Only a
true hero can shine the light in humanity’s darkest time.
Book
Details:
Title: The
Last Timekeepers and the Dark Secret
Series:
The Last Timekeepers, Book 2
Author
Name: Sharon Ledwith
Genre(s):
Middle Grade, Young Adult, Science Fiction, Fantasy, WWII
Release
Date: October 17, 2016
Publisher:
Mirror World Publishing
About
The Last Timekeepers and the Dark Secret:
Fourteen
year-old Jordan Jensen always considered himself a team player on and off the
field, until the second Timekeeper mission lands him in Amsterdam during World
War Two. Pulled into the world of espionage, torture, and intolerance, Jordan
and the rest of the Timekeepers have no choice but to stay one step ahead of
the Nazis in order to find and protect a mysterious book.
With
the help of the Dutch Resistance, an eccentric baron, Nordic runes, and an
ancient volume originating from Atlantis, Jordan must learn that it takes true
teamwork, trust, and sacrifice to keep time safe from the evils of fascism. Can
Jordan find the hero within to conquer the darkness surrounding the
Timekeepers? If he doesn’t, then the terrible truth of what the Nazis did will
never see the light of day.
Read an Excerpt:
“I
wonder what else is down here.” Drake beamed his cell phone across the
basement, hitting jars of jams, pickles, and relishes. His stomach growled.
Jordan
pulled the cheese from his pocket and handed it to Drake. “Trade you for your
phone.”
“Best.
Trade. Ever.” Drake passed his phone to Jordan.
Jordan
walked over and grabbed a jar of pickles off the dusty shelf. At least they
wouldn’t arrive at the baron’s place hungry. He hoped his uncle had managed to
stop Amanda’s bleeding. His hand tightened over the jar, the ridges of the lid
cutting into his palm. A scrape from behind the shelves made Jordan jump.
“Hello?”
he asked, pushing jars aside. He flashed the cell phone into the small, dark
area.
“Who
ya talking to, Jordan?” Drake asked with his mouth full of cheese.
“Shhh,
Drake.” Jordan listened. Hearing nothing, he shrugged and turned back around.
“I
thought I heard—” Jordan stopped and pointed the phone at Ravi. His jaw
dropped. “A-Are you serious, Sharma?”
Drake
spat out his cheese, snorting with laughter.
“Is
there a problem?” Ravi asked, tying the bowtie of his tuxedo.
“You
look like a penguin with attitude!” Drake slapped his knee.
“Say
what you want, but I’m glad we didn’t hit the cleaners on the way to school
now,” Ravi replied, pulling down his sleeves, “or else I wouldn’t have these
dry clothes.”
Jordan
chuckled. Suddenly, he heard a door creak open, followed by heavy footsteps
squeaking down the stairs. Panicking, Jordan stuffed Drake’s phone in his track
suit jacket’s pocket and waved Drake over by the shelves. Drake slipped behind
Jordan just in time, before the small light bulb above the bottom of the stairs
clicked on. Jordan swallowed hard. There, staring directly at Ravi was a portly
man in a blood-stained apron. Tufts of blond hair sprouted from the sides of
his balding head. His brown trousers were pulled up past his waist, making him
resemble an evil garden gnome. In one of his hands, he held a huge butcher
knife, its blade flecked with blood.
Wielding
the knife, the man pointed at Ravi. “Who are you?”
Ravi
licked his thick lips nervously. “The name’s Bond. James Bond.”
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Talking with the author
Hooray for the Dutch Resistance…
Did you ever wonder what it was like to fight
the Nazis on your home soil during World War Two? In the newest release of my
YA time travel adventure series, The Last Timekeepers and the Dark Secret, my characters must join
forces with the Dutch Resistance in order to figure out their Timekeeper
mission while in Amsterdam during 1942. It was sure a different world through
their adolescent eyes, and trying to keep one step ahead of the Nazis proved to
be quite a dangerous challenge. The Dutch Resistance actually came about
because of two simple facts—outrage that their country had been invaded and
sheer horror to what happened to the Dutch Jews. Resistance
in the Netherlands initially took the form of small-scale, decentralized cells
engaged in independent activities, mostly small-scale sabotage such as cutting
phone lines, distributing anti-German leaflets or tearing down Pro-Nazi posters.
So what were some of the clandestine duties of
the Dutch Resistance?
Extra! Extra!
Read all about it:
The sneaky Dutch managed to set up an underground press, and recruited about
30,000 people to listen to the Allied radio stations and take down important
information. The spreading of this information was done through stenciled or
printed bulletins like the one called Het Parool (The Password) mentioned in my
novel.
Identity
crisis:
False identity cards were created to assist the Dutch Jews (especially the
children) in getting out of the country safely. In my book, Melody Spencer gets
a Dutch forger to create authentic-looking traveling papers for the
Timekeepers.
Into the
shadows:
One of the most important tasks of the Dutch Resistance was to hide Jewish
families from the Nazis so they wouldn’t be shipped to the concentration camps.
This was often a dangerous endeavor with some Dutch families getting caught and
tortured for their kind acts. Out of the 25,000 Jews who went into hiding,
18,000 survived the war.
Remove
those Records:
The Dutch Resistance managed to demolish Amsterdam’s registration office, where
vital population statistics were kept, as well as hide files from the
registration office in barns.
Famous Dutch Resistance Fighter:
Actress Audrey Hepburn was still a young teenager when she began to help the
Dutch resistance. An accomplished ballerina by age 14, she started out helping
the resistance by dancing. How was this helpful? She danced in secret
productions to raise money for the resistance. As she famously said, “The best
audience I ever had made not a single sound at the end of my performances.”
Hepburn also occasionally ran messages for the resistance. Had she been
discovered doing either of these things, a swift execution would have followed.
The Eerebegraafplaats Cemetery
honors those who died fighting the Nazis in the Dutch Resistance. During the
summer after the Netherlands was liberated in May 1945 from the Nazis, the
bodies of those who had been shot on the dunes were exhumed. It was known that
the Nazi authorities executed without trial many Dutch patriots in the dunes
west of Haarlem called Overveen, Bloemendaal. Many men and one woman were
executed. The exact number will never be known–who they all were and what
happened to their bodies.
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the Dark Secret, Book #2 Buy Links:
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the Arch of Atlantis, Book #1 Buy
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Meet the Author:
Sharon
Ledwith is the author of the middle-grade/young adult time travel series, THE
LAST TIMEKEEPERS, and is represented by Walden House (Books & Stuff) for
her teen psychic series, MYSTERIOUS TALES FROM FAIRY FALLS. When not writing,
researching, or revising, she enjoys reading, exercising, anything arcane, and
an occasional dram of scotch. Sharon lives a serene, yet busy life in a
southern tourist region of Ontario, Canada, with her hubby, one spoiled yellow
Labrador and a moody calico cat.
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