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    A New Beginning
    A New Beginning
    A New Beginning
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    A New Beginning

    By Peter Nichols

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    Kal Hudson, a Wall-street economist, finds himself in Massalia Gaul.The year is 108 AD and he has no memory of how he got there. He begins to build a business empire and learns along the way the meaning of friendship. Finally, stalked by an assassin, and with Aliens intervening in his life, Kal must choose between friendship and his own desires.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateSep 15, 2014
    ISBN9781483540467
    A New Beginning
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    Peter Nichols

    Peter Nichols is the author of the national bestseller A Voyage for Madmen and two other books, Sea Change: Alone Across the Atlantic in a Wooden Boat, a memoir, and the novel Voyage to the North Star. He has taught creative writing at NYU in Paris and Georgetown University, and presently teaches at Bowdoin College. He is lives in Maine with his wife and son.

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      A New Beginning - Peter Nichols

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

      ©2014 Peter Nichols

      All rights reserved

      ISBN: 9781483540467

      A wind rose from across the sea. It was a subtle wind, a wind that had made a long journey to reach these distant shores. A wind that told all that the warm days of summer had finally arrived. From the southeast it blew and billowed, making its way across the sea. From lands far away it came, always moving onward. From North Africa, Egypt, and beyond it had come, to carry its warmth to those who lived upon these north-western shores.

      Kal stood looking out at the endlessly rolling sea. He was a tall man. Broad in the shoulders and strong of build. His hair was blond and short, his face was clean shaven, and his eyes were a penetrating blue. He wore a short, tan colored tunic that hung down to just above his knees, and was belted at the waist with a red sash. He also wore tan breeches, a long hooded cloak, and good leather boots. Kal had designed his gear himself, and the clothes had been fashioned for him by tailors and leather workers. He preferred not to wear the long tunic or toga that were the more commonly worn apparel in the city. With back straight and chin high he stood immobile before the wind.

      Absently, he pulled the hood of his cloak up to shield his eyes from the glare of the sun. Kal had been in this city, that the locals called Massalia, for nearly three months. He had visited this city before he remembered, although before may be only a relative term. The city had been called Marseille at that time, and had been the second largest city in France.

      That had been another age, another time, and another life. Three months ago, everything had changed.

      Was it three months ago? Kal thought to himself. Or is it nineteen hundred and six years from now?

      Kal had been not too long ago, or sometime far off in the future, Kal Hudson; a respected Wall Street economist. Kal had graduated with honors from Harvard and worked hard to build his reputation as the best in his field.

      Then one night, while visiting Marseille, he had gone to bed and had woken up here in this time.

      The year was 108 AD, on what he considered his calendar. Marseille was Massalia, a busy commercial trading port of the Roman Empire.

      Kal turned from his observation of the sea and looked at the city. It was a

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