Wrong Place, Wrong Time: Surviving the Past, #1

By Jennifer Clay

Surviving the Past: Wrong Place, Wrong Time

When Rachel travels to the past, she unexpectedly ends up in the wrong time.

While in the past, Rachel runs into Emma...

... an eight year old little girl who desperately needs someone to help her.

And before Rachel can even think about what her next step will be, Emma asks her to stay.

Rachel can't bring herself to leave Emma behind...

So she decides that staying in the past is the best decision she could make...

And she starts learning to make a life for herself... in the past.

Download this book now to begin this journey with Rachel in the "Wrong Place, Wrong Time."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ten Twenty Three, LLC
• Release date: Oct 20, 2014
• ISBN: 9781502279712

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Surviving the Past: Wrong Place, Wrong Time

By Jennifer Clay

A Ten Twenty Three Publication

Copyright 2014, Ten Twenty Three, LLC.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without prior permission of the publisher and author.

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, businesses, organizations, events, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Don’t Forget To...

Chapter 1

Damn! Rachel looked around, realizing that things had gone very wrong. Instead of arriving before the pandemic, when she would have been able to help, she’d arrived right in the middle. She wasn’t even in the right place. How had they got it so wrong? They had warned her that it was possible something might go wrong, because they hadn’t sent someone through time before, but she didn’t believe even they thought it could have gone as badly as it had, and, as she wouldn’t be able to go home for a couple of weeks, she was going to be trapped living through a crisis that she’d been planning on stopping. Breathing deeply, she did her best to calm herself.

With all the panic that was going on around her, that wasn’t the easiest thing for Rachel to do. All she could do was hope that meant her appearance hadn’t been noticed. Two weeks wasn’t that long. She could cope with being there for two weeks. Blinking away tears that weren’t going to help, she started walking, because she always thought best when she was doing something. In the lab they’d always joked about her wearing a hole in the floor when she was pacing. Eventually she would be back there and when that happened she was going to talk to them about how she’d ended up where she was. Unless it had something to do with the conversation Carrie and Lloyd were having. Rachel was certain she wasn’t meant to overhear it, and she knew she should have walked away, but they’d been talking about what might happen if the technology sent her to where she’d be most needed.

As though the technology could do that. She’d laughed it off, knowing that the machine they were using didn’t think. It just did as it was told to do. Yet, while she walked through floods of