Talkshow Thursday: A Guest Post by Sarah Hanks
Braving Red Waters, the third book in my Time Sailors series recently released. This series offers a unique twist on time travel and is full of faith and historical adventure. Braving Red Waters features the USS Red Rover, the first fully outfitted hospital steamboat in the Civil war. Phoebe is a competent but less-than-compassionate nurse in modern-day who time-sails to Civil War St. Louis where the Red Rover is being converted into a hospital ship. She ends up nursing wounded Union soldiers on the steamboat and learning about tenderness and compassion in the process. And she meets Miles, who I introduced in book 2. He’s a time-sailor as well, but he has no intention of returning to his original time in 2001. He’s avoided boats for years, not wanting to risk leaving his new home in 1800s St. Louis. Phoebe and Miles hit it off and bond over Pop Rocks and Friends references. Think you know where this is going? You may be right… or not. You’ll have to read to find out.
How does time-sailing work? Here’s what we know by book 3:
- Time sailing is time travel from one boat to another boat in the past.
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It’s initiated by touching an antique mailbox on board a boat. If a person gets a shock, then travels up or down stairs or an elevator, he or she time-sails to the past.
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The time-sailor can communicate with friends and family in modern day through the mailbox onboard. There will be a matching mailbox on both boats.
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The time-sailor must complete a mission before she can return to modern-day.
- However, no one can tell her what that mission is. She must figure it out.
The time sailor cannot change history books, or she’ll die in both times.
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There is a time sailor guide in the 1800s named Dr. Duncan. He explains what’s happening to time sailors and provides nominal help in discovering and completing their mission. Everyone descended from Dr. Duncan is drawn to time sailors.
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In order to return to present-day after completing a mission, the time-sailor must go on a boat.
In each book, readers learn a little more about the time-sailing process. In
Braving Red Waters, they learn something big.
If you like time-travel books, historical fiction, or stories that include nurses, romance, whales and other marine life, spies, or mother-daughter stories, I invite you to give
Braving Red Waters a try.
Here’s the back cover blurb:
Phoebe Bristow has spent a decade guarding her heart after her father walked out and shattered her family. When she touches a mysterious antique mailbox aboard a whale-watching cruise in Baja California and wakes up in Civil War St. Louis, she must learn to trust again, first the quick-witted man who greets her on shore, then the God who placed her there for reasons she cannot yet understand. Back on the cruise, her mother Erica clings to the mailbox as the only thread connecting her to her missing daughter, while a thoughtful marine biologist, Rodney Duncan, steadily dismantles the walls around her wounded heart. Together and apart, mother and daughter discover that the courage to love again may be the most dangerous mission of all.
This series is best read in order, so start with
Braving Strange Waters then move to
Braving Fiery Waters before reading this one.
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