Chandra Jarvis accidentally plunges through the wormhole from her universe of 2150 into a parallel, identical universe except the year is 1850 and the location is the Old West in the territory of southwestern Wyoming along the
Oregon Trail. She copes with hardship and danger with the help of her futuristic suit of special fibers and a personal computer chip implant. She meets and falls in love with Sean Dillon, a handsome member of a wagon train on it's way to Oregon City only to lose him to the woman waiting for him there with whom he is betrothed. Heart breaking, Chandra's last glimpses Sean, his betrothed and her family leave on a ship as it sails down the Columbia River on its way to the Pacific Ocean. Can she embrace and adapt to ways of the west and find a new direction for her life? Will she find a new love? Join Chandra in her quest for those answers and more in the first novel of the Parallel Past Time Travel series. |
Chandra Jarvis has survived her plunge through a wormhole from San Francisco of 2150 into an identical parallel universe except that the year is 1850 and the location is the Old West in Southwest Wyoming along the Oregon Trail.
Fortunately for her, she was wearing a futuristic suit of special fibers, had various sensory implants and a personal computer chip implant to help her survive the pitfalls and dangers of an era lacking the protections and shelter of her former existence. Chandra had met and fallen in love with Sean Dillon, a handsome member of a wagon train on its way to Oregon City. They declared their love to each other but he is honor bound and betrothed to another woman. He sails away from Chandra, on his way to San Francisco with his betrothed and her family to be married. Chandra settles in Portland, Oregon as an elementary school teacher but decides, after a year of this, to sail to San Francisco to see if she can learn the fate of Sean Dillon and his betrothed. Rejoin Chandra as she struggles to find her place in the Old West in this second novel of the Parallel Past time travel series. |
Chandra Jarvis has survived her plunge through a wormhole from San Francisco of 2150 into an identical parallel universe except that the year is 1850 and the location is the Old West in the territory of southwestern Wyoming along the Oregon Trail.
She has the help of her futuristic suit of special fibers and a personal computer chip implant to survive the pitfalls and dangers of an era lacking the protection and shelter of her former existence. Chandra has met and fallen in love with Sean Dillon, a handsome member of a wagon train on its way to Oregon City. They declared their love to each other but fate tore him away from her. After a failed attempt to find Sean Dillon, Chandra resumes her life as an elementary teacher in Portland, Oregon and is courted by Liam O'Hara, a handsome bridge-building engineer from Ireland. He attacks the emotional walls that Chandra erected because of Sean. However, she is not one to sit and pine her life away because of unrequited love. Even though she loves teaching and interacting with dear friends, that is not enough for this beautiful and vital woman. Rejoin Chandra as she struggles to find her place in the Old West in this third novel of the Parallel Past time travel series. |
It is the fall of 1864 and fourteen years since Chandra Jarvis plunged through a wormhole from San Francisco of 2150 into a parallel, 1850 universe along the Oregon Trail in Southwest Wyoming.
A computer chip implanted in the base of Chandra's skull as a child, and her futuristic smart-suit of special fibers along with other, special implants helped her to navigate and survive the dangers of the Old West. Chandra married, bore a daughter and spent the past twelve years teaching elementary school in Portland, Oregon. She and her husband embark on separate odysseys trying to influence an event that she knows is coming. They have to navigate the hazards imposed by Native American uprisings and the Civil War. Will they be able to accomplish this or is destiny too rigid and uncompromising to allow it? Rejoin Chandra in this fourth novel of the Parallel Past time travel series. |
Chandra and her husband enjoyed many idyllic years teaching at two one-room schools near Portland, Oregon. They’ve lived there with their daughter, Riona who was born in 1858. She knows her mother plunged through a wormhole from San Francisco of 2150 into the year 1850 of this parallel universe near the Oregon Trail in Southwest Wyoming. A computer chip, implanted at the base of Chandra’s brain as a child and her futuristic smartsuit of special fibers helped her cope with the dangers of the Old West.
Riona spent her childhood summers in Fort Bridger with both her family and local Shoshones and became aware of the oncoming fate of Native Americans thanks to her mother. The fate of Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce particularly affects her and she is determined to help them even though Chandra told her how difficult it is to influence changes over a pre-determined future. Riona, her parents, their adopted Shoshone grandfather and a handsome reporter from a San Francisco newspaper travel by train and sea to find Chief Joseph and his people just before their conflict with and flight from the United States Army. Do the Nez Perce allow them to come along or heed the warnings of Chandra, Sean and Riona as Chief Joseph and his people lead the United States Army on a long, torturous 1700 mile chase? Join Chandra, her family and her friends as they go on another journey in Book Five of the Parallel Past Series. |