Time-Travel / Thriller
Date Published: October 31, 2013
WHERE WERE YOU THE DAY KENNEDY WAS SAVED?
On the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination comes a new edition of the extraordinary time-travel thriller first published in 2003, now extensively revised and re-edited, and with a new Afterword from the authors.
On November 22, 1963, just hours after President Kennedy’s assassination, Lyndon Johnson was sworn in as President aboard Air Force One using JFK’s own Bible. Immediately afterward, the Bible disappeared. It has never been recovered. Today, its value would be beyond price.
In the year 2000, actress Cady Cuyler is recruited to return to 1963 for this Bible—while also discovering why her father disappeared in the same city, on the same tragic day. Finding frightening links between them will lead Cady to a far more perilous mission: to somehow prevent the President’s murder, with one unlikely ally: an ex-Marine named Lee Harvey Oswald.
Forward to Camelot: 50th Anniversary Edition brings together an unlikely trio: a gallant president, the young patriot who risks his own life to save him, and the woman who knows their future, who is desperate to save them both.
History CAN be altered …
It
was a famous photograph, one I’d seen many times. In the center of the
photograph was a tall, burly man, with thinning hair slicked back, a large
face, big flappy ears, right hand raised piously, facing a small brisk woman
with dark hair and glasses. On the man’s right, crowded next to him, seeming
crushed by his vitality, was another small dark woman, her face blank with
conflicting emotions.
But
the man, for all his bulk and heartiness, was not the magnetic force in the
photograph. The woman on his left was. Younger than anyone else, with dark
glossy hair, in a bulky light suit, her profile regal even in her anguish,
blood spattering her clothes, she stood watching sightlessly. Her beauty and
grief drew all eyes. Her pain was almost visible on the photo itself.
“This
is the swearing in of Lyndon Johnson as president on Air Force One in Dallas,
on November 22, 1963. His wife is on his right. Jacqueline Kennedy stands on
his left. Sarah Hughes is the judge administering the oath. John F. Kennedy had
been assassinated only a couple of hours before.”
“I
know the photograph, George.”
“Good
for you. Look here.” He pointed carefully at the almost invisible edges of the
book under Johnson’s massive hand. “Johnson, of course, needed to be sworn on a
Bible. Here it is, being held by Mrs.
Hughes.”
“You
want the Bible Johnson took the oath on?”
“I
do. That Bible belonged to President Kennedy. As a piece of history, part of
one of the twentieth-century’s most pivotal events… that Bible would be beyond
price. And I intend to have it.”
SUSAN SLOATE is the author of 20 previous books, including the recent bestsellerStealing Fire and Realizing You (with Ron Doades), for which she invented a new genre: the self-help novel. The original 2003 edition of Forward to Camelot became a #6 Amazon bestseller, took honors in three literary competitions and was optioned by a Hollywood company for film production.
Susan has also written young-adult fiction and non-fiction, including the children’s biography Ray Charles: Find Another Way!, which won the silver medal in the 2007 Children’s Moonbeam Awards. Mysteries Unwrapped: The Secrets of Alcatraz led to her 2009 appearance on the TV series MysteryQuest on The History Channel. Amelia Earhart: Challenging the Skies is a perennial young-adult Amazon bestseller. She has also been a sportswriter and a screenwriter, managed two recent political campaigns and founded an author’s festival in her hometown of Mount Pleasant, SC.
For updates and more information about Forward to Camelot: 50th Anniversary Edition, please visit http://susansloate.com.
After beginning his career as a television news and sports writer-producer, KEVIN FINN moved on to screenwriting and has authored more than a dozen screenplays. He is a freelance script analyst and has worked for the prestigious American Film Institute Writer’s Workshop Program. He now produces promotional trailers, independent film projects including the 2012 documentary SETTING THE STAGE: BEHIND THE SCENES WITH THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE, and local content for Princeton Community Television.
His next novel, Banners Over Brooklyn, will be released in 2015.
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