Title: Children of Time
Author: Eric R. Johnston
Release date: May 15, 2013
Genre: Time Travel, Dark Fantasy
Shawna McCullough is enjoying a quiet evening with a book when her six-year-old daughter, Alexis, awakens and talks of dreaming about her own death, describing it in vivid detail. They fall asleep next to each other, but when Shawna wakes up just after midnight, instead of her daughter, she discovers a strange man in her bed. She also now has two daughters, neither of them Alexis, and she’s nine months pregnant.
This is only the beginning of the strangeness as she discovers the man is just as confused as she is. He is Mark LaValley, a police officer who claims to have been killed in this same house years earlier while answering a domestic dispute between her and her husband, a dispute that led to his death. Except in this reality, he is no longer a police officer but a substitute teacher.
It isn’t long before Shawna and Mark realize they have been entrusted with guarding “the children of time,” as a demon known as Zuriz Falcon, who has been exiled to another realm, sends his henchman to kidnap the girls, including the one she’s pregnant with. Only with the powers of these three “children” and that of a collection of unique books can Falcon be released from the dark realm to unleash his evil upon the world.
Guest Post: Top 10 reasons why the fantasy genre is awesome by Eric R. Johnston
1. Fantasy doesn’t have to rely on graphic sex to be interesting
2. Fantasy deals with real life themes in a unique way
3. The characters are bigger than life
4. The villains are always memorable
5. Fantasy can be about anything
6. There are many sub-genres that have their own conventions and motifs, making it accessible to a variety of readers and writers
7. The most memorable pieces of literature in the last 100 years have been fantasy
8. Fantasy can affect our culture in ways other genres can’t
9. Every other genre can contain elements of fantasy
10. I write fantasy
About the Author
Eric R. Johnston is the author of An Inner Darkness, A Light in the Dark, Harvester: Ascension, and Children of Time. When he isn’t writing, he is editing and substitute teaching at local high schools and middle schools. He also enjoys running and weight lifting. He lives in Imlay City, Michigan with his fiance, daughter, and two step-daughters.
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Thanks for the giveaway, Casey.