While re-creating her mother’s last experiment in her basement, Bria, her autistic brother Dylan, and four friends cause a rip in time and space—and out of the resultanting black hole tumbles K-Six, a time sniffer who has come to get them.

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  An explosion at a secret laboratory. A rift in space-time. Alien dogs that can camouflage and sniff rips in time with their supervac noses. Be prepared to traverse shifting time streams and deeply entrenched shadow worlds in a wild and crazy fantasy/sci-fi near-future that will make your head spin and your heart pound.

Time Sniffer-Volume 1-Shadow World is chockful of science and romance (yes, the two are compatible!): follow Bria Harrison, brilliant teenage daughter of two prominent scientists, as she searches for her mother, whom she insists is alive, despite the devastating explosion at the National Laboratory.

K-6, the doglike alien time-sniffer, takes them back through the rip to his training world, where the teens must be altered to adapt to dangerous time confluences and worlds they must traverse to save the scientists trapped in a time eddy. If the scientists cannot be rescued soon, dark energy, now streaming into the galaxy at an alarming rate, will cause horrific destruction—including the end of all life on earth.

C. S. Lakin writes novels in numerous genres, focusing mostly on contemporary psychological mysteries and allegorical fantasy. Her novel, Someone to Blame (contemporary fiction), won the 2009 Zondervan First Novel competition 2009 (published October 2010). Lakin has seven fantasy novels in the Gates of Heaven series contracted with AMG-Living Ink Publishers. The first books in the series, The Wolf of Tebron (July 2010), The Map across Time (March 2010), and the Land of Darkness (October 2011) have been released with the subsequent books in the series to be released in six-month intervals. The Wolf of Tebron was a 2011 Carol Award finalist.

Her contemporary mystery, Innocent Little Crimes, made the top one hundred finalists in the 2009 Amazon Breakout Novel Award contest, earning her a Publisher’s Weekly review that noted her book was “a page-turning thrill-ride that will have readers holding their breaths the whole way through.”

She currently works as a freelance copy editor and writing mentor, specializing in helping authors prepare their books for publication. She is a member of The Christian PEN (Proofreaders and Editors Network), CEN (Christian Editor Network), San Francisco Editors Guild, CAN (Christian Authors Network—regular blogger), ACFW (American Christian Fiction Writers), AWSA (Advanced Writers and Speakers Association), and regional writers’ groups. She edits for individuals, small companies, and literary agents and teaches workshops on the writing craft at conferences and guest blogs on writing.

She recently completed Conundrum (her fourth psychological mystery) and the fourth book in her fantasy series: The Unraveling of Wentwater.  She has also written the first book in a Young Adult sci-fi adventure series called Time Sniffers. She lives in Northern California with her husband of twenty-eight years and wants more than anything to glorify God through her writing.