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Runebound Earth #4
Future Present
Escaping the past doesn’t end with leaving the darkness behind. A fractured timeline reveals the cost of tampering with fate.
LILAH
Time travel shattered my life. I glimpsed a better future—then snapped back to the year 2242 in a near-death return that left me broken and changed. A corrupt government keeps me captive, and each passing day makes escape feel more impossible. I know my time is running out. The World Union wants my secrets, but I’ll die before I let them use me to hurt my twin.
VERNE
I couldn’t save Lilah two years ago, and I’ve lived with that failure ever since. Using time travel data stolen from the World Union, I perfect a plan to bring her to Avice. Traveling two millennia into the past should be a simple rescue, yet danger awaits us in the shadows of New Rapids. Forging alliances is risky. I’ll gamble with history if it means saving her.
Tinkering with time exposes how fragile life truly is, forcing Verne and Lilah to confront long-buried secrets and fight for the future they’ve only just begun to rewrite.
***
Dive into a high-stakes rescue where defying time offers a chance at something more. Join the residents of Avice as they take risks and explore the unknown, from personal trials to threats of destruction.
LILAH
Time travel shattered my life. I glimpsed a better future—then snapped back to the year 2242 in a near-death return that left me broken and changed. A corrupt government keeps me captive, and each passing day makes escape feel more impossible. I know my time is running out. The World Union wants my secrets, but I’ll die before I let them use me to hurt my twin.
VERNE
I couldn’t save Lilah two years ago, and I’ve lived with that failure ever since. Using time travel data stolen from the World Union, I perfect a plan to bring her to Avice. Traveling two millennia into the past should be a simple rescue, yet danger awaits us in the shadows of New Rapids. Forging alliances is risky. I’ll gamble with history if it means saving her.
Tinkering with time exposes how fragile life truly is, forcing Verne and Lilah to confront long-buried secrets and fight for the future they’ve only just begun to rewrite.
***
Dive into a high-stakes rescue where defying time offers a chance at something more. Join the residents of Avice as they take risks and explore the unknown, from personal trials to threats of destruction.
305 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 28, 2025
About the author
Ann Hosler
12 books6 followersAnn Hosler is the author of the Runebound Earth sci-fi romantic suspense series. Several of her sci-fi, fantasy, and humor short stories are published in the Fark Fiction anthologies.
As a natural walking dictionary, Ann currently moonlights as a newspaper copy-editor and collegiate teaching assistant/essay reader. She is also a former video gaming journalist who spent years living and breathing the worlds of fantasy and sci-fi games.
Born and raised in eastern Ohio, she offset the uncertainty of growing up with a fountain of creativity, producing poetry, short stories, and flash pieces that introduced fantastic elements amid reality. Now living in northern lower Michigan, she continues to create those worlds through her writing.
As a natural walking dictionary, Ann currently moonlights as a newspaper copy-editor and collegiate teaching assistant/essay reader. She is also a former video gaming journalist who spent years living and breathing the worlds of fantasy and sci-fi games.
Born and raised in eastern Ohio, she offset the uncertainty of growing up with a fountain of creativity, producing poetry, short stories, and flash pieces that introduced fantastic elements amid reality. Now living in northern lower Michigan, she continues to create those worlds through her writing.
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