Game Time

by Mary Ann Chulick

Ana arrives from the future to play in a reality game show watched by the twenty-fifth-century audience. To win her game, she must induce preppy assistant principal Carson Wheeler to propose marriage to her. The Game designers add a fiendish complication to the game by giving Ana amnesia as soon as she enters the twenty-first century. Carson doesn't trust women. After his first wife died, leaving him with two young children, he remarried too quickly. His second wife ran away, taking Carson's toddler daughter with her. Now Carson spends all his spare time and money trying to find his kidnapped child. He's determined to raise his son by himself and never get involved with a woman again-not even with beautiful, buxom artist Ana Valdez. As Ana learns to cope with today's culture, she struggles with romantic and sexual longings she has never experienced before. When she regains her memory, she must choose between her twenty-fifth-century extended family and her passionate love for Carson. But both Ana and Carson remain unaware of the Game designers' ultimate and secret purpose. Reader Advisory: This book contains explicit sexual scenes.

Genres: Romance, Science Fiction, Contemporary

328 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2007

About the author

My first serious attempt at creative writing occurred in eighth grade, when my best friend and I tried to write a sequel to Gone With the Wind. We soon moved on to original historicals, fantasies, and science fiction novels, and I realized I had found an all-consuming interest.

Joining RWA and my local chapter, NEORWA, has been a wonderful experience. Five of my novels have finaled in or won RWA chapter contests. The support from my critique group has been very important to me.

Many years of working at a law publishing company, where I index the Laws of Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana, gave me an interest in legal matters pertaining to children--an interest which has found its way into several of my novels. I enjoy fixing up my 1920s house, playing with my two black lab-type dogs, and drawing my characters. Although my husband died in 2005, he enjoyed my novels and always encouraged my writing.

Reviews

[Cheap and Lazy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fantastic premise. Excellent attention to SF details, which were nicely woven into the story. Wonderful main characters. Sweet romance (including a couple of sensual love scenes) with some nice plot twists and a very satisfying ending. Handling of a couple of the secondary characters felt a little bumpy, but the story easily made up for it. Will be putting the sequel on my TBR.