A Walk in Time - Lori Ann Beam

A Walk In Time. Picture, if you will, a life nudged and manipulated by unseen hands a destiny written not with ink, but with shadows. Dr. Laurie Nichols, once celebrated as a talented Obstetrician, now battles the restless obsessions that crept in after the tragic loss of her parents in a car crash during her medical school years. Her compulsions tighten around her like invisible chains, making every choice feel like an echo of someone else's will.

Her only anchor is Dr. Nathan Jefferies, longtime confidant and brilliant psychologist with an uncanny knack for ancient tongues a companion as loyal as he is enigmatic. Their fates twist together in a way neither could have predicted, all thanks to a legendary Viking curse uttered in 998 AD.

Nathan, always chasing the cryptic and the mysterious, invites Laurie to a remote dig site where a monolithic onyx stone awaits translation. The stone's surface shimmers with runes that pulse with secrets long buried. But neither of them is prepared for what happens next: a careless touch, a phrase spoken aloud, and reality unravels. The power bound within the stone awakens. The curse, centuries dormant, chooses its moment. And Laurie, with Nathan by her side, is propelled into a labyrinth of time, fate, and ancient vengeance her every step shadowed by forces both mortal and mythic.