Children are the keys to our future. And now, children are the only hope for our past.
When 13-year-old Amanda Sault and her annoying classmates are caught in a food fight at school, they're given a choice: suspension or yard duty. The decision is a no-brainer. Their two-week crash course in landscaping leads to the discovery of a weathered stone arch in the overgrown back yard. The arch isn't a forgotten lawn ornament but an ancient time portal from the lost continent of Atlantis.
Chosen by an Atlantean Magus to be Timekeepers--legendary time travelers sworn to keep history safe from the evil Belial--Amanda and her classmates are sent on an adventure of a lifetime. Can they find the young Robin Hood and his merry band of teens? If they don't, then history itself may be turned upside down.
Amanda Sault silently studied the words she just scrawled: May 1st, 1214—Games and songs and revelry, act as the cloak of devilry. So that an English legend may give to the poor, we must travel to Nottingham to even the score.
She frowned. She was the Scribe. Amanda knew that meant she was supposed to understand what this riddle meant. But she didn’t have a clue. All she knew was that she, her four annoying classmates, and two offbeat adults were standing in what was left of the lost continent of Atlantis and they were supposed to be the Timekeepers, the legendary time travelers handpicked by destiny to keep Earth’s history safe from evil. But no one had told them how they were supposed to do it.
Their problem: no matter what happened—good or bad—they weren’t supposed to mess with the past. Period. Dot. End of story. Amanda felt hot liquid build in her throat. Her thumb traced the words of the arcane riddle. Their first Timekeeper mission. Amanda knew this wasn’t the end of the story.
This was just the beginning.
- Word Count: 56,000
- Author: Sharon Ledwith
- Website: Sharon Ledwith
- Heat Level: 1
- ISBN: 978-1-61937-140-8
- Cover Artist: Kelly Shorten
- Editor: Kathy Teel
The Reader's Roundtable Young and the Restless
Reviewer: Jaymes
Rating: 3.5
Review: Finding out you are chosen to be part of a team of Timekeepers to save the world probably wasn’t on Amanda’s mind when she ended…
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Reviewer: Heather Boustead
Rating: 4.0
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Reviewer: VKF
Rating: 3.5
Review: I give three stars to books I enjoyed while reading but think I got everything from them in the first read. A 3-1/2 star rating…
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