Rivers of Time A Novel

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About Rivers of Time A Novel

"THE TERRIFIED VILLAGERS FLEE THE BEAUTIFUL YOUNG WOMAN staggering onto a West African jungle path through the morning mist after a stormy night. They believe she is under the spell of witchery and bringing evil spirits from the impenetrable jungle where they dare not venture. Indeed, her green eyes look as if she is in a trance. She collapses at the hut of an Italian botanist, who gets her to a hospital, where a nun gives her the pseudonym of Sylvia.Over the next few weeks, as Sylvia struggles to find her memory, her identity, and her raison d'être, an unjustly imprisoned fellow American, also a patient in the hospital, draws her into his escape plot. The dedicated British doctor reluctantly helps out to avoid losing her love. During a thunderstorm in the evening of the prison escape, Sylvia regains her memory, only to end up swimming for her life in the Niger River, too turbulent even for the crocodiles. The author of RIVERS OF TIME created a compelling psychological adventure drama of a jet-setting woman torn between a failed marriage, her sidetracked diplomatic career, and the reclusive doctor who wants her as his own wife"--

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