Lights were strung across the street and everywhere sparkled and twinkled like stars in deep space. Over the years, she’d learned that friends could be dangerous and she had no family anywhere she knew of, certainly not on Earth. Strolling along the street, mingling with the hoards, she remembered that there was a very good reason why she’d never gone Christmas shopping-she had no one to buy presents for.

On the street, the air was cold, holding a hint of frost and just a little swirl of snow. She put on a hat, dark glasses and a long coat and headed out. Now she was going to go Christmas shopping. All her life, she’d worked toward her destiny. Suddenly she had the urge to be out there. How sad was that and how pathetic that she thought it sad?Īnd this year would be her absolute last chance, because if all went to plan, this time next year, she would be far away, tucked up in her cryo tube, and deep asleep. It occurred to her as she studied the frenzied shoppers, that she’d lived through five hundred Christmases here on Earth-give or take a few-and she’d never been Christmas shopping.

As though this might be the last Christmas they would ever see. _ Last Chance to Shop…įrom the window of her luxury hotel room, Saffira gazed down on the Christmas lights all along Oxford Street, and the swarms of people attacking the shops with grim determination. Make sure you stick around to the end and earn another entry into the Black Friday $50 Amazon giftcard giveaway. They’re heading back to Earth, and they’re going back in time… Saffira is about to make the crew of the Blood Hunter an offer they’ll find impossible to refuse. But it’s obvious there’s a connection between them, one that will soon be tested by the limits of time and space. Unfortunately, Devlin doesn’t believe in fate. Haunted by visions of the past and future, she’s been sustained through the years by a dream lover. Saffira Lourdes has a destiny: to save humanity and lead her exiled people to the Promised Land. Now, he’s trapped in a strange world with a crazy woman who claims he’s fated to be her lover. He just wants to live long enough to get his revenge on the man who murdered his brother. Black Friday is here and we’re discussing the season with Nina Croft’s Saffira Lourdes from Temporal Shift.Īfter diving into a black hole in search of the source of Meridian, the key to immortality, the crew of the Blood Hunter finds themselves stranded in an alternate universe.Įngineer Devlin Stark doesn’t want immortality.

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