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Perpetual Motion

Name: Perpetual Motion
Rating: 3.67 (39 reviews)
Author: Bruce Hesselbach

Bruce Hesselbach

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With the Great War hanging in the balance, the love of a doomed inventor tempts a time traveler’s daughter to forsake everything she believes in.

After Sybil Hardenbergh’s time-traveling parents save Fritz von Lassberg from drowning, Sybil fears that Fritz may be helping Germany prepare to defeat England in the Great War, and, what is worse, that she is falling in love with him.

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