Chasing Time - (Adrielle Maddox) by Montana Wakefield (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

What seventeen-year-old Adrielle Maddox wants most in life is to fit in. But she's a strikingly beautiful Albino, a foster child whose mother died in a suspicious fire. Dumped by her boyfriend on her birthday eve, Adrielle wishes her life were different. Then Coco, her sister, gives her a broken watch once belonging to their mother.

Coco drags Adrielle to a party where they join their besties. Adrielle has an encounter with an ancient immortal, Domenikos, who has captured her boyfriend. He demands her watch in exchange for his life.

Before she can react, Adrielle's broken watch starts ticking seconds before midnight. Earsplitting gongs shake the room. Domenikos slashes her boyfriend's throat and vanishes. Then Monika, an old seer with diamond scepter, appears.

She hands Adrielle a mysterious journal dated 241 BCE, and when Adrielle starts to read, its empowering words spur a rush of memories. Monika divulges: Adrielle is from another epoch. Her birthmark is the mark of the traveller. Her watch is a unique time-travelling device.

Hope surges through Adrielle. Could this be her chance for a do-over? Can she find out who she really is and change her life? So she doesn't have to be the outsider? Monika sees Adrielle's hunger for change and warns her of the time travel paradox. Even with the warning, Adrielle is determined to find her true self and travels back in time as a spunky warrior locked in a high-stake cat-and-mouse game with her nemesis, Domenikos.

Review Quotes

"A remarkable stunning first in the series. Chasing Time delivers adventure in buckets. Engaging characters wrapped in a beautiful all encompassing world building. Fast-paced, action-packed, and completely surprising, a book you will pick up and never want to put down." - Richard A Jacobson, noted painter and author of Hard Place

​"With the keen sense of adventure and characterization required of this genre, Montana Wakefield delivers a taut, engaging story, sure to delight and captivate her audience and gain legions of loyal fans who'll want more and more and more." - Jeff Arch, Academy Award nominee for best screenplay for Sleepless in Seattle.

"A glittering fantasy with lush imagination and storytelling. Adrielle Maddox is a sumptuous young adult fantasy for readers to devour." - L J Andrews, author of Curse of Shadows and Thorns (The Broken Kingdoms, Book 1)

"Adrielle is a heroine for all readers to embrace bold and ready to fling herself into the unknown, despite her realistic fears, ready to change things for the better for all humankind because, well, that's what is expected of us all. Adventure placed against a broad span of history, stirred with mighty imagination, Montana serves up a magical potion that will have readers cheering, laughing and shedding a tear." - Judy Cairo, producer, Oscar-winning Crazy Heart

"Chasing Time is a grand entrance for this trilogy, sure to capture a large young adult audience, plus readers new to the genre. It features strong, relatable characters and deals sure-handedly with powerful emotions-most laudably, love, in all its facets. This is a really good story. Be ready for a great trip." - Donald E. McQuinn, author of The Moondark Saga