Time Pebbles

By: Jerry Merritt

Narrated by: Emily Sutton-Smith

Tekla, son of an ancient shaman, loses Ka Li when she is torn from his life by a brutal tribe of Denisovans in a Late Pleistocene kidnapping.

Ka Li escapes but is unarmed and forced to flee across the Bering land bridge where she becomes hopelessly lost in the endless tracts of North America. Only Tekla cares enough to search for her over the years. As Ka Li survives fierce predators and scarce resources, she leaves behind a series of signal cairns to help Tekla find her.

Skipping forward 60,000 years, Helen Ryland, a mid-20th century archaeologist, unearths one of Ka Li’s surviving signal cairns and realizes she has found trace of people who populated the Americas even before the Clovis culture. Helen’s detective work tracking Ka Li’s timeless signals across the Alaskan wilderness now intertwines with Ka Li’s story. As Helen solves the puzzle of the signal cairns she finds universal fame and suffers devastating misfortune. In the end, Helen discovers that science in isolation cannot answer all of her questions for Tekla’s devotion to Ka Li had not died even though 600 centuries had passed.

©2014 Jerry Merritt (P)2018 Podium Publishing

Great potential!

I love the premise of this book! Anytime someone finds something and then it goes back and begins to tell the story from waaay back, I’m in! I’m a Christian though so I have to say that I don’t agree with time lines and any other theories outside of the biblical point of view of such things but I honestly just set those things aside that don’t fall inline biblically as inaccurate and otherwise enjoy a good story and adventure.
That said, this book came off more to me like a teen or YA read. It never really got into detailed descriptions and felt like it really rushed through the entire story and then ended. It was a short read by my standards so I guess that’s why it seemed to fall short in the whole “world building” and character developed aspects. And I’m not saying that what the book did have was not done well because it actually was, I just wanted more of it... More of an epic, longer lasting and more in depth read than what I got and I hope that im being clear that this is actually a pretty good book for what it was. As far as recommending it I don’t know... if it was a long series of several books taking the story deeper that you could string all together and binge read them all as if it were written as a grand epic adventure then I would say no doubt, spend the credits. But as a stand alone I don’t know if I would use the credit.
Hope that helps!

I really enjoyed this book!

Important and relevant story to a possibility of time passed. I love archeology so this really spoke to me - guessing at the story behind the artifacts and clues left behind. I only wish there was a sequel.

Elegant parallels

Engaging from start to finish Jerry Merritt does it again. Like his last book there's a point where it seems that two sets of story points have wandered too far afield to ever meet up again and then he does his writerly magic and brings it on home to a satisfying and emotionally compelling conclusion.

Thoroughly enjoyed

A most unusual story involving time. No discussions of time- and yet there are two distinct time flows that eventually connect in unexpected ways. This is surrounded by a really creative and compassionate imagining of humans as we were a long long time ago - like the Pleistocene. Well done and well read.

It's so good! I look forward to more!

Great story, great storytelling and good narration. I listened to this book after enjoying his other book. I think he's a really good author and I hope he has more on the way!

Great book. Loved the story.

This was a wonderful book that took you on an adventure through time. I would recommend this book to anyone that loves archaeology and mystery. The ending was wonderful and I am looking for a sequel hopefully.

What a story !

I enjoy the way that they mixed the 1st nation events and modern examples but the ending was unreal

Wonderful story!

I loved everything about this book. Wonderful story and great characters. I will look for more from this author!

The best book I have ever read! 

I know that everyone has a particular taste in entertainment. But, at 69 years old, this is the first book that truly touched the deepest part of my heart. It had heartbreaking tragedies and the warmth of the human spirit. Since Life does not often give us wonderful endings, at least we can fill our heart’s with happiness of what can be. The ending is truly SHOCKING, completely unexpected. AND, IT HAPPENS ON THE VERY LAST PAGE. I hope this author continues to write stories with wonderful characters and the mysteries of life as he has done here. I will buy every single book he writes.

Finding your tribe

The ancient portions of this story seem to be genuinely researched and truly “could” depict what life was like for early man and woman. The modern portions also feel authentic but this isn’t just a story about geography and history- there’s a really appealing mystical element of connection between people in the same time and across time