Remember how it feels to Fall in Love?
- Race against the clock through a dystopian nightmare.
- Climb naked into an untested time machine (carrying only a seashell and a promise).
- Wake up twenty years younger on a tropical beach, buck naked and mortally wounded, with your heart in your throat.
This is a journey of passion, loss, and redemption that will have your pulse galloping and your palms sweating, make you laugh out loud through your tears, and leave you flush with the sublime pleasure of being in the arms of the one you love.
If someone took everything you live for, how far would you go to get it back?
Quarter Finalist
Assessment:
Isabel Sanborn travels across time to help save mankind from a deadly virus and find her true love, Diego Nadales. With the possibility of dying, she must give her true love up to her younger self. Alternating perspectives between three characters, this tricky, time travel plot is successfully executed and will leave readers wanting more. The author has woven together facets of science fiction in a dystopian setting with vivid imagery.
Date Submitted: July 13, 2016
Launching the Between Two Evils series, Orton constructs a delightfully fun time-travel adventure that spans years and universes. Isabel is facing the consequences of her self-destructive behavior: she’s freshly divorced and on the edge of losing her life’s work. Things look up when she’s reunited with her long-ago love Diego, but their renewed relationship begins with and is punctuated by disasters. Physics professor Matt is conscripted to unravel the mystery of an impossible object that is causing the perils threatening the lovers. Matt and his team use technology sent from the future to determine that the key to saving the world is personal rather than global: it depends, somehow, on the enduring love between Diego and Isabel. Orton has carefully balanced existential peril on the micro and macro scales, slowly raising the stakes until a fever pitch is achieved. What at first seems silly or pointless becomes vital as the nature of causality is revealed. Engaging, funny, romantic, and harrowing, this promising series opener will leave readers satisfied by its unexpected yet earned conclusion, and curious about what comes next. (BookLife)
"Edgy, literary, pithy. I like this book. It’s charming and punchy and engaging. The characters seem well conceived and refreshingly naughty. D. L. Orton has great finesse when it comes to storytelling."
"This is a wild and totally enjoyable ride [...] packed with humor and parody and absurdity and on-fire imagination. As a debut novel it is astonishingly fine."
"This book holds WAY more than it appears to. I was satisfied, exhausted, inspired, and blown away."
"Rich, Detailed, Fast-Paced, and Intelligent."
"It’s clever, absolutely hilarious, full of epic references to pop culture and colored with a vast collection of puns that are just to die for."
"An exceptionally well written and deftly crafted story that will have immense appeal for science fiction fans in particular, "Crossing In Time" is very highly recommended for community library collections."
"The Best Science Fiction Love Story of the Year!"
November 2015 Press Release:
Congratulations!The results of the 2015 USA Best Book Awards have been announced.CROSSING IN TIME has been honored as a Finalist in the Cross Genre Fiction category!
ANNOUNCING THE 2015 COLORADO GOLD CONTEST WINNERS!
First Place: Shantal LaViolette, The Iron Duke: Voices at the Door (El Prado, NM)
Second Place: D.L. Orton, Crossing in Time (Colorado Springs, CO)
Third Place: CJ Collins, In the Ghost Prints of Dragons (Clovis, CA)
Background
For thirty years, the Colorado Gold contest for emerging writers has given aspiring novelists the chance to get their work in front of publishing professionals...
Welcome to BookLife and Publishers Weekly’s second Starred Reviews Annual, in which we celebrate the best of the best: all the self-published books that received starred reviews in 2015.
"Engaging, funny, romantic, and harrowing, this promising series opener will leave readers satisfied by its unexpected yet earned conclusion, and curious about what comes next."
