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Destination Unknown: A Tale of Time Travel (Destination Unknown-A Tale of Time Travel Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Kathleen Ballantine Watson (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Twenty-six-year-old Beth needs no more drama in her life. Her job has become unstable leaving her with a shaky future. Dealing with a violent ex-boyfriend stalking her has been stressful enough. Now, on top of that, a serial killer’s on the prowl killing women who look like her.
Meanwhile, Beth's brother, Russ, has spent his life dedicated to building a time travel machine he calls the Scorpion. It's now complete and ready for experimentation.
Beth hates the contraption and wants no part of it. But when her life is threatened, the Scorpion’s her only means of escape. She's taken back to the year 1860 in a barn owned by a widower with three small children. With a broken-down machine, can she endure this challenging life while she hopes and prays her brother will build another machine and find her?
Twenty-six-year-old Beth has enough drama in her life. Her unstable job leaves her with a shaky future. A violent stalking ex-boyfriend causes more stress. And on top of that, a serial killer’s on the prowl killing women with Beth's identical physical traits.
Meanwhile, her brother Russ has spent his life dedicated to building a time machine. Now complete, it's ready for test runs.
Beth hates the contraption and wants no part of it. But when her life's threatened, the machine is her only means of escape. Traveling back to the year 1860, she lands inside a barn owned by a widower with three small children. Stranded with a broken-down machine, Beth must endure this challenging life while hoping and praying her brother can build another machine and come to the rescue. But how will he know where to look?




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Kathleen Ballantine Watson is the author, under the name Kathleen Ballantine, of According to His Will, an exploration of the wealth of Gods promises that transforms the scriptures into powerful prayers. This is her first novel. She currently lives in Florida.

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  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 229 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 198336858X
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Kathleen Ballantine Watson's fictional tale, "Destination Unknown" existed in her mind well before her fingers made it to the keyboard. For thirteen years the tale unfolded to her children, grandchildren, friends, and family whom all persuaded her to write a book.

"Destination Unknown," is her first novel. This story of time travel, love and the thrill of a serial killer takes place in Forest Lake, MN, a quaint town thirty miles north of Minneapolis in the years 2016 and 1860. A sequel is in the making which includes a great deal of Forest Lake's history of the mid-1800s.

In 1998, she authored a non-fiction book under the name Kathleen Ballantine. On July 23, 2018, "According to His Will," finally got published.

This book of prayers is an exploration of the wealth of God's promises. Over one-hundred scriptures transformed into powerful prayers give the confidence to seek God's will.

Kathleen is the proud mother of four, grandmother of eleven, and great-grandmother of three. She grew up in Duluth, MN, but currently lives in SW Florida with her retired military husband, Darrell.

Her favorite things to do when not writing are gardening, golfing, oil painting and most of all, family gatherings.

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RT
5.0 out of 5 stars Great storytelling
Reviewed in Australia on 2 October 2020
Factual and entertaining, this is a fantastic read from page 1. Im so pleased with my purchase of this fine book,so well written.
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Valerie Andrews
5.0 out of 5 stars A good read, indeed
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 April 2022
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Time travel is not my favourite sub genre of speculative fiction but I'm glad I picked up this book. It's a delicious journey through space, time, love and loss, covering all dimensions of the human condition - those we understand and those we are yet to understand. And it keeps you on the edge of your seat right up to the very end.
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Parvati
5.0 out of 5 stars Like Heinlein, but homelier
Reviewed in the United States on 21 March 2018
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"A Tale of Time Travel" it says on the cover, and it is – a very good one. I have read many time-travel stories – it is one of my favourite genres – and in this book, as Beth Nielson and her brother Russ and others travel backwards and forwards through time, the author focusses clearly on one or two aspects of time travel, of the paradoxes involved, better than I have ever seen it done before.
But it is not only a time-travel story. It starts in present-day Minneapolis with a serial killer stalking Beth, and in odd chapters throughout the book we return to the killer and see it through his eyes as he plots the trapping, torturing and killing of his next victim – and they have all been slender, blue-eyed blondes like his own sister, who was his first victim, and like Beth herself.
And then there is a lot of gossip, soap opera style – Beth's co-workers , her brother – and when she travels back into the past, to 1860, the family who take her in. We get to know them all, to feel part of each group, to want to know more, to know what happens next, not just to Beth but to all of them.
The little farming family back in 1860 is particularly well done and reminded me of a similar family back at roughly the same date, just before the Civil War, in one of Robert Heinlein's Lazarus Long novels ("Time Enough For Love", or "To Sail Beyond The Sunset", I don't remember now). He, too, is a gossiper (Heinlein, that is, not Lazarus Long!) wanting us to feel at home with every family, every group, and it is that, that feeling of belonging, which makes the reader want more. At the end of this book, Kathleen Watson writes "the saga continues", and I am sure it will. The serial killer is dead and gone (or is he? One can never be sure given the paradoxes of time travel) but every reader of this book will want to know what happens next in 1860 (the Civil War is looming), in the present, and in 2110, where Russ has gone, and 2115, the year he saved Zena and brought her back with him to the present.
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Nancy M. Heinzel
4.0 out of 5 stars A timely tale
Reviewed in the United States on 13 January 2022
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Full disclosure: if you’re looking for a geeked-out, science-based exploration of all the paradoxes of time travel, then this book might not be for you.

But if you enjoy deftly-plotted novels with likeable characters, plenty of twists, and an unapologetic dose of sentimentality, then “Destination Unknown” is worth checking out. Watson, a first-time author, has clearly done her homework when it comes to juggling multiple time streams, and she sprinkles her story with subtle nods to prior writers who have tested these same waters. More importantly, she knows how to tell a story, mixing humor with suspense, and just when you think you know what’s coming, she’ll surprise you with a curve ball.

Based on a few hints in the book’s epilog, a sequel might be on the way, and I clearly look forward to checking back in with Beth and her extended family.
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Keith Jahans
4.0 out of 5 stars Time Travelling plus Serial Killer
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 November 2021
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This is an intriguing tale about time travel and a serial killer. I would have never dared to mixed these subjects myself but the author seems to have made them work.

The novel concentrates on the time travel aspects of the story and in particular the transportation of the heroine back to the mid nineteenth century. She is stalked by the killer who has a list of female victims behind him. The description of life in the USA rural 1800s, especially the people she encounters, is particularly good.

The narrative falls down a little with her projections of the future but despite this I found it a good read as the plot kept me turning the pages right until the end.
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W. Parker
5.0 out of 5 stars A novel with something for everyone
Reviewed in the United States on 23 September 2018
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I love books that mix genres. With Destination Unknown, you have a blend of thriller, science fiction, and historical romance, making the book accessible to many kinds of fiction readers. How often do you find a genuinely frightening serial killer tale that also involves plausible time travel? The author pulls it off with ease.

Beth is stuck in an unrewarding job and just got out of an abusive relationship. Unfortunately for her, she has the “look” that a serial killer is obsessed with and he methodically stalks her. Her brilliant and nerdy brother Russ has built a time machine (the mechanics of which are really cool). One night, the serial killer has cornered Beth in her brother’s house and her only means of escape is the time machine. Beth lands in 1860, and the story really takes off as she struggles to adapt to the time period and be accepted by Daniel, a farmer who has lost his wife and is raising three young kids. Meanwhile, Russ is travelling to the past and future in search of her. And the serial killer continually plots how to get to her.

The characters are all believable and appealing: Beth, her coworkers, Russ, Mrs. Knutson, Daniel, and the children. Even Theodore, the serial killer, is given a backstory that explains his twisted mind. And I loved the details of how the time travel works, the vivid depiction of rural Minnesota in 1860, and how the Beth’s host family reacts to the 21st century objects she has brought with her. Ms. Watson delights with beautiful prose and a true gift for storytelling. I loved this book and, best of all, she left room for a sequel!
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