Eye of the Solstice
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After coping for the past six months with the fact that Shama had been forced to survive under the harshest of circumstances, and in an inhospitable, extinct time, Christopher now found himself moving toward that mythical altar again, nervous, completely uncertain. Every emotion that made him who he was hung suspended in some kind of hellish limbo—hope, the thin veil that would either reunite him with Shama or deliver him into that hell.
Would she succeed in her passage through the gateway? Was there any way he could reach out to her in that other realm of time, with his mind, his feelings … and assist her? Was she hurt or in pain? He couldn’t stop asking himself these same questions over and over. Had she been resourceful enough to find a way to come back through to this time, this century, this precise moment?
When she failed in her passage back to the twentieth century with them, he knew a sense of loss and separation as never before, the very core of his being ripped away. He had failed her. He knew this. From that moment on, it was as though his own soul had abandoned him … to some dark, forbidding dimension within the time continuum that he could not see or feel ... some long-forgotten place that he could not touch, not even with his spirit. The extent of her feelings of total emotional and physical isolation she must have known for the past six months was all that reached him. That, and the utter terror he, himself, could barely subdue. She was literally at the mercy of that dark past—
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Tensions mount as 168 Spaniards await the arrival of the Inca monarch and his retinue of thousands of warriors ... With great pomp, Prince Atahuallpa enters the town square in Cajamarca for the destined meeting with the Spanish conquistador ... The ambush that ensues alters the course of Inca life forever.
In a race to stay clear of the danger, Christopher has begun the trek back to Machu Picchu with their young child and Shama, the beautiful Inca priestess he loves—but how safe are his grandfathers, Joseph and Robert Bennett, from the brutality of the invaders?
Faced with an unscrupulous conqueror ... there’s only one place they can all go where they won’t be found. When Joseph and Robert are captured and held hostage at knife point—they must use their wits to outsmart an arrogant Francisco Pizarro.
Dangers posed by the invaders become critical, compelling Christopher to get his family to safety in the New World. Unexpected obstacles thwart their goals ... their plans all postponed ... when Christopher is called upon to rescue his son from a horrific fate at the hands of a zealous Inca priest.
As the Inca Empire declines amid atrocious treatment at the hands of the Spanish occupation, Shama must choose between life in a disintegrating culture and Christopher’s world 500 years in the future. Will they end up in the same time frame ... or will they be lost forever to the unfathomable power of the Gateway?
About the Author
JoAnna Daniels is the author of eight novels, including The Gateway, the first book in her Inca series. She lived in Europe for five years, has traveled extensively, and speaks four languages. Daniels lives in Southern California and enjoys spending time in the Colorado Rocky Mountains with her three sons.