12 Quotes from Cornell Dyer and the Never Robbers

When we were getting ready to release Bryony back in 2011, my daughter Sarah (who did a lot of the marketing for me) suggested I pull thirty teaser quotes from the book that she could post on Facebook, one each day.

We did the same for the second book, Visage, which is also part of the BryonySeries.

But for some reason, I never did the same for another book.

So now I am catching up.

Here is the synopsis and chapter headings for Cornell Dyer and the Never Robbers, followed by twelve quotes, one from each chapter.

Enjoy!

After a band of robbers steal the motor home of #supernatural super sleuth Cornell Dyer, time becomes strange and unpredictable. But will Cornell he solve the mystery before he fades from memory?

Prologue: 

The boy turned a page.

A boom sounded in the distance.       

The boy glanced up. An approaching storm? A cannon?

No wind.

No more bell.

No calling of his name or trickling of the stream.

His neck prickled.

The bulb shone with brilliant light.

Chapter 1: Dyer Straights

How dare anyone, much less a group of anyones, steal the motor home belonging to the great Professor Cornell Dyer, supernatural super sleuth of supernatural mysteries?

Just wait until he caught up with them. Just wait.

Chapter 2: The Bank That Wasn't

Cornell hurried to the police officer, who irritably blew on his whistle.

"Where is the bank?" Cornell demanded.

"What bank?" the officer snarled.

"THAT bank! And the four bank robbers!"

 "Bank robbers! We're too far north for bank robbers! We leave that for central Indiana!"

Chapter 3: The Never Robbers

"Eureka!" Cornell cried. "You're talking about time travel!"

Mike Olsen shook his head. "We're not talking about time travel. We're talking about something that isn't anymore, something different people remember differently. But we've hit a little snag."

"What snag?" Cornell asked, pen poised.

"We've all experienced something that is, but not anymore, with people remembering it in various ways. But we're stuck with the original memories, all of the original memories in all their different forms."

Chapter 4: A Curious  Case of Molly Burton

Cornell held his pen over the notebook. "When did the aging begin?"

Mike Olson scratched his gray head. "Around the time we met you. I think."

Cornell wrote that down. "And when did you meet Molly Burton?"

"Today," Mike Olson said.

Danny Tyler held up an arthritic hand. "But it's been a really long day."

Chapter 5: On The Other Side of Time

"I thought we were going to the cemetery, Professor," Bishop Cafferty sneered. "You've been digging through these boxes for hours."

"I didn't mean an actual cemetery," Cornell said.

Chapter 6: It's More Than a Tree

Cornell kicked the tire, and a blinding light shot out, and a great suction pulled him forward, an endless fall into a downward spiral.

Chapter 7: That Ole Dirt Road

"Your device won't work your way here," the man said. "We are nearing our destination, and the sun shall soon set. I have many rooms and you may stay in them."

            

Mike Olsen chuckled. "You own a motel?"

            

"It's something like a motel."

Chapter 8: A Trip to 1879

The man spread out his arms. "Welcome to 1879. Come walk with me."

Mike Olsen hesitated. "It's been a long time."

"Almost a hundred years," the man said. "Mike, in all your travels and in all your time, why did you not come back?"

Chapter 9: Before The Thunder

“We’re not interfering with time travel,” the man said. "We're repairing time. The version you saw has ceased to exist."

Chapter 10: She Was Always Like That

"What went wrong?" Cornell asked.

The man shrugged. "There are far less portals in the world today. And you don't always get to know the endings to other people's stories."

Epilogue

It was a busy morning, even for a Tuesday.