“M’lady, it has been fairly
well confirmed that the Redona was hidden away by the merfolk at the conclusion
of the Great War instead of destroyed as was commanded. My brother has
confirmed to me Joseph’s belief that it was concealed at the Crossways.”
Toarna pressed her fingertips
together in thought. “It must be recovered and destroyed as was at first
intended.”
Emily, Allan, Jill, and Joey have been reunited
with their long lost ancestors. But with that reunion comes the true beginning
of their quest: free the rightful king of Calhortz so that he may be restored
to his throne. The Redona, the only object that can free him from his long
imprisonment, is rumored to be concealed in The Crossways, a mountain across
the sea which cannot be entered.
A slave since birth, Adriel’s resentment and
hatred towards the strytes only grows as his family is continually ripped from
him. He longs for the freedom the Time Captives are prophesied to bring, but he
doubts their existence, just as he doubts God’s love. Circumstances in Calhortz
are so dire. How could they ever improve?
Who can enter The Crossways? Will the king ever
be freed? Or will the slaves of Calhortz lose all hope of freedom before it is
even offered to them?
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Crossways is the second book of the Time Captives trilogy, a tale of faith, family, fantasy, and a
fight for truth and freedom.
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1. Hi Grant! Welcome
to my blog! What would you like my readers to know about you?
Hi! I’m a sailor on my brother’s merchant ship the Falcon’s Wing. When my sister got
married, Cap’n took me on as cabin boy, but I’ve since moved up. I love being
at sea and hanging out with Eleanor and playing jokes on the rest of the crew.
It’s a great life, if you don’t count pirates and storms and sea monsters and
such. And I get to live it with my brother and my best friend, so nothing could
be better. Well, one thing could be better, but I’m only sixteen still.
2. You're a sailor.
What is your favorite part of life at sea?
Being out in the open ocean. It’s just so amazing to sit up
in the crow’s nest or in the rigging and look around at nothing but water as
far as the eye can see. You feel so free. No cares or worries up there. You
feel so small and insignificant, but at the same time like you’re the biggest
thing in the world, like you’re the only thing, really. It’s best though, with
Eleanor there. We get to see it all together, then. We have some great
conversations too. Sometimes about how awesome God is to create all this. No
way it could have just happened like the strytes like to think. Come to think
about it, I think it’s seeing the open ocean with Eleanor that I like best. I
liked it before I met her, but I like it better now.
3. Your brother is
the captain - how would you describe your relationship?
*grins* It’s good. See, I’m the youngest and sort of the
baby of the family, so I kind of tend to get away with stuff. Cap’n tries to be
like a father to me, since we don’t have one anymore, but he’s still my brother
and acts like it. It was the same thing with my sister Moriah before I went to
sea with Cap’n. She tried to be a mother, but she still acted more like a
sister. Cap’n’s not really much of a captain to me either. I mean, he still
tells me what to do on the ship like he does the rest of the crew, but it’s
different. Not that he’s like a dictator to them either, he actually knows how
to lead, but he acts more like a brother to me than a cap’n. He actually likes
it when I play jokes on him, even though he might act like he doesn’t. And,
don’t tell him I said this, but he really is my hero, he was even before Moriah
got married, so I do respect him and listen to him. I just want to make the Falcon’s Wing a fun place to be. Life at
sea isn’t easy, after all.
4. How would you
describe the Time Captive Eleanor?
The best girl I know. I don’t know very many, but still,
she’s my best friend and that counts for something. She’s really pretty, but
she’s not even close to prissy either. She’s great to talk to and hang out
with, and she’s gotten to be pretty good on shipboard. Now, since she’s a Time
Captive, she doesn’t ever change physically, but that doesn’t bother me at all.
She’s growing up in all other ways. I can’t imagine ever living without her
now. *sighs contentedly* I’ve really got a great life. I’m living my dream at
sea with the best brother I could ask for and the best most amazing best friend
that I never even could have imagined.
5. What is the most
interesting place you have ever visited?
Well, we mostly just make trips between Briznom and the
Yatachee Islands since we’re merchants, not explorers, but there was this one
time when we were blown off course and ended up at a pirate island called
Corunucia. There’s a sort of abandoned fortress there that was built by
merfolk, so it has some pretty neat technology. It’s got running water and
secret doors and all sorts of stuff. But there were pirates hiding away there,
and when we went ashore to see what we could do about the storm damage to the Falcon’s Wing, they captured us and put
us in these cells with a genetic lock. Don’t ask me how it works, only the
merfolk know that. But they didn’t lock Eleanor up since she’s a girl and they
were going to use her for ransom or something. Thank goodness they didn’t know
she was a Time Captive, or we’d have really been in trouble. They took all our
cargo and they were going to kill Cap’n because we knew where their island was,
only we didn’t really because of the storm. To make a long story short, Eleanor
snuck us out and we foiled the murder and taught that pirate a lesson. I’d like
to go back there without murderous pirates, though, because it was a really
neat fortress.
Morgan
Elizabeth Huneke is a homeschool graduate who lives in Georgia. She has enjoyed
creating characters and writing stories since early childhood. Her other
interests include reading, playing the piano and violin, and politics. She is
the author of Across the Stars and The Experiment.
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Thanks for interviewing Grant! Now I REALLY want to write a whole book about him. :)
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