A modern day scientist invents a time machine. He plans to visit the recent past, but that's the trouble with time, you never know where you'll end up. He in his unwitting companion end up in colonial America with no way home. Ben Franklin to the rescue.

Robert Allen Lupton is a retired commercial hot air balloon pilot. Robert runs and writes every day, but not necessarily in that order. Over 200 of his short stories have been published in various anthologies. He's written over 2500 drabbles and articles based on the worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs. He has four novels, seven short story collections, one cookbook, and four edited anthologies available from purveyors of the finest books available.