In the end Helen discovers that science in isolation cannot answer all of her questions for Tekla’s devotion to Ka Li had not died even though six hundred centuries had passed. As Helen solves the puzzle of the signal cairns she finds universal fame and suffers devastating misfortune. Helen’s detective work tracking Ka Li’s timeless signals across the Alaskan wilderness now intertwines with Ka Li’s story. Skipping forward 60,000 years, Helen Ryland, a mid-twentieth century archaeologist, unearths one of Ka Li’s surviving signal cairns and realizes she has found trace of people who populated the Americas even before the Clovis culture. As Ka Li survives fierce predators and scarce resources she leaves behind a series of signal cairns to help Tekla find her. Only Tekla cares enough to search for her over the years. First there was ‘Fata Morgana’ and now there is ‘A Gift of Time’. Ka Li escapes but is unarmed and forced to flee across the Bering land bridge where she becomes hopelessly lost in the endless tracts of North America. The Gift of Time is a Gift I have struck gold with my last two audio books based around time travel. Tekla, son of an ancient shaman, loses Ka Li when she is torn from his life by a brutal tribe of Denisovans in a Late Pleistocene kidnapping.
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