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FORWARD TO CAMELOT: THE FINAL EDITION
RETURN TO A VANISHED WORLD, in this new edition of the beloved time-travel
October 2000
Soap-opera actress Cady Cuyler knows she is not brave, adventurous or accomplished; that's Sheila, the glamorous EMT she plays on TV. But too many other people think she's Sheila, which Cady doesn't Recently divorced from her agent, Cady's life consists of playing Sheila and providing a safety net to her mother Sandra, who has hardly noticed her since her birth; she's still lost in grief over the disappearance of her husband years before in Dallas. Cady's deepest wish is to somehow earn her mother's love and attention.
When a profound tragedy alters her own life and her job abruptly ends, Cady is offered the chance of a great She agrees to recover the Bible owned by JFK, which was used to swear in LBJ as president, on November 22, 1963, the same day her father, whom she idolized, disappeared forever. To do this, she must travel back in time to the Dallas of 1963, a dangerous world filled with dangerous secrets, and meet the man with the most dangerous secret of all--he plans to assassinate President Kennedy during his upcoming visit to Dallas.
For the first time in her life, Cady, the armchair adventurer, can live an adventure more exciting than anything Sheila ever did. She might even change her own destiny... if she dares.
Time can be altered. Lives can be altered.
History can be altered...
October 2000
Soap-opera actress Cady Cuyler knows she is not brave, adventurous or accomplished; that's Sheila, the glamorous EMT she plays on TV. But too many other people think she's Sheila, which Cady doesn't Recently divorced from her agent, Cady's life consists of playing Sheila and providing a safety net to her mother Sandra, who has hardly noticed her since her birth; she's still lost in grief over the disappearance of her husband years before in Dallas. Cady's deepest wish is to somehow earn her mother's love and attention.
When a profound tragedy alters her own life and her job abruptly ends, Cady is offered the chance of a great She agrees to recover the Bible owned by JFK, which was used to swear in LBJ as president, on November 22, 1963, the same day her father, whom she idolized, disappeared forever. To do this, she must travel back in time to the Dallas of 1963, a dangerous world filled with dangerous secrets, and meet the man with the most dangerous secret of all--he plans to assassinate President Kennedy during his upcoming visit to Dallas.
For the first time in her life, Cady, the armchair adventurer, can live an adventure more exciting than anything Sheila ever did. She might even change her own destiny... if she dares.
Time can be altered. Lives can be altered.
History can be altered...
340 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 17, 2024
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Susan Sloate
23 books63 followersBestselling author of 26 published books, including FORWARD TO CAMELOT (with Kevin Finn), STEALING FIRE and REALIZING YOU (with Ron Doades). The original 2003 edition of FORWARD TO CAMELOT was a #6 Amazon bestseller, honored in 3 literary competitions and optioned for Hollywood film production. STEALING FIRE, the 2013 #2 Amazon bestseller, was a Quarter-Finalist in the 2012 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Contest. REALIZING YOU, a 2013 self-help novel, gave her a chance to invent a new genre. Susan has also written 17 young-adult fiction and non-fiction books, including 5 biographies (Abraham Lincoln, Amelia Earhart, Clara Barton, and two on Ray Charles), history, and 7 novels for girls' book series. Susan lives outside Charleston, South Carolina. Visit her online at www.susansloate.com.
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November 4, 2024
An exciting and unique time-travel adventure filled with intrigue and suspense.
Forward to Camelot: The Final Edition is a riveting and unique time-travel adventure by authors Susan Sloate and Kevin Finn and takes readers to an infamous time and place in American history: the days leading up to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas. The book is full of surprises and twists, the first of which is the time-traveler goes back in time not to avert the assassination but to surreptitiously obtain the president’s personal Bible, which Judge Sarah Hughes used to swear Lyndon B. Johnson in as Kennedy’s successor for a current day collector. However, the protagonist has another more personal agenda for going back to these specific dates: to find and warn the father she never got to meet that something was going to happen to him on November 22, 1963, that would result in his mysterious disappearance.
The main character is Catherine “Cady” Cuyler, a successful daytime television soap star living in New York City, or at least she had been up until the book’s opening. Newly divorced and newly out of work, she’s surprised to discover a famous movie special effects designer wants her to star in his upcoming production. When she finally came to understand that the project involved time travel, it was a hard pass for her. Skeptical, of course, she’s also responsible for her elderly mother and can’t be away from her for the length of time the job would require. Still, her contact had been convincing.
The story hits the ground running with an exciting and chaotic scene of rescue and a deadly conflagration in progress that immediately grabbed my attention. From there, things only get more rousing and exciting as Cady ends up in 1963 Dallas. The story of Cady’s and her mother’s lives were heartbreaking. Her father, alive and in person in 1963, is not at all who she expected, and the interactions between men and women at that time, especially in the workplace, were well portrayed. Life seemed much more formal only 60 years in the past. The story is packed with surprises, a new twist occurring just when you least expected it, and aspects of some of the numerous conspiracy theories that have been floated over the decades since the assassination made an appearance in the plot. With so much at stake in this riveting tale, I didn’t want to put the book down.
I recommend FORWARD TO CAMELOT: THE FINAL EDITION to readers of time-travel stories, especially those interested in the 1960s or the Kennedy assassination.
I voluntarily reviewed this after receiving an Advanced Review Copy from the author through Goddess Fish Promotions Book Tours.
Forward to Camelot: The Final Edition is a riveting and unique time-travel adventure by authors Susan Sloate and Kevin Finn and takes readers to an infamous time and place in American history: the days leading up to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas. The book is full of surprises and twists, the first of which is the time-traveler goes back in time not to avert the assassination but to surreptitiously obtain the president’s personal Bible, which Judge Sarah Hughes used to swear Lyndon B. Johnson in as Kennedy’s successor for a current day collector. However, the protagonist has another more personal agenda for going back to these specific dates: to find and warn the father she never got to meet that something was going to happen to him on November 22, 1963, that would result in his mysterious disappearance.
The main character is Catherine “Cady” Cuyler, a successful daytime television soap star living in New York City, or at least she had been up until the book’s opening. Newly divorced and newly out of work, she’s surprised to discover a famous movie special effects designer wants her to star in his upcoming production. When she finally came to understand that the project involved time travel, it was a hard pass for her. Skeptical, of course, she’s also responsible for her elderly mother and can’t be away from her for the length of time the job would require. Still, her contact had been convincing.
The story hits the ground running with an exciting and chaotic scene of rescue and a deadly conflagration in progress that immediately grabbed my attention. From there, things only get more rousing and exciting as Cady ends up in 1963 Dallas. The story of Cady’s and her mother’s lives were heartbreaking. Her father, alive and in person in 1963, is not at all who she expected, and the interactions between men and women at that time, especially in the workplace, were well portrayed. Life seemed much more formal only 60 years in the past. The story is packed with surprises, a new twist occurring just when you least expected it, and aspects of some of the numerous conspiracy theories that have been floated over the decades since the assassination made an appearance in the plot. With so much at stake in this riveting tale, I didn’t want to put the book down.
I recommend FORWARD TO CAMELOT: THE FINAL EDITION to readers of time-travel stories, especially those interested in the 1960s or the Kennedy assassination.
I voluntarily reviewed this after receiving an Advanced Review Copy from the author through Goddess Fish Promotions Book Tours.
November 3, 2024
Cady was an actress on a daytime drama series. Unbeknownst to her, she had shot her last scene for the show, killing off her character for good. Now what?
The next project she’s offered was the role of a lifetime: a treasure hunter in search of John F. Kennedy’s bible from 1963. For real! What?! Like actual time-travel? Cool! But the real reason she whole-heartedly agreed to this was for the chance to stop her father from mysteriously disappearing in 1963—the day the president gets assassinated. Intrigue!
Right away, this had an interesting premise. Some of the scientific stuff got a little too technical for me and some of the narrative can be way too long. But I do like a good time-travel story. Imagine travelling to 1963 and meeting your parents before you were born. Cady really gets into the mystery that leads to her father’s disappearance and the reader eagerly follows along. Surprisingly, the man Cady meets in 1963 was not the father her mother boasted about. The man she was a cold, domineering, promiscuous brute that hated the president. What was going on? Could the missing woman from the company be connected to the dead woman? What was her father’s company hiding that caused their downfall?
A surprising twist was Cady meeting and confiding with Lee Harvey Oswald, the man that would be responsible for the president’s assassination.
This story was generally compelling, but it was a long and somewhat complex read. About halfway through, you become a little daunted by the lengthy narratives and trivialities, which brought this down to a 3.5 for me. When does she start looking for the bible?
I would’ve liked this to have been shorter and quicker as this was much too long. Also, the cover was so simple that it could’ve been spiffed up to be more eye-catching and alluring. But, overall, this story kept me reading from page-to-page for a good portion. Good concept and pretty good read!
The next project she’s offered was the role of a lifetime: a treasure hunter in search of John F. Kennedy’s bible from 1963. For real! What?! Like actual time-travel? Cool! But the real reason she whole-heartedly agreed to this was for the chance to stop her father from mysteriously disappearing in 1963—the day the president gets assassinated. Intrigue!
Right away, this had an interesting premise. Some of the scientific stuff got a little too technical for me and some of the narrative can be way too long. But I do like a good time-travel story. Imagine travelling to 1963 and meeting your parents before you were born. Cady really gets into the mystery that leads to her father’s disappearance and the reader eagerly follows along. Surprisingly, the man Cady meets in 1963 was not the father her mother boasted about. The man she was a cold, domineering, promiscuous brute that hated the president. What was going on? Could the missing woman from the company be connected to the dead woman? What was her father’s company hiding that caused their downfall?
A surprising twist was Cady meeting and confiding with Lee Harvey Oswald, the man that would be responsible for the president’s assassination.
This story was generally compelling, but it was a long and somewhat complex read. About halfway through, you become a little daunted by the lengthy narratives and trivialities, which brought this down to a 3.5 for me. When does she start looking for the bible?
I would’ve liked this to have been shorter and quicker as this was much too long. Also, the cover was so simple that it could’ve been spiffed up to be more eye-catching and alluring. But, overall, this story kept me reading from page-to-page for a good portion. Good concept and pretty good read!
October 27, 2024
This was absolutely fascinating, and I enjoyed every moment of reading it, cover to cover. It’s an interesting premise, and well-carried out. The book opens with a heart-racing scene, but we’re only given a very short respite before we watch as Cady’s life is upended, and you learn the heart-breaking circumstances of her life. In Cady’s shoes, I think I would’ve also made the leap back in time, if for no other reason than to get a chance to find out what happened to my dad, and for the slight possibility of finding out how true the conspiracy theories are. Of course, changing the future through the past isn’t easy, and Cady is facing down some serious obstacles. It’s easy to get caught up in her story, and you quickly realize just how strong, resilient, and resourceful she is as a character. Cannot recommend enough, especially for fans of time travel and family drama.
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