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    612-822-4611

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612-822-4611
Subway

Subway

Liley, Elisabeth
Liley, Kevian

Paperback

FantasyGeneral Fiction

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ISBN13: 9798186052654
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Synopsis:
London, 1908. Engineer Trent Carter has fought his way from navvy to the architect of Ascott Station, the Underground's newest jewel. When two brilliant young Americans, James and Dean Masters, arrive seeking employment, Carter seizes their extraordinary talents, unaware they are time travellers from the year 3056, dispatched by the Temporal Authority to install a device beneath his tracks.

The brothers' mission is precise and terrible: to displace the station's inaugural train, carrying exactly nineteen souls, forward through 112 years of history. On January 15th, 1908, driver Mitchell Jones and his eighteen passengers board in celebration, only to vanish in a flash of blue light that shatters reality itself. Carter is ruined. Scotland Yard's Detective Inspector Edmund Blackwell pursues explanations he cannot find. And the Masters brothers withdraw to their own time, their mission apparently complete.

April 14th, 2020. London lies silent under pandemic lockdown when the train materialises at an empty Ascott Station. The passengers emerge bewildered into a world of fluorescent light, moving advertisements, deserted streets, and a virus that has transformed human existence. Detective Inspector Sarah Chen is called to investigate people in historical costume wandering the Underground, and finds herself confronting the impossible made flesh.

As Chen protects the displaced and seeks to understand their fate, the Masters brothers return, now ancient beyond comprehension, bearing revelations that reshape everything. The displacement was not random but essential, a fixed point in time designed to prevent cosmic collapse. The passengers were chosen by probability itself, their presence in 2020 introducing the chaos that strengthens history's fragile architecture against forces beyond human perception.

Yet the brothers have changed across their centuries of service. Where once they were instruments of an Authority they did not question, they have become advocates for the humanity they once sacrificed. They offer what they never offered before: the choice to return to 1908, memory erased, lives restored, or to remain in 2020 and become the architects of the very future that produced them.

What follows is a revelation of cosmic circularity. The Temporal Authority itself was born from the contributions of those who stayed. The loop has no beginning and no end, only eternal renewal. And every participant, from Carter to Chen, from Jones to the brothers themselves, discovers that time is not a line but a circle, that every ending is a beginning, and that meaning emerges not from controlling fate but from honouring the choices it demands.

Spanning centuries yet rooted in individual courage, SUBWAY is a time travel classic that asks whether we are prisoners of history or its authors, whether sacrifice can be justified by survival, and whether love alone is strong enough to travel through the vastness of time.

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