Temporal Paradox

Temporal Paradox:

From the Moorton Gazette, 1st March, 2009:

'The Moorton Minors' is a term frequently used to describe a group of nine young friends who perished in an underground fire at Moorton Colliery during the early hours of 1st January 2000. The children were hiding in the mine to escape what they believed would be a disaster caused by the so-called 'Millennium Bug', a computer malfunction widely expected to strike at midnight on 31st December 1999. The boys' bodies were never recovered as the inferno caused severe damage to mine workings dating back to the late nineteen century. A plaque in their memory was unveiled in the town's new Memorial Garden, officially opened today.

Clynton Murray and Jake Emerson stumble into a tachyon field generated in the future by a grieving inventor determined to rescue his younger brother and friends from a tragic sequence of events that unfolded in a rundown colliery town in the north-east of England on New Year's Eve 1999.

It's a race against the clock to solve the mystery of how they ended up in the past, and a desperate quest to find a path back home as time itself becomes increasingly corrupted by Clynton and Jake's repeated temporal incursions inside a newly created timeline. Moral dilemmas abound in the alternative history where the Moorton Minors didn't die, but will be lost again if the original chronology is restored.

Whilst a stand-alone novel, Temporal Paradox: The Moorton Minors Story draws on familiar faces from the Moorton Community Series and explores time travel within a tapestry of gritty urban drama, mystery, danger, and emotional coming of age themes laced with the author's characteristic, often offbeat humour.