FREEHAND 2173 BC - Book of Charlotte

Fifteen years have passed since…

Charlotte O'Connell and her father Thomas, made the jump via wormhole from 2173 Los Angeles to 2173 BC Los Angeles.  Charlotte was only eight years old but she can still remember the revelation it was to breathe without a mask, to be able to see the twinkling stars and the full moon in the night sky.  To feel the warmth of the sun, unobstructed by a dense cloud of pollution.  They had barely survived the future, now they had to figure out how to survive in the past.

FREEHAND 2173 BC - Book of Charlotte is the second book in a series of four climate fiction novels by author Jamie Sims Coakley, which follows the story of Charlotte after she and her family, survivors of a dystopian future on the edge of collapse, are dropped, via wormhole into 2173 BC and it begins with a memory… 

When we arrived in Yah-vit we were met by the faint glow of fire in the distance and a hint of fragrant smoke which I would come to learn was the smell of white sage and manzanita burning. Above me, the stars twinkled brightly in the clean night air. “We made it, Charlie. We're still alive.” Father had said, crying as he gathered me up into his arms, but I wasn't so sure. To me, it seemed as though we had died and gone to heaven and in a way, we had.

That fated night, Charlotte and her father were taken in by the Tongva, who made the Los Angeles basin, known as Yah-vit, their home.  They became her family as she learned from their wisdom, and adopted their ways.  The plants and water, the soil and the animals became her relatives, and life was full and abundant.  Many years passed peacefully.  Then one day, a long awaited message finally arrived.  Soon Charlotte finds herself on a quest that would lead her halfway across the ancient world to find a half sister she never knew she had, and finish the mission her father had started 4,331 years ago, in the future.