Book excerpt: Timeless Embrace is the gut-wrenching sequel to Timeless Soldier, and part five of the Sparrow’s Tears saga. Lin Sparrow is a witch. That's what people say. In her dreams, Lin has a seer's ability to foretell the future from the ashes of the past. Lin does it with her mind - the Nazis did it with a machine. Lin's marriage plans to Special Forces Captain James Ross are put on hold when they find themselves on a global hunt for the Nazi time machine known as Die Glocke. Communist Red China has established a secret submarine base on North Abaco in the Bahamas. Its commander is a sadistic Admiral who is known as the Water Ghost. Ross and Lin once again form an alliance with Emanuel the enigmatic taxicab driver. Together, they follow a trail of lies, deceit, and murder that rises from the ruins of the Third Reich and reaches to the deepest darkest waters of the Caribbean. But is time travel really possible? Can Ross and Lin stop the Water Ghost from altering the past? Time will tell.