Quality Time
Book Details
Author(s)G. Michael Kaas
ISBN / ASINB00S342EL8
ISBN-13978B00S342EL3
Sales Rank245,848
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
If you suddenly found you could manipulate the passage of time, what would you do? Fast forward through a tedious plane ride? Zip through a boring sermon? Henry does.
How about slow time down to a crawl and disrupt a shooting while helping to identify a bank robber? Henry does that, too. Or, would you slow it time so much that you could slip into places almost unseen...and take a little peek, like a ladies' dressing room? Well, Henry doesn't do THAT. But he could.
Henry Hawthorne is a going-nowhere, overweight car salesman. Unremarkable, that is, until he nearly electrocutes himself at home and ends up with a new, young, transplanted heart. He then finds himself full of energy and adventure, including, inexplicably, a new-found ability to slow or speed up the passage of time.
Henry decides to take a leave from the dealership and, with his new found 'talent' and a P.I. License, help a few friends through some difficulties.
Meanwhile, Beth Dooley is searching for Henry's identity. Beth is the mother of a high school swimmer killed in a tragic accident whose heart Henry now carries.
Through Beth's ragged determination, she tracks Herny down and they begin to form a bond, both working and personal.
When Henry inadvertantly discovers he can REVERSE time, and actually CHANGE the future, he begins to deliberate. Should he actually go back and try to change things? Would that screw something up on a cosmic scale? Should he go back and warn people about coming disasters, natural or terroristic? Or should he act more selfishly and change things locally? Should he do any of these at all?
Eventually, Henry decides to try to reverse time and affect the circumstances leading to the accident to spare Beth the pain of losing her son. He knows this will cost him his new heart in this new, alternative future, but Henry is determined to try. For Beth.
How about slow time down to a crawl and disrupt a shooting while helping to identify a bank robber? Henry does that, too. Or, would you slow it time so much that you could slip into places almost unseen...and take a little peek, like a ladies' dressing room? Well, Henry doesn't do THAT. But he could.
Henry Hawthorne is a going-nowhere, overweight car salesman. Unremarkable, that is, until he nearly electrocutes himself at home and ends up with a new, young, transplanted heart. He then finds himself full of energy and adventure, including, inexplicably, a new-found ability to slow or speed up the passage of time.
Henry decides to take a leave from the dealership and, with his new found 'talent' and a P.I. License, help a few friends through some difficulties.
Meanwhile, Beth Dooley is searching for Henry's identity. Beth is the mother of a high school swimmer killed in a tragic accident whose heart Henry now carries.
Through Beth's ragged determination, she tracks Herny down and they begin to form a bond, both working and personal.
When Henry inadvertantly discovers he can REVERSE time, and actually CHANGE the future, he begins to deliberate. Should he actually go back and try to change things? Would that screw something up on a cosmic scale? Should he go back and warn people about coming disasters, natural or terroristic? Or should he act more selfishly and change things locally? Should he do any of these at all?
Eventually, Henry decides to try to reverse time and affect the circumstances leading to the accident to spare Beth the pain of losing her son. He knows this will cost him his new heart in this new, alternative future, but Henry is determined to try. For Beth.
