Time Thieves by Dale Mayer

Author:Dale Mayer
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Suspense
ISBN: 978-1-928122-42-5
Publisher: Valley Publishing
Published: 2015-03-29T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Sari closed the book in front of her. Multiple tabs of paper stuck out from between the pages in places where she’d marked the location of interesting information. Still, from the looks of the number of tabs, going back through those specific pages wasn’t going to be a quick hop either. This was one of the three books her father had given her mother for safekeeping, and she could see why. It wasn’t just about time and dimension. It was theories; formulas for crossing the dimensional barrier. She didn’t know if her father had believed this stuff or had actively participated in it, but should any of this far-fetched gibberish work, it would explain her father’s disappearance.

Like nothing else would.

She still didn’t quite understand how she’d come to believe her father had shifted through dimensions, but with her own eyes, she’d seen him disappear before her and he’d never shown up again. Whether he’d chosen to go, circumstances had mysteriously been right, or things just happened without him knowing it was going to – he’d disappeared.

She hated to think he was looking to come home. It would almost be easier to think of him as dead instead of locked in another reality and trying hard to come back. He didn’t have his books or his research wherever he was now.

And she didn’t know that she could get to him. Who said there was only one other reality? What if there were hundreds? Anything she did could possibly send her into an altogether different place. Then they’d both be lost.

But she couldn’t leave her father missing if she knew of a way to help him.

Her phone rang, startling her out of her deep thoughts.

Ward. “Hello.” She smiled at the warm voice on the other end.

“I wanted to tell you that Madge is awake.”

“That’s great news.” And it was. One less thing to worry about. “She’s recovering then?”

“Yes, only she’s not talking much. She told us her name was Harrods. Which, considering where she ended up, means she’s likely one of your relatives. She doesn’t know how she came to be in your house or why she was scared and hiding out.”

“Wow, really? Oh dear. That’s not good.”

“No. Do you recognize the name?”

“I don’t know any Madge at all.” Sari frowned, thinking for a minute. “Our family tree is very sparse. I’ll see if I can find it and let you know.”

They talked for another few minutes and hung up.

Sari frowned as she closed her cell phone. “Madge Harrods.” Then it hit her. She got up and headed to the bookshelf where she’d stacked the journal she’d found in the attic.

There’d been a family tree in there. It took twenty minutes of frantic scrambling to find what she was looking for. Using her finger, she went over each line on the tree. There. M. Harrods. Born in Victoria in 1935 and deceased thirty-one years later.

Stunned, Sari sat down at her desk and tried to work through the logic. M. Harrods didn’t mean Madge Harrods.

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