Time of the Heathen: Before the Beginning

Two 2023 university graduate students, Ewan and Alyssa, trained to squint at the universe, find themselves transported among the heathen of the early middle ages. Trying to get back home, they encounter poets, priests, priestesses, warriors, gods, as well as university professors, philosophers, mystics, and religious teachers. To survive, they make choices and experience moments of inspiration their sense of the supernatural grows as their modern world-view fails. Time of the Heathen is a literary novel set in a sci-fi/fantasy (SFF) adventure genre. This book is Volume 1 of a two-book sereies. Part 2 continues the story, but back in the 21st century, where the protagonists choose which side they support when an alien invasion occurs at the height of a nuclear war.