The Guide of Time — Cinzia De Santis

How do scientists make big breakthroughs? Are they geniuses, or lucky -or are they inspired? Often they are helped by Guides. They are the Guides of Time. Throughout the centuries, from Archimedes to Einstein, they have inspired breakthrough scientific discoveries. Alexander von Rossen is last of a lineage of Guides, and his goal is to take mankind to a higher state of knowledge through a scientific discovery that will transform dramatically the view of life and death. But his enemies will do whatever they can to stop him. They want to keep humans in the darkness to be able to manipulate them.Alexander faces an unexpected complication: Ariane Claret, a young woman with an extraordinary talent for music that bursts into his life at a crucial moment and who produces in him feelings that he never experienced before. Ariane holds the secret for the victory or destruction of Alexander, the Guides and, ultimately, mankind.

The trilogy of “The Guide of Time” is a fascinating journey through human history. This free novella is an introduction to the series. Facts mixed with fantasy -- or maybe not?