The Refuge (Time Box 4) by John A Heldt-a review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date My 25, 2021.

Months after stealing two time machines, the Lanes, a modern family of seven, make a stand against the unhinged software mogul who wants them back. They travel to 1941 Oahu to eliminate the billionaire’s mercenary, an assassin who has chased them through time.

While son Jordan, a former intelligence officer, stalks his unknowing foe in the streets of Honolulu, his parents, younger siblings, and pregnant wife settle in the village of Laie, where love, friendship, and opportunity await. All seek refuge from the perils of time travel.

Hit man Silas Bain has his own agenda. He hopes to alter the events of December 7, 1941, and indirectly save a brilliant German physicist, his employer’s grandfather, from certain death. He has prepared for every contingency, except the charms of a beautiful heiress.

Filled with romance, suspense, and intrigue, THE REFUGE takes readers on a thrilling and memorable ride through the colorful, magical, and dangerous world of pre-Pearl Harbor Hawaii.

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REVIEW:THE REFUGE is the fourth instalment in John A Heldt’s adult TIME BOX time travel series focusing on the Lane family-Mark and Mary, and their children Jordan, Jeremy, Laura and Ashley. THE REFUGE can be read as a stand alone but I recommend reading the series in order as their is an ongoing premise throughout.

SOME BACKGROUND: Having created two time machines in 2021 known as the Time Boxes, patriarch Mark Lane discovers that his business partner, billionaire Robert Devereaux, wants to use the Time Boxes for questionable purposes. Having prepared for weeks, Mark Lane and his family pull up roots, and send themselves, along with the Time Boxes, back in time. Robert Devereaux desperate to retrieve the time boxes, and punish his one-time partner, hires a modern day assassin who goes on a time travel hunt for Mark Lane and his family.

Told from several third person perspectives THE REFUGE takes the reader and the Lane family to 1941 Oahu in the Hawaiian Islands, months before the bombing of Pearl Harbor. As eldest son and former intelligence officer Jordan Lane hunts for the man who is hunting the Lane family, Jeremy falls for Sarah Gustafson, a young woman with ties to the family’s past but a young woman who is about to lose everything on that fateful date in December 1941. As assassin Silas Bain searches for the elusive Lane family, the assassin will, once again, leave a trail of bodies, in his struggle to take down his intended targets.

Meanwhile, Robert Devereaux has instructed his ‘assassin’ to save the life of Maximilian Roth, Robert’s late grandfather, and the man who invented the original Time Box but Max is a physicist in Germany, and the Nazi’s aren’t about to let one of their scientists walk away.

THE REFUGE follows in the weeks and months prior to the bombing of Pearl Harbor, an act that brought the USA into the Second World War when America declared war on the nation of Japan. Knowing they could not interfere meant the loss of people the Lane family would have liked to save but they have agreed not to upset the natural order or significance and outcomes of historical events.

John A Heldt pulls the reader into a detailed, multi-leveled and fascinating look into a fictionalized account of the bombing of Pearl Harbor; another historical glimpse into ‘the day that will live in infamy’, and the family who will witness history up close and personal.

Reading Order and Previous Reviews
The Lane Betrayal
The Fair
Sea Spray

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Reviewed by Sandy