Time travel without the sci-fi feel, ANNIE’S APPLE by John A. Heldt is a magical walk through a different era with characters that feel like they could be friends you have made.Imagine going back in time, getting a second chance at youth, adventure and love, yet having to keep a tremendous secret from most everyone you meet. This is the web three siblings face being entangled in as they not only go through time, but physically return to their youthful selves. Are their hearts able to remain unen...

This is one of my favorite authors who writes time travel novels. The details are well researched when it comes to actual events, and it feels like you might be there with the characters.This is the second in this series, and it primarily focuses on Annie's life. There is a lot with Paul as well, but it is really Annie's turn to shine. She is 20 but quite a pistol. This shouldn't be very surprising since she is really much older and is living her life over. However, she has found a position that...

Annie’s Apple opens six years after The Fountain, the first installment in Heldt’s Second Chance Series that saw elderly siblings Bill, Paul, and Annie Carpenter materialize in early 1900s San Francisco as much younger versions of themselves.Annie’s Apple sees Bill, Cassie, and Annie in New York, 1911, while Paul and Andy, Cassie’s brother, are in Arizona embroiled in the military campaign against the Mexican revolution. While Bill and Cassie put their career plans on hold to focus on trying to ...

I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy from . This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Annie's Apple by John A. Heldt needs a warning that it will make you emotional. Mr. Heldt has done it again with these characters. Will Paul and Annie find people to love them? Like Bill has with Cassie? The Carpenters and Lees Bill and Cassie After the horrific San Francisco fire, Bill and Cassie Carpenter moved to New York with Annie. These two lovebirds have been at t...

One Sentence Summary: A few years after the events of The Fountain finds the growing Carpenter family in NYC with Annie taking a job as a society writer after surviving one of the city’s devastating disasters in 1911, Bill retiring from teaching with his wife to start a family, and Paul finishing his time in the military and dreaming of the future.annies apple john a heldtAnnie’s Apple is set a few years after the events of the first book, The Fountain. Bill, Paul, and Annie have acclimated to l...

Imagine, if you will, the ability to live your life for a second time. Would you take that risk knowing you might end up back to a time when the world looked vastly different from our technology riddled world of today?The Carpenters did just that, they took a leap of faith, they lept through the fountain of youth and landed in 1905 in The Fountain. Now, we catch up with the Carpenter siblings in New York City in 1911! The very height of the industrial revolution, on the cusp of the maiden voyage...

In the second installment in John Heldt's Second Chance Series, the journey of the Carpenter siblings, Bill, Paul, and Annie, continues. All three dove into a fountain of youth in the first novel and emerged as much younger versions of themselves, their memories and older personalities still intact, and arrived in the early twentieth century. Six years have passed since they restarted their lives, but will their second chances prove more fulfilling than the first round?The stakes are higher for ...

4.5 stars--ANNIE’S APPLE is the second instalment in John A Heldt’s adult SECOND CHANCE historical, time travel series focusing on the Carpenter siblings-Paul, Bill and Annie. NOTE: Due to the nature of the story line premise including attempted suicide, there may be triggers for more sensitive readers.SOME BACKGROUND :The Second Chance series focuses on the search for the Fountain of Youth. In May of 2022, 81 year old William Carpenter is a retired professor of folklore, learns the mythology ab...

Author John A. (the "A" is important) Heldt provided an ecopy of Annie's Apple for review.Annie's Apple is the second entry in the Second Chance series. I have read and reviewed all of Mr. Heldt's books to date. I am beginning to run out of descriptors for his writing without sounding redundant. Fortunately for his readers his work is not redundant, he has maintained the ability keep his work new and engaging. I have read other authors whose work is so predictable that the reader can think "I'm ...

John Heldt – Second Chance Bk 2 – Annie’s AppleTime marches on, and we begin our story in 1911!Bill and Annie have relocated to New York City. Bill, as we remember, is married to Cassie, and they have both decided to retire and pursue having a family, which they desperately want. They, of course, don’t have the benefits that 2022 would offer them, so it is natural birth or adoption. They take their time wandering down this road.Meanwhile, Paul is in the Army and stationed with Cassie’s brother A...