Dead Time, book three in the series, just released on April 15th!
Don't miss the series ebook SALE and begin the series with book one...
Don't miss the series ebook SALE and begin the series with book one...
(Between Two Evils #1)
D.L. Orton
D.L. Orton
Adult Sci-Fi Romance, Dystopian
Hardcover, Paperback, Audiobook & ebook, 374 pagesA Publishers Weekly Starred Review
“Best Sci-Fi Love Story of the Year”
Remember How It Feels to Fall in Love?
Race against the clock through a dystopian nightmare. Climb naked into an untested time machine (carrying only a seashell and a promise). Wake up twenty years younger on a tropical beach, buck naked and mortally wounded, with your heart in your throat.
This is a journey of love, loss, and redemption that will make your pulse gallop and your palms sweat, have you laughing out loud through your tears, and leave you flush with the sublime pleasure of falling in love.
Remember How It Feels to Fall in Love?
Race against the clock through a dystopian nightmare. Climb naked into an untested time machine (carrying only a seashell and a promise). Wake up twenty years younger on a tropical beach, buck naked and mortally wounded, with your heart in your throat.
This is a journey of love, loss, and redemption that will make your pulse gallop and your palms sweat, have you laughing out loud through your tears, and leave you flush with the sublime pleasure of falling in love.
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Ask the Characters:
How Difficult Is It to Be a Character in D.L. Orton’s Book?
Isabel: There were times when I wasn't sure I wanted to trust a writer with my life. Still, Ms. Orton cares about the same things I do, and I’m dying to see how things turn out. In the end, I wasn't keen on some of the scarier scenes (and I'm still sad about all those animals), but the author assures me that everything will work out in the end. Right, Diego?
Diego: Mierda, it's always a challenge to figure out what a woman is thinking—let alone what they're going to do next—but I gave it my best shot. When you love someone the way I love Iz, you find a way to make it work—or die trying. (And I'm not big on dying.) I believe that beneath our differences—our languages, religions, and politics—people are basically good. They’re all looking for that one person who gives their life meaning, that one heart that beats in time with their own. I'm no exception. I may not always agree with the author on the best way to handle the situation, but I try to play the cards I'm dealt to the best of my ability. And BTW, I'm still waiting for my royal flush.
Matt: Bloody hell. I'd love to say that being in a book was a doddle, but those damn Americans can't even make a decent cuppa tea. Imagine being asked to trust one with your gay, black British nature? I expected things to go pear-shaped straight away, but so far, Bob's your uncle—and the author does let me fly a plane occasionally. Besides, math and science are the universal language, and once I get that sodding time machine working, things will be tickety-boo. In the mean time, could someone from the future send back some decent tea and biscuits?
D. L. Orton’s Response: The characters go off on their own tangents and refuse to do what I had planned all the effing time. It's like herding cats…
Other Books in the Series
Lost Time
July 1st 2016 by Rocky Mountain Press
If someone took everything you live for, how far would you go to get it back?
When a faulty time machine deposits Diego at the top of a pine tree, he knows he's in the wrong place--but has no idea he's in the wrong time. Naked and shivering in the chilly mountain air, he attempts to climb down, but slips, whacks his head, and falls into oblivion.
He wakes up inside a darkened room, crippled and disheartened, and must come to grips with the realization that he is marooned in a bleak alternate future. In this universe, what remains of the human race is trapped inside a handful of aging biodomes. With his mission failed, his world destroyed, and the one woman he loves, dead, he can find no reason to go on living.
But Lani, the emotionally scarred doctor who finds him, refuses to let him die, and as Diego heals, their relationship becomes... complicated. He struggles to let go of the past but is unable to get Isabel out of his head--or his heart. Just when it seems he may be able to find some measure of happiness in a world teetering on the edge of extinction...
Another note arrives from the future: Isabel is alive--but not for long...
Dead Time
April 15th 2017 by Rocky Mountain Press
If someone took everything you live for, how far would you go to get it back?
From award-winning author D. L. ORTON comes book three in the Between Two Evils series...
Shannon fights to stay alive inside a rogue biodome and discovers something totally unexpected... Peter. Lani is forced into the role of the reluctant heroine but rediscovers her street-kid mojo and sets out to find everything she's lost. Diego receives another dirty sock (and a note) from the poorly aimed fireball express: "The window between universes is closing." If Diego has any hope of getting back to Iz, he must get to the Magic Kingdom and power up the time machine before it's too late.
What could possibly go wrong?
About the Author
Ask the Characters:
How Difficult Is It to Be a Character in D.L. Orton’s Book?
Isabel: There were times when I wasn't sure I wanted to trust a writer with my life. Still, Ms. Orton cares about the same things I do, and I’m dying to see how things turn out. In the end, I wasn't keen on some of the scarier scenes (and I'm still sad about all those animals), but the author assures me that everything will work out in the end. Right, Diego?
Diego: Mierda, it's always a challenge to figure out what a woman is thinking—let alone what they're going to do next—but I gave it my best shot. When you love someone the way I love Iz, you find a way to make it work—or die trying. (And I'm not big on dying.) I believe that beneath our differences—our languages, religions, and politics—people are basically good. They’re all looking for that one person who gives their life meaning, that one heart that beats in time with their own. I'm no exception. I may not always agree with the author on the best way to handle the situation, but I try to play the cards I'm dealt to the best of my ability. And BTW, I'm still waiting for my royal flush.
Matt: Bloody hell. I'd love to say that being in a book was a doddle, but those damn Americans can't even make a decent cuppa tea. Imagine being asked to trust one with your gay, black British nature? I expected things to go pear-shaped straight away, but so far, Bob's your uncle—and the author does let me fly a plane occasionally. Besides, math and science are the universal language, and once I get that sodding time machine working, things will be tickety-boo. In the mean time, could someone from the future send back some decent tea and biscuits?
D. L. Orton’s Response: The characters go off on their own tangents and refuse to do what I had planned all the effing time. It's like herding cats…
Other Books in the Series
Lost Time
(Between Two Evils #2)
D.L. Orton
D.L. Orton
Adult Sci-Fi Romance, Dystopian
Hardcover, Paperback & ebook, 222 pagesIf someone took everything you live for, how far would you go to get it back?
When a faulty time machine deposits Diego at the top of a pine tree, he knows he's in the wrong place--but has no idea he's in the wrong time. Naked and shivering in the chilly mountain air, he attempts to climb down, but slips, whacks his head, and falls into oblivion.
He wakes up inside a darkened room, crippled and disheartened, and must come to grips with the realization that he is marooned in a bleak alternate future. In this universe, what remains of the human race is trapped inside a handful of aging biodomes. With his mission failed, his world destroyed, and the one woman he loves, dead, he can find no reason to go on living.
But Lani, the emotionally scarred doctor who finds him, refuses to let him die, and as Diego heals, their relationship becomes... complicated. He struggles to let go of the past but is unable to get Isabel out of his head--or his heart. Just when it seems he may be able to find some measure of happiness in a world teetering on the edge of extinction...
Another note arrives from the future: Isabel is alive--but not for long...
Dead Time
(Between Two Evils #3)
D.L. Orton
D.L. Orton
Adult Sci-Fi Romance, Dystopian
Paperback & ebook, 414 pagesIf someone took everything you live for, how far would you go to get it back?
From award-winning author D. L. ORTON comes book three in the Between Two Evils series...
Shannon fights to stay alive inside a rogue biodome and discovers something totally unexpected... Peter. Lani is forced into the role of the reluctant heroine but rediscovers her street-kid mojo and sets out to find everything she's lost. Diego receives another dirty sock (and a note) from the poorly aimed fireball express: "The window between universes is closing." If Diego has any hope of getting back to Iz, he must get to the Magic Kingdom and power up the time machine before it's too late.
What could possibly go wrong?
About the Author
D.L. ORTON is the BEST-SELLING author of the BETWEEN TWO EVILS book series. She lives in the Rocky Mountains where she and her husband are raising three boys, a golden retriever, two Siberian cats, and an extremely long-lived Triops. In her spare time, she's building a time machine so that someone can go back and do the laundry.
Ms. Orton is a graduate of Stanford University's Writers Workshop and a past editor of "Top of the Western Staircase," a literary publication of the University of Colorado at Boulder. The author has a number of short stories published in traditional and online literary magazines, including Literotica, Melusine, Cosmoetica, The Ranfurly Review, and Catalyst Press.
Tour Schedule
April 16th: Launch
April 17th: Reading for the Stars and Moon, Stormy Nights Reviewing & Bloggin' & Hearts & Scribbles
April 18th: I Love Books
April 19th: Rockin' Book Reviews
April 20th: Kindle and Me & Wishful Endings
April 21st: Zerina Blossom's Books
April 23rd: Celticlady's Reviews
April 24th: deal sharing aunt & Colorimetry
April 25th: fuonlyknew & Angels With Attitude Book Reviews
April 26th: Bookworm Lisa
April 27th: Booklove
April 28th: Grand Finale
April 17th: Reading for the Stars and Moon, Stormy Nights Reviewing & Bloggin' & Hearts & Scribbles
April 18th: I Love Books
April 19th: Rockin' Book Reviews
April 20th: Kindle and Me & Wishful Endings
April 21st: Zerina Blossom's Books
April 23rd: Celticlady's Reviews
April 24th: deal sharing aunt & Colorimetry
April 25th: fuonlyknew & Angels With Attitude Book Reviews
April 26th: Bookworm Lisa
April 27th: Booklove
April 28th: Grand Finale
Tour Giveaway
- 1 winner will receive a $25 Amazon eGift Card (open internationally)
- 1 winner will receive the Between Two Evils series, which includes Crossing in Time, Lost Time, and Dead Time (print if US, Kindle copies if international)
- Ends March 28th
