After returning home upon completion of their first time trip, Zammie and Kyla are eager to travel back in time again. On this second voyage they arrive in Maryland in the cold December of 1850, eleven years prior to the U.S. Civil War. Their journey exposes them firsthand to many of the drudges of slavery: the auction block, the whippings, and a difficult escape from captivity along the famed Underground Railroad. The two cousins meet a young Harriet Tubman who has decided to help lead other fugitive slaves towards the free state of Pennsylvania for the first time. This group includes three...

The time-traveling cousins, Zammie and Kyla, are back . . . back to 1620 where they become separated from each other along the shores around Cape Cod. Zammie spends several months living with a Wampanoag Indian tribe while Kyla crosses the Atlantic on The Mayflower. Zammie must prove his worth as a hunter to the Natives in order to keep from being traded to a neighboring tribe, while Kyla does her best to help the fledgling English settlers while their numbers decline from starvation and sickness. Over the course of a year they learn that the First Thanksgiving is much more than just turkey...

In 2003 I met an amazing Filipino woman named Fe who I soon fell deeply in love with. Even though we came from very different backgrounds (her from a small fishing village in the Pacific and myself the offspring of middle-class business owners in Kentucky) we still found much in common with each other. The sky came crashing down upon us in 2009, however, when Fe, at just forty years old, was diagnosed with lung cancer. For 3 months I tended to her day and night, taking her to chemo treatments, staying up all hours of the night to give her medication, staying with her in the hospital, driving...

"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country." --Bertrand Russell Young Zammie and Kyla have been given the magical gift of time travel, and they soon find the past is not always a pretty place. In the midst of great chaos decisions need to be made. Fight or flee? Help or hide? Violence or peace? Sent on an epic journey across three continents during three critical moments in history, Zammie and Kyla will live through the harrowing experience of the A-bomb on Hiroshima and participate in the Battle of Gettysburg. Before returning home, they will...

Love and War. Blood and Tears. Cortes and Moctezuma. And the lovely La Malinche. Is everything you've heard about The Conquest true? Experience one of history's greatest adventures through they eyes of two young time travelers. Rich in detail and expansive in scope, To Follow the Cross is sure to please every fan of historical fantasy.