The San Diego County Encinitas Research Staff Is Like a Team of Two Hundred

Once I decided to write Two Spies in Time, I needed primary sources to research the heroes of the American Revolution. These librarian saints cheerfully found every book, PDF, and even a college thesis I needed to write the time-travel historical fiction book. They even found a 1782 British soldier's perspective, his first-person journal of the Revolutionary War, when Benedict Arnold attempted to betray West Point and George Washington.

Over the two years I researched, they provided twenty sources that were key to being knowledgeable enough to write the novel, from asking the question: What if the British had won the war?

What a joyful blessing the Encinitas San Diego County Library is to me. It was as if I had my own private research team without having pay them a penny. Hallelujah!

TWO SPIES IN TIME Back Book Cover
Welcome to 1780. The Continental dollar teeters on the brink of total collapse. In its fifth year, the Revolutionary War drags on, leaving citizens squabbling like siblings and backstabbing like enemies. Tensions among the colonists are at a breaking point. Many have lost heart, and some have switched sides.
American war hero, Benedict Arnold, is among those planning to defect to the British. Preparing to betray West Point and General George Washington, Arnold must first rendezvous with his co-conspirator, Major John André, Adjutant General to the British Army.
In a fortuitous turn of events, Spymaster John André finds himself stranded in American territory rather than, in one glorious stroke, winning the war for the British.
But what if André had made it back to his warship, the Vulture, waiting on the Hudson River? Two Spies in Time explores that question.
What if the British had won the war?
Fast forward to 1980. HH, a first-year teacher, is suddenly transported from British Commonwealth Kansas to colonial New York City, where she meets the legendary spy Nathan Hale. He convinces her to join him on an impossible mission: help America win the War of Independence, a war it has already lost.