A Summer in Amber – C. Litka 


 

The past is the future.

A young physicist, Sandy Say, is dispatched to a Scottish highland estate to secretly decipher a decrepit manuscript that may hold the key to reinventing the 21st century, devastated by a series of solar storms. There he finds whispers of a reincarnated wizard, a hidden laboratory that is said to be the gate to the Otherworld, and a girl.

A Summer in Amber is set in Scotland and England in the not too distant future, after a series of extremely powerful solar storms has laid to waste the modern world of cell phones, computers satellites, and even the power grids. Britain exists as an eclectic mix of the 21st and 19th century, with both steam engines, and pocket computers. A Summer in Amber is a quiet, enchanting novel of adventure and romance, with a unique steampunk air.

C. Litka writes old-fashioned novels with modern sensibilities, humor, and romance. His lighthearted novels of adventure, mystery, and travel are set in richly imagined worlds and feature a colorful cast of well drawn characters. If you seek to escape, for a few hours, your everyday life, you will not find better company, nor more wonderful worlds to travel and explore, than in the novels of C. Litka.

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Subgenres: Adventure, Apocalyptic / Post-Apocalyptic, Dieselpunk / Steampunk, Romance

Date first published:  April 28, 2015

On Kindle Unlimited: No

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Website: https://clitkabooks.blogspot.com/

Biography: I write adventure romances. Romances in the old sense of novels that depict settings and events remote from everyday life. The fact that my stories are set in the future and in imaginary locales, mean that they can conventionality be considered science fiction. In my teen years I read hundreds of science fiction books. Since then I've read many other types of novels, detective and mystery stories, humor, adventure, military, and sea stories, most of them written in the first half of the last century. Having lived a perfectly ordinary and, thankfully, an uneventful life, it is my reading that has shaped the style and themes of my stories - old fashioned stories with modern sensibilities. I write first person narratives featuring likable, modern characters, lighthearted, realistic adventures, told with humor and a bit of that other type of romance as well. I live in a small Wisconsin city. I've been married for as long as I can remember, with two grown children and a couple of grandchildren.

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Cover artist name: C. Litka

Cover artist website: https://www.deviantart.com/litka

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