Chasing Shadows

Book 2 in the Tracing Time Trilogy. Fourteen years after the disappearance of David and Anna, Christopher Mack is imprisoned for their murders. Maggie Sturgeon, the young daughter who was left behind had been raised by her mother's brother and Turkish-born auntie, Ami.

Now an adult, Maggie finds that Trinkton, who she knew to be the lawyer involved in the murder case, was actually her parents' former Professor at UCLA. Following in her father's footsteps and being accepted into their science program, she too finds herself uncovering secrets she was never meant to know.

Connecting with a fellow student, and son of a prominent professor himself, Maggie and Rowan join forces to unearth every mystery about the past. What they didn't expect was to be entangled far more than they could have imagined. Rowan finds that his parents were also participants in the infamous time travel program as they uncover a convoluted string of events that led them to become deeply involved in a network of people in The Program.

Arriving in 1970s England, they reunite with their parents only to be plunged into a world from which they only wished they could escape. Maggie and Rowan ultimately believe they can make a difference by trying to thwart the growing effects of climate change, but their compromise is being fully controlled by The Company.

The family drama an absentee parent must face with their adult children takes on new meaning once Maggie confronts her parents as their paths cross in a time period none of them were meant to experience.

Shelly Snow Pordea is a travel-loving author and teacher at heart. She taught both English and Creative Writing for more than ten years, worked in administration for a few, and is now enjoying her life of full-time writing. Her fascination with the concept of time travel since childhood led her to pen the stories of the Tracing Time trilogy and join the world of fiction writers. Shelly spent nearly fifteen years living in Eastern Europe with her family, and is passionate about literacy, intercultural relationships, and humanitarian advocacy. She is a coffee and dark chocolate lover whose greatest joy is spending time with her husband and three children.