. Like casinos in Vegas, it was impossible to know
from the artificial light in the hotel whether it was noon or midnight.
“You’re right,” the President said in that distinctive accent. “I don’t
believe you.” He started to close the door in my face.
Before he could, I was talking again, as quickly and persuasively as I
could. “Why would I make up a story like that? It makes no sense. Unless it was
true!”
His gaze was even and noncommittal, but at least he’d stopped closing
the door. “Can you prove it?”
About the Authors
Susan Sloate
Susan Sloate
SUSAN
SLOATE is the author of 20 previous books, including the recent
bestsellerStealing Fire and Realizing You (with Ron Doades), for which she
invented a new genre: the self-help novel. The original 2003 edition of Forward
to Camelot became a #6 Amazon bestseller, took honors in three literary
competitions and was optioned by a Hollywood company for film production.
Susan
has also written young-adult fiction and non-fiction, including the children’s
biography Ray Charles: Find Another Way!, which won the silver medal in the
2007 Children’s Moonbeam Awards. Mysteries Unwrapped: The Secrets of Alcatraz
led to her 2009 appearance on the TV series MysteryQuest on The History
Channel. Amelia Earhart: Challenging the Skies is a perennial young-adult
Amazon bestseller. She has also been a sportswriter and a screenwriter, managed
two recent political campaigns and founded an author’s festival in her hometown
of Mount Pleasant, SC.
For
updates and more information about Forward to Camelot: 50th Anniversary
Edition, please visit http://susansloate.com.
Author Links
Kevin Finn
His
next novel, Banners Over Brooklyn, will be released in 2015.
Author
Links
Purchase Links
Giveaway
Thanks for hosting us today - it's great to be here!
ReplyDelete