The Alexander Inheritance (Assiti Shards)

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TIME TRAVEL ALT. HISTORY FROM A MASTER: Flints Ring of Fire and Boundary series have proved him to be a master of time travel alternate history. Here then a new tale of persons displaced in time fighting for their lives. CRUISE THROUGH TIME AND SPACE Twice before mysterious cosmic catastrophes have sent portions of the Earth across space and back in time. Now the planet is struck with yet another such cataclysm whose direct impact falls upon the Queen of the Sea a cruise ship in the Caribbean. When the convulsions subside the crew and passengers of the ship discover that they have arrived in a new and frightening world. They are in the Mediterranean now not the Caribbean. Still worse they discover that the disaster has sent them more than two thousand years back in time into what will become known as the Hellenistic Period. It is a time in which Greek civilization spreads around the Mediterranean and beyond. It is a time of chaos. A time of civil war. A time of bloodshed. This is the new world in which the Queen of the Sea finds itself. Can Marie Easley and Captain Lars Flodden guide the crew and passengers through this cataclysm? Fortunately they have some help: a young Norwegian ships officer who forms an attachment to Alexanders widow; a French officer who is a champion pistol marksman; a canny Congressman from Utahand most of all many people of the time who are drawn to a vision of the better world of the future. About Eric Flints Ring of Fire series: This alternate history series isa landmarkBooklist Eric Flints 1632 universe seems to be inspiring a whole new crop of gifted alternate historians.Booklist reads like a technothriller set in the age of the MedicisPublishers Weekly