Janus Cypher

 ~ Book Two in The TimeBridge Journals 

   JANUS CYPHER Book Two opens with Alyse and Roderick still trying to fathom their unexplained sojourn at the end of Janus Paradox, where they bridged with Jarl Hrogn Hröreksson and Lady Ælfwyn Gærethsdotr 900 years in the past. The event leaves Alyse and Roderick desperate to understand what happened, what caused it and what it will take to escape the divergent timeline they're living in. 

   Roderick's call to Dr. Connie Singh, MD-Psych, an old friend of his mother and the director of UBC's Sleep Disorder Research Lab, results in several intensive sessions, with Dr. Singh.  She coaches them in a method of past-life regression, exploring her theorem of time-travel through one's soul lineage of reincarnation. Together, they begin to understand that what originally swept Roderick and Alyse out of the 21st century was some kind of eddy in the current of Time. Dr. Singh suggests its focal point is likely centered between their modern divergent timeline and Hrogn & Ælfwyn's time, suggesting the divergence was initiated somewhere with Hrogn and Ælfwyn in the past.

   As a result of the psychic stresses of their 'Bridging' sessions, Roderick and Dr. Singh witness Alyse suffering through several memory-crushes where she experiences some of the lost memories from her original timeline, as well as the superimposed memories of a life she never really lived in the divergence. These 'crushes' lead Roderick and Alyse towards uncovering the identity of those behind the on-going threats against Alyse's life, as well as her kidnappers, whom Roderick believes is one and the same. 

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  As they continue their Janus-Bridging - covertly sharing consciousness - with Hrogn and Ælfwyn, Alyse and Roderick begin to understand the depth of the connection their soul-kin share, while painfully reminding Alyse of the bond she once shared with Glen Roderick in their original timeline.   A further revelation from Alyse's "memory-crushes", points them towards her original kidnapping and a forced-bridging of Alyse, which may have caused her to unwittingly interfere with Ælfwyn and Hrogn's life-path, threatening to alter the fates of their soul-kin - and every reincarnation to come.  Could Alyse and Roderick's own investigations turn out to be the cause of the Time-eddy as well as the Divergence...?