Title: Saving My Ancient Life
Author: Ken Luber
Publisher: Palmetto Publishing
ISBN: 979-8822939486
Pages: 320 Pages
Genre: Time Travel Fiction
Synopsis
Lu Ann, thirty-three-year-old, high school dropout, works in a bakery and lives with her two kids in a small Midwest town. Her husband was killed in the Iraqi War. Their star high school wrestler son, Billy, falls into a tower of tires and disappears through a wormhole, into 16 c Scotland, where he falls in love with a teenage girl and vows to find her abducted, nine-month-old son. At the same time, frantic to find Billy, LuAnn visits a shaman who takes her back to the 1800’s. LuAnn, as “Jody” in her late teens, is prompted into a bank robbery to escape her dire circumstances. Her brother is killed, and Jody struggles to survive a life in brothels and the loss of her baby son, abducted by self-righteous clergy. Left for dead in the streets of San Francisco, a Houseman finds Jody. Assisted by a retired professor, the two men nurture her back to life. The Professor introduces her, as his niece, into high society. Raising funds for a settlement house for indigent children, searching for her lost son among the faces, Jody sees through the hypocrisy of her socialite friends, dons a mask and cape and, like “Zorrita,” executes stagecoach robberies of the arrogant rich. Through perilous circumstances, she finds her son, now 7 years -old and happily living with a loving family. She never reveals her true identity, but song lyrics she sang in bordello-bars come back to her, “In many of the worlds I’ve searched for you…”
About the Author
Ken Luber attended the renowned Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa, after having graduated from Ripon College. In his early years, he travelled around the world, mostly hitchhiking and studying the world cultures. Ken received a Writer/Director Fellowship at the American Film Institute and has written and directed for film, television, and theatre. Major film and television companies have optioned his screenplays and television projects. His feature film “Howzer” was shown at the New American Director Series at the Whitney Museum in New York City and distributed by Warner Bros. Ken’s recent young-adult time-travel novel, “The Sun Jumpers,” won the publisher’s Award of Literary Excellence, and has been optioned by a major animation studio for a TV series. “Esperanza: the Musical of Hope,” for which he wrote the book and lyrics with music composed by Saverio Rapezzi, had its world premiere in Palm Springs, CA, in 2015. His other books include his novel “An Angel A Dealer The Deal” and his first book of collected poetry, “Everybody’s Shadow.” Born in Wisconsin, Ken has worked as a house painter, pizza maker, book salesman, door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman, pr writer, telemarketer and ESL teacher. He has a son and daughter, and now lives with his artist-writer-sound healing practioner wife Kathleen, in Southern California.
