Trespassers

Six would cross backward in time. Four would cross ahead.

Three would perish in a time that was not theirs to live.

Two would return in the same way they had been taken.

One would trespass again.

All would be escorted by the Burmano-Ku-Partika.

     Playing cowboys and Indians was a childhood game for JT Tescott and his brother Dent while growing up in the 1960s on a Kansas ranch. But in the infancy of their adulthood, fantasy becomes reality when the power of an arcane talisman summons an ancient race and opens an aphelion portal, transporting the brothers and four of their friends into the Wild West of 1878, an era renown for devouring boys and birthing men.

     Trespassing into the alternate dimension with the Tescott brothers are life-time friends, Blaine and Sam, as well as outcast Kival and resident bully Oleander. As the six of them piece together the truth of their alien abduction, they find themselves still present in their native Kansas but navigating life 101 years back in the past, a time wholly absent of any other human souls previously known to them.

     But fate adventurously leads them to the historic frontier town of Hays City and the rustic environs beyond, accelerating them into the maturity of young men. There on the High Plains, they experience life and death as danger looms in the expansive shadow of a vile, narcissistic, 20^th century presidential assassin, while amid their inescapable jeopardy, love spins tangled webs in a time that was not meant to be repeated. And linking them all together are the mysterious and supernatural Burmano-Ku-Partika, waiting to be called upon to reopen the time portal and return the transient visitors through the archway of the Smoky Hill Pyramids.