Duties and Dreams, the last installment in Heldt’s Second Chance series finds the extended family of the Carpenters and Lees with new additions, aspirations, and ambitions. Life is good for the blended Carpenter-Lee clan, living together in Hermosa Beach, Southern California, 1918. But the three time-traveling siblings, Bill, Annie, and Paul, know the storm clouds of World War I are far from lifting and there is also the small matter of a Spanish Flu epidemic heading their way…Duties and Dreams ...

I think I would have enjoyed this a lot more if I had read the 1st 2 books in the series. There were lots of references to things that had happened previously that would have fleshed out this story and made it more interesting. This is a time travel book which is always a bit mind boggling to consider. Bill, Annie and Paul are siblings that left 2022 and ended up in the early 1900's. This book picks up with WW1 and Paul and Annie's husband, Andy, being drafted for service. I felt like the writin...

What if you had a second chance at living your life? John Heldt’s DUTIES AND DREAMS rounds out the Second Chance series as three siblings find their best selves and their best lives in the past.Once again, John Heldt makes time travel sound simply amazing without getting caught up in the science, but rather in the romance and magic of taking a leap of faith. With perfect amounts of fact and fiction, our imaginations can run free and actually feel as if we are there with all of the good, the bad ...

In BriefDuties and Dreams closes out the Second Chance trilogy, offering a heartwarming and very fitting ending to the second lives of three siblings whose bond has been both strong and beautiful across time and space. It’s 1918 and, while Bill and Annie are settled with spouses and kids, Paul is a bachelor who loves to dote on his nieces and nephews. But WWI is knocking, and roughly tugs Paul and his brother-in-law Andy into its bloodshed. In 1944, Emilie is a French resistance fighter who befr...

4.5stars-DUTIES AND DREAMS is the third and final instalment in John A Heldt’s adult SECOND CHANCE time-travel trilogy focusing on the Carpenter siblings-Paul, Bill and Annie.NOTE: Due to the nature of the story line premise, 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, who learns the mythology about the Fountain of Yout...

In the concluding book of the Second Chance series, the Carpenter siblings, Bill, Paul, and Annie are now living in Hermosa Beach in Southern California in 1918. It's been thirteen years since they literally took a leap of faith into a fountain in remote Mexico that both restored their youth and health and transported them back in time. Ever since starting over, they've survived the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, the loss of a loved one in the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, wars, and much mo...

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 Southern California at the tail end of World War I, 1918 to be exact. With two young men in the famil...

I received an ecopy of Duties and Dreams from author John A. Heldt for review.If you are the reader who want short down and dirty reviews, I offer this: WOW! Read this book! There you don't need to read any further.For those of you who want a bit more, please continue.As the final installment of the Second Chance series Duties and Dreams concludes the story of the Carpenter clan. Once again we see the growth of an author who is developing into a story teller with few peers. I say in many of my r...

Hello Book Lovers, Here I am again with another thrilling book! I'm delighted to introduce you to the newest book by John Heldt, one of the best authors in this genre! It's called 'Duties and Dreams,' a captivating time travel novel that follows a family of adventurers as they witness the outbreak of World War I. As we know, WWI was a perilous period in European history, and when the United States joined the war, many brave men volunteered, and others were called to serve. The war claimed over 2...

"Duties and Dreams," was a great conclusion for a great series! I think this is my favorite book in the "Second Chance" series (though the first two books are still fantastic). This book has fun new characters, a suspenseful story line, and sweet moments throughout. I would follow the Carpenter's and the Lee's anywhere at this point, I wish there were more of their story to read!