Timeless Embrace

by Bernard Cenney

Timeless Embrace is the gut-wrenching sequel to Timeless Soldier, and part five of the Sparrow's Tears saga. Lin Sparrow is a witch. That's what people say. In her dreams, Lin has a seer's ability to foretell the future from the ashes of the past. Lin does it with her mind - the Nazis did it with a machine. Lin's marriage plans to Special Forces Captain James Ross are put on hold when they find themselves on a global hunt for the Nazi time machine known as Die Glocke. Communist Red China has established a secret submarine base on North Abaco in the Bahamas. Its commander is a sadistic Admiral who is known as the Water Ghost. Ross and Lin once again form an alliance with Emanuel the enigmatic taxicab driver. Together, they follow a trail of lies, deceit, and murder that rises from the ruins of the Third Reich and reaches to the deepest darkest waters of the Caribbean. But is time travel really possible? Can Ross and Lin stop the Water Ghost from altering the past? Time will tell.

304 pages, Hardcover

First published December 24, 2020

About the author

Bernard Cenney retired from the United States Army as a Lieutenant Colonel after spending more than three decades in uniform. He considers it a privilege to have served his country throughout numerous command and staff assignments the world over. He and his wife make Texas their home.

Reviews

[elena j. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Timeless Embrace by Bernard Cenney is a fierce, immersive, and razor-tight continuation of the Sparrow’s Tears saga a story where war, mysticism, and time itself collide. It picks up the thread of Timeless Soldier and pulls it into deeper, darker waters, both literally and emotionally.

Lin Sparrow is many things a survivor, a fighter, a woman with a mind that walks the line between vision and prophecy. People call her a witch; what she truly has is a gift rooted in memory and intuition, the kind that sees the future smoldering in the ashes of history. Her bond with Captain James Ross gives the story its heartbeat, but their plans are thrown sideways when the hunt for the Nazi time-machine Die Glocke resurfaces with terrifying urgency.

Cenney weaves supernatural tension into geopolitical suspense, moving from wartime ruins to the shadowy depths of the Caribbean, where Red China’s secret submarine base and the brutal Admiral known as the Water Ghost raise the stakes to an almost unbearable pitch. The worldbuilding is sharp and textured espionage, science, folklore, and military grit all braided into a story that feels both epic and intimate.

As Ross, Lin, and the enigmatic Emanuel navigate lies, violence, and history’s buried machinery, the question pulses at the center: What happens when the past is no longer fixed? The result is part thriller, part dark fantasy, part time-bending war epic and completely addictive.

Fans of Gregg Hurwitz, James Rollins, or Justin Cronin will devour this a series that only grows bolder, stranger, and more intoxicating as it goes.