The River of No Return

Ridgeway, Bee

ISBN 10: 0525953868 / ISBN 13: 9780525953869

Published by Dutton,, New York:, 2013

About this Item

Hardback. First edition. Part science fiction, part historical novel and part romance, set in twenty-first century London and 1815. First edition, first printing with complete numberline. Very clean, bright and neat. Very good copy in like dust jacket Very good copy in like dust jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The River of No Return
• Publisher: Dutton,, New York:
• Publication Date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0525953868
• ISBN 13: 9780525953869
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

In Bee Ridgway’s wonderfully imaginative debut novel, a man and a woman travel through time in a quest to bring down a secret society that controls the past and, thus, the future.

“You are now a member of the Guild. There is no return.” Two hundred years after he was about to die on a Napoleonic battlefield, Nick Falcott, soldier and aristocrat, wakes up in a hospital bed in modern London. The Guild, an entity that controls time travel, showers him with life's advantages. But Nick yearns for home and for one brown-eyed girl, lost now down the centuries. Then the Guild asks him to break its own rule. It needs Nick to go back to 1815 to fight the Guild’s enemies and to find something called the Talisman.

In 1815, Julia Percy mourns the death of her beloved grandfather, an earl who could play with time. On his deathbed he whispers in her ear: “Pretend!” Pretend what? When Nick returns home as if from the dead, older than he should be and battle scarred, Julia begins to suspect that her very life depends upon the secrets Grandfather never told her. Soon enough Julia and Nick are caught up in an adventure that stretches up and down the river of time. As their knowledge of the Guild and their feelings for each other grow, the fate of the future itself is hanging in the balance.

About the Author

BEE RIDGWAY holds a PhD in literature from Cornell University and is a professor of English literature at Bryn Mawr College. She lived in England for several years and now makes her home in Philadelphia.