Yestertime: A Novel of Time Travel

Journalist Ray Burton visits a dying friend in Flagstaff, Arizona and is asked to spread Harry’s ashes in the desert. To do so, Burton visits Hollow Rock, a nearby ghost town, whose only remains is parts of a blacksmith shop, jail, and building foundations with a lot of rotted wood. When a sudden storm moves in, he takes refuge in a cave to wait out the storm. In the cave he finds an ancient trunk filled with old clothes, and a copy of Hollow Rock Gazette dated September 7, 1870. Under that was an odd note: Funny that I’m going to die a hundred years before I was born. 

Burton also found coins and an old revolver from the era, but inside the box was a digital camera, two memory cards, and the driver’s license of Stan Hooper, a resident of Boston, Massachusetts born in 1970. There was also a second note advising the reader to put everything back if they were clueless about the memory cards. They would need to wait until the 21^st century for that technology to make sense. What did Ray Burton find?

The journalist knew he had a story that needed to be researched. The box contained a mystery Burton couldn’t ignore and the sequence of events that follow, changes his life forever. 

Author Andrew Cunningham creates a plausible time travel story that keeps readers glued to the page. He uses interesting techniques to show the experiences of a few time travelers from their POV. In so doing, readers get a sense of the physical and psychological toll time travel has on a person.

Here’s what I took away from Yestertime: A Novel of Time Travel: We are all time travelers, and I’ve been traveling through time since 1949 witnessing 72 years of 20^th and 21^st century history. The best way to live through an era is to make meaningful connections with the right people, positive people that make you happy. 

I highly recommend Yestertime to all fans of time travel and science fiction. 

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About the Author

Andrew Cunningham is the author of thirteen novels, including the award-winning Amazon bestselling thriller WISDOM SPRING. Formerly an interpreter for the deaf and a long-time independent bookseller, Andrew has been a full-time freelance writer and copy editor for the last 20 years. Andrew has been involved in training and teaching martial arts for many years, achieving the rank of 4th-degree Master Blackbelt in Tang Soo Do. A long-time resident of Cape Cod, he and his wife now live in Florida. He can be contacted at [email protected]. You can visit his website at www.arcnovels.com.