Not a Second Time

by Micheal Maxwell

Can going back in time make you more mature?
Chant, Kurt, and Moorehart find themselves caught in the middle of an altered timeline, and a dystopian society in a war-torn Sonora, that no longer resembles the home they’ve known. The clash leaves Moorehart injured and craving a simpler life. It seems like a good time for Chant and the gang to enjoy some light-hearted time travel as he heals.
Amid all the drama of high school, working two jobs, personal relationships, Chant now finds himself leading the time travel team on his own. But through it all, he’s growing wiser and more discerning. Could he be growing up? Chant is now seeking time travel advancements, research, and looking toward the future. Not the usual activities of a high school kid.
Buckle-up! Set the controls to visit some twentieth-century icons; Ernest Hemingway, John Wayne, Agatha Christie. And for some adventure on the high seas, they go back even further to meet some real pirates of the Caribbean! The only question is, can he make it to prom on time to save his budding romance?
Chant has made mistakes past and present but he hopes Not a Second Time!

218 pages, Paperback

First published January 26, 2022

About the author

Micheal Maxwell has traveled the globe on the lookout for strange sights, sounds, and people. His adventures have taken him from the Jungles of Ecuador and the Philippines to the top of the Eiffel Tower and the Golden Gate Bridge, and from the cave dwellings of Native Americans to The Kehlsteinhaus, Hitler’s Eagles Nest! He’s always looking for a story to tell and interesting people to meet.

Micheal Maxwell was taught the beauty and majesty of the English language by Bob Dylan, Robertson Davies, Charles Dickens, and Leonard Cohen.

Mr. Maxwell has traveled the globe, dined with politicians, rock stars, and beggars. He has rubbed shoulders with priests and murderers, surgeons and drug dealers, each one giving him a part of themselves that will live again in the pages of his books.

Micheal Maxwell has found a niche in the mystery, suspense, genre with The Cole Sage Series that gives readers an everyman hero, short on vices, long on compassion, and a sense of fair play, and the willingness to risk everything to right wrongs. The Cole Sage Series departs from the usual, heavily sexual, profanity-laced norm and gives readers character-driven stories, with twists, turns, and page-turning plot lines.

Micheal Maxwell writes from a life of love, music, film, and literature. Along with his lovely wife and travel partner, Janet, he lives in a small town in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.