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The Seed Time
The Seed Time
The Seed Time
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As political tensions rise in 2176 America, time travel is stirring up the race-related sins of the past. Investigating alterations to history during the Revolutionary War, George Merrill and Andy Bishop find their newly-restored friendship severely tested, and the challenges continue at home: mysterious disappearances, painful family conflict, unwelcome publicity, and strange happenings at the Time Travel Institute. Seeds sown decades before are breaking dormancy: the awakening of an intelligence that relies on humans to flourish and spread, and that threatens the stability of time itself.

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Release dateFeb 9, 2020
ISBN9780463670071
The Seed Time
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Erica H. Smith

Erica H. Smith lives in Maryland. In her spare time, she blogs about the joys and sorrows of vegetable gardening, invents frumious and uffish recipes, and crafts an incriminating internet search history.

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