Jester

The only way to get back home is to play ... The GameA chase through time. An elusive opponent. A suspected betrayal. Will David ever see home again?Falling through parallel times every three days, David Sinclair is desperate to get back home, but to do so he has to catch a man that calls himself The Jester - even though there's nothing funny about him. A tentative mental connection allows David to track him, but finding The Jester proves difficult when he's able to step into other people's bodies and disguise himself.Rob, a friend David makes in one of the parallel times, works out a successful trap, but joining forces isn't allowed, so they're made to play again, with devastating results for Rob.Led through dark dystopian times, David begins to wonder if his suspicions are correct: Is David's girlfriend working for The Jester? Did she recruit him to play The Jester's depraved games? But finding out the truth isn't easy when you're slipping through time.Described as Inter-dimensional hide and seek by one reader, this dark, science fiction fantasy novella is an introduction to a fast-paced, time-travel adventure, the conclusion of which can be found in the full-length novel, Pool of Players. "You will not come across so well-drawn a villain as The Jester, he is creepy, unexpected, and amorally disturbing. Through him, the author creates a sense of evil that is both frightening and intriguing, like a cobra waiting to strike." - Michael Wombat, author of The Raven's Wing and Fog. Miranda started out life wanting to be a film director, but when directing people didn't work, she turned to words instead, finding them much easier to deal with – most days.Miranda has been featured in several Flash Fiction anthologies and ezines, and published several books, including three collections, four novels, and a novella. She writes across genres, which include Horror, Science Fiction Fantasy, Time Travel and Paranormal Fantasy, often mixing them together – the one constant being that they are all dark.Under the pen name, M K Boers, she writes psychological thrillers.Miranda Kate, spent her early childhood in Surrey, in the south of England, and her teens and early adulthood moving round the UK, but currently resides in the Netherlands. The Jester is a two part series comprising The Game (a novella) and Pool of Players. It's a dark sci-fi fantasy time travel story set in post-apocalytic and dystopian time parallels. David Sinclair has been pushed out of his own time, or slipped through like many of his countrymen before him. To return he has to catch The Jester, but that's not a simple task when he keeps slipping through into a different time every few days. In the first book he finds help and in the second, he endeavours to unearth the evil man behind it all, The Jester, and expose him. But David finds more than he bargains for and realises that time is not quite as it seems. If you like sci-fi fantasy, evil villains and time jumping, this might be for you. But The Jester is not for the faint-hearted, he likes to partake of some depraved acts of horror too.

A world created in a pocket of time to provide a ... Pool of Players'There's still time. I assure you. Lots and lots of time. And you're going to get a chance to enjoy all of it.'David is back in his own time, but all he can think about is his father still out there, in the parallels, and the girls here recruiting, sending other men through. He wants to stop this torture for his nation. He wants them all to have control back over their destiny and not keep being randomly pushed through into other times to chase some mad man.But how can he do that? How can he get taken again? The Jester has already played the game with him. Then it occurs to him, through the girls!Playing The Jester at his own game, David goes public, exposing the girls and telling everyone what he knows. But when he get his wish granted and returns to the parallels, he discovers something far more chilling: Not only does The Jester want to train him as his replacement, but, in a bizarre twist of time, it turns out there's a reason why David's the perfect candidate.Pool of Players is the dark, sci-fi fantasy conclusion to The Game – the first in The Jester series – and gives a whole new meaning to time travel. Miranda started out life wanting to be a film director, but when directing people didn't work, she turned to words instead, finding them much easier to deal with – most days.Miranda has been featured in several Flash Fiction anthologies and ezines, and published several books, including three collections, four novels, and a novella. She writes across genres, which include Horror, Science Fiction Fantasy, Time Travel and Paranormal Fantasy, often mixing them together – the one constant being that they are all dark.Under the pen name, M K Boers, she writes psychological thrillers.Miranda Kate, spent her early childhood in Surrey, in the south of England, and her teens and early adulthood moving round the UK, but currently resides in the Netherlands. The Jester is a two part series comprising The Game (a novella) and Pool of Players. It's a dark sci-fi fantasy time travel story set in post-apocalytic and dystopian time parallels. David Sinclair has been pushed out of his own time, or slipped through like many of his countrymen before him. To return he has to catch The Jester, but that's not a simple task when he keeps slipping through into a different time every few days. In the first book he finds help and in the second, he endeavours to unearth the evil man behind it all, The Jester, and expose him. But David finds more than he bargains for and realises that time is not quite as it seems. If you like sci-fi fantasy, evil villains and time jumping, this might be for you. But The Jester is not for the faint-hearted, he likes to partake of some depraved acts of horror too.