Savage: Time Travel Romance (New Atlantis Time Travel Romance Book 3)

She does this in the first chapter by standing up to a gym bully who is making a fool of Jac, a young man she mistakenly sees as disabled. In fact, Jac is over three hundred years old, and just Integrated into a new clone -hence his inability to handle his body properly. This is far more than just a love story. It is an exploration of what it is to be a unique human being, no longer defined by the body you inhabit. Some readers tell me they really wish New Atlantis was real. It took several books before I started to come to that way of thinking, I have to admit. I think it reminded me how much I always hated the idea of being an angel, on a cloud somewhere.

How boring would that be? This book was set in Sydney in the sixties, which immediately sent me on a nostalgia trip. And my teenage heroine, Jane, and her extreme insecurities around body image were right out of my own youth. Her secret writing was mine. I had such a crush on that guy!

But, instead of Sydney, I lived in a small rural town, and instead of a mysterious Latino, my crush was a factory worker who rode his white horse up to the front door of the shop. But there was certainly enough of me in there to explore. Another fun part of writing this novel was making sure I got the timing right. It was hard to remember when we first got colour TV, or when the first microwaves became available. I also had to remember what it was like to find out they could transplant a heart from one person to another. Of course, no one knew about cloning back then, so it was unimaginable to consider that not only could people have body parts replaced, but they could have a whole new body cloned from their own DNA.

It is hard to believe how fast technology and science has changed our world. In this book I also introduced the contentious issue of Retrieving missing children. At first glance this seems like such a noble thing to do, but when I started to look into what being missing might mean to the thousands of kids that do go missing each year around the world, I was faced with a dilemma. How do you know if they were murdered? What might that do to history? I had Julio and the Child Retrieval Team having to work through all these possibilities and more, and deal with the morally ambivalent stand of taking an abused child from his parents, as the only way to stop the abuse.

I have no idea what the answer is to this issue, and I therefore left it open. Nothing is black and white, right or wrong. Every choice has ramifications. This time I was led to the Holocaust for my subject matter. I have long given up trying to decide why I chose my topics as I do. But I found myself obsessed with the trains that carried the victims to their Death Camps, and so my heroine, Faith, finds an anomaly in the records — a missing carriage that was carrying children to Belzec Camp in Poland.

The accounts I read of those trains made me sick to my stomach. But it was like I had to rescue those kids, even if only in fiction. So I persevered, and tried to walk a line between the darkness and the light. My hero turned out to be another aspect of me, I think. When I wrote the rescue mission there was a point where I cried.

I have had several readers tell me the same thing happened to them. I would love to hear your feedback on it. If part of yourself comes out in the characters you write, then Maggie is the artist in me. Her desire to stay hidden away in New Atlantis so she can focus on her art is certainly true of me. And so I set her story in a location that is very familiar to me both in the year and place. And Travis is very like some of the men I worked with in prison.

That hard shell is very common.

I liked the idea of two people connected throughout their life, never realising the other was real. It played to the romantic in me, who believes in Soul Mates. And carrying that soul mate idea through means the two people are going to be opposites… which is what Travis and Maggie are in so many ways. Two sides of the same coin, the Shadow dancing we do with partners in an unconscious attempt to be whole. This is just the extreme version of that idea.

I have also played with the real Second Life a bit in the past, and I love the freedom it gives you to be anyone you want, and go anywhere you want. You can even fly and build your worlds in the sky. So it seemed to the perfect place for New Atlantis to turn up. This book was also a chance to learn more about Luke, who I immediately fell for in Savage. When he went green at the sight of porn I laughed. But his unconscious racism, which was part of his era was also important to include. Trying to describe how Time Travel works was an interesting aspect of this book, too.

I used the concept of genetic coding to postulate that every cell could have a code within it for its place in space and time, and that by altering that coding you could move that cell, and all the cells in a distinct body, to a different destination. So this was a book to explore that side of life. I also wanted to see what it might be to be a Researcher and spend whole lifetimes in an historic period.

In Nazi Germany a Gestapo agent meets a woman from the future

And for some reason Rene wanted to go back to an earlier time than the 20th and 21st Century that the other books had focused on. I decided to try out Regency England. It was lots of fun. Trying to imagine how a Regency Miss might handle all the changes in the world of 24th Century became the main thrust of the novel. But as it got going the grief inherent in the plot conflict took over. I found I was reliving that terrible year I dealt with cancer and the death of my oldest son. I was with a lovely man at that time, but the fact that I could be dying tainted the relationship. So this book became a bitter sweet revisiting of that time.

Another fascinating aspect of this book, which had been there in many others but not quite so extremely — I had NO IDEA how I was going have a happy ending with this one. Then ending, when it revealed itself to me was both shocking and acceptable. It just came out as I wrote. People ask me how I can write so fast and prolifically. Instead of going on a holiday around the Roman Empire in my imagination, I got to travel on the Titanic during her one and only journey across the Atlantic.

Having travelled for 2 months on an ocean liner in my childhood, to and from England, I had a visceral sense of what this experience must have been like. I had also visited some of the Titanic sets from the movie, and experienced what it must have been like when water started to pour into the ship.

I actually freaked out during that, much to the disgust of the male friend who was with me at the time. It was my first attempt at a complex, multi-thread story. I decided to write 3 love stories in one, following the Point of View of each of the lovers throughout the journey. But as I used to love timetabling back in my Head Teacher days, I found I loved the challenge of entwining the story-lines so that the reader got to see what it was like in all three Classes. I also enjoyed the logistics of describing movement around the ship. I remembered from my own days aboard ship that it was never as simple as going from Point A to Point B.

You had to go up, down and around, like in a maze, to find your way. So to work out the cabins locations and how people got from them to the dining saloons or to the library, I had to download schematics of the decks. I had them stuck to my living room wall throughout the writing.

I spent many hours plotting journeys within the ship, in much the way I plotted journeys around the Roman Empire. It may sound rather weird, but sometime around Book 3 of the New Atlantis series I started feeling like I actually was rescuing people from a terrible fate. I got quite emotional when my team got the women and children off that Death Train and into the Light. I had that same sense when I was writing this book.

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And in the scene were the Portal is activated and the children start moving through, into the Light, I got all weepy. I still do, reading back over it. Only a friend telling me that more might be rescued on a future mission lifted my spirits. I enjoyed involving all the regulars in the story, especially Luke. He still had his hang-ups over the dead flesh of the clones to work out.

So getting him to face his fears on that one felt good. I also enjoyed seeing Bart grow up and play his part. And lastly, I enjoyed the Titanic. She was as much a character as any of the people. Having watched the movie, and documentaries, read countless reference books, and walked the ship in cyberspace, and on the sets of the movie, I felt as if I knew her.

I hope that came across to the reader. Finding out about these Uni students, and most specifically Willi Graff, was a revelation. So Willi, aka Kurt, became my next Retrieval. Also, more of the fascinating phenomena the romantic couples experienced began to be clarified for me. And if that partner died, so would they. And so some of the tantalising missing pieces started to fall into place. Like what happened to Hakon, the guy who died in-situ so that Jac could take his body?

This was a book of constant surprises, for me, the biggest being the way the characters hijacked the book. Bart was supposed to be playing a secondary character, and was to get his own book later when he got a little older. Kurt was supposed to get the girl. But about half way through Bart had made his feelings known about Kat, and Kurt was clearly not settling in to New Atlantis as he was supposed to.

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And Kat… well Kat wanted to go along with me, but her heart was telling her something else. A darker, sadder scenario.

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And, as hard as it was to let him do it, I let Kurt choose his own fate. When Bart got his happy-ever-after, I felt a sense of completion come over me. But like the characters in this book, the people of New Atlantis weren't ready to let me stop writing about them. And all these ingredients are set against the backdrop of Rome and Pompeii again. He treats her with gentleness and respect, for all his life experiences have hardened him. Anniana is less damaged too, and once freed from the stifling restrictions of her home, she becomes a force to be reckoned with.

She knows what she wants, and is willing to go after it, even if that means losing the love and support of her father and eldest brother. It is simply one adventure, amongst many, that the couple have together, on their way to freedom and love. This is an epic adventure with baddies we love to hate who get their just deserts at the end. It has hot love scenes, fights, storms, shipwrecks, gladiatorial contests, plots, machinations and erupting volcanos. This book got to be the fun bit between two more serious subjects.

For anyone who has wondered what life was like in the Roman Empire, and feels like a good long book to get their teeth into, this is my suggestion. Writing this novel was one of the hardest things I've ever done. I'm not sure why. Probably because I found writing about the cancer experience too close for comfort. What my heroine went through is what I went through, and when I wrote about her acceptance of death rather than wanting to go through that whole painful process again, I was writing from the heart.

That felt like I was having a pity party just for me and I hated that. But I also felt there was something very important about writing about those thoughts and feelings, and having my hero soothe away those issues. It was a little like one part of me was caring for another part of me. At that time the average German was happy to have Hitler in power because he was slowly improving their living standards after years of poverty. Although Dirk was an unwilling member of the Gestapo, he believed in obeying the laws of his country. When Krista meets Dirk she realises quickly that he is her Key.

But she abhors what the Gestapo and SS do throughout the years until the end of the War. Once again Nhys shows her understanding of people in all walks of life.

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Her description of the anomalies of time travel are fascinating. Her love scenes are written more tastefully than those of other romance writers but are still for mature readers. I look forward to reading more of these books. I bought this book last year from the parent amazon. Some time ago I bought an Illuminated Verse from a second-hand shop which, to my mind at least, drives home the underlying message of Pieces Manchester I have to say from the outset that Pieces was unexpected!

For a couple of reasons, the first being Nhys had said in the last book of the New Atlantis series, The Key was the final of the series; but I am very, very pleased that she penned Pieces. My other reason is the storyline itself is challenging and confronting from beginning to end, which does make it different to the other books. Don't worry, there's still a happy ending, but with this one, that ending is truer to real relationships in that Dirk and Krista will be questioning themselves and their motives that drive them for a long time to come in their lives The darker side of human nature rears its head in this book; a lot of conflict was felt by many of the various citizens in New Atlantis when a Gestapo agent was brought into their world to save his life - and so saving the life of Krista, who was very unhappy to suddenly find her Key is a member of one of the most terrifying organisations of the Second World War.

The lengths these now-grown children take would be shocking enough in our own world, but in a world that has lived in peace for four hundred years? It rocks the foundations of their world! So once again, I say thank you to Nhys for an amazingly brilliant story. Most helpful customer reviews on Amazon. This book is so poorly formatted that it is not worth the read. Go ahead and download if you are in the mood for a jigsaw puzzle. The text is in pieces just like the title. I preferred the variety in the first few books and am not so keen on the ongoing Nazi Germany theme. Still a good story, though.

Was so surprised that another book followed the last one! They are a must read series! Enjoyed everyone of them!! Obviously a page turner in content and enjoyed the characters immensely' Jacqueline M. You won't be disappointed. Totally unique and touchingly, wistfully romantic. New Atlantis bundle was great because I knew I'd want to read my way immediately through the whole series! This series offers a new age way of seeing love in the future. It's fantastical, but so appealing because of the intrigue in the new spin on science. These short novels are bite-size gems that build nicely on each other, although each can be read as stand alones.

But I like the continuation of the story line and seeing characters in one novel then go on to play an important part in subsequent stories. This is great world building and I highly recommend this series. Would you like to tell us about a lower price? Furlo 'If you want something to lose yourself in and just plain out enjoy, get these!

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