The Children of Hawks
Patrick Martin
Paperback
(Independently published, May 23, 2020)
Charlotte Porter is an ordinary teenage schoolgirl, with a father who happens to be an eminent physicist. Unknown to her, the work her father will do in the future, has the potential to change everything for humanity. However, there are forces in the future who are determined to shape things their way. Unwittingly, Charlie is drawn into a temporal struggle, across multiple timelines, as these forces battle for supremacy.Through Charlie’s subsequent travels through time and across multiple universes, she sees what Earth in the future might look like – the terrible consequences of unchecked climate change, mass human migration and religious extremism.In the process Charlie is faced with difficult, moral choices. Does she accept the terrible future of humanity to protect her father’s life, or sacrifice him for the greater good? Could she use time travel to go back and save her mother, who died when Charlie was a child? And who is the mysterious ‘Ossy’, the android slipping through the timelines with his own agenda?Finally, why are time travel and sausage rolls so incompatible?