Time Pebbles

By: Jerry Merritt

Narrated by: Emily Sutton-Smith

Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins

Publisher's summary

Tekla, son of an ancient shaman, loses Ka Li when she is torn from his life by a brutal tribe of Denisovans in a Late Pleistocene kidnapping.

Ka Li escapes but is unarmed and forced to flee across the Bering land bridge where she becomes hopelessly lost in the endless tracts of North America. Only Tekla cares enough to search for her over the years. As Ka Li survives fierce predators and scarce resources, she leaves behind a series of signal cairns to help Tekla find her.

Skipping forward 60,000 years, Helen Ryland, a mid-20th century archaeologist, unearths one of Ka Li’s surviving signal cairns and realizes she has found trace of people who populated the Americas even before the Clovis culture. Helen’s detective work tracking Ka Li’s timeless signals across the Alaskan wilderness now intertwines with Ka Li’s story. As Helen solves the puzzle of the signal cairns she finds universal fame and suffers devastating misfortune. In the end, Helen discovers that science in isolation cannot answer all of her questions for Tekla’s devotion to Ka Li had not died even though 600 centuries had passed.

©2014 Jerry Merritt (P)2018 Podium Publishing

Gift of Time was just an amazing read and this book while completely different is superb too.

Gift of Time is science fiction but such a unique story and so well written that I was excited for his next novel. I was surprised when his new novel wasn't science fiction at all. I'm not normally a fan of the genre of Time Pebbles which is historical fiction. This was so compelling from the start and so well written with characters that you cared about that I loved it. I can wait to see his next book because I will read / listen to anything that he had written

Clan of the cave bear revisited

Both the story and the narrator where humdrum. This book was a less entertaining version of 'Clan of the cave bear'.

Love and Archeology

An enthralling story spanning millennia if you’re into prehistory fiction you’ll enjoy this read. The ending is quite surprise.

Great story

Only downside was when the book ended. Great story, almost a time travel story but not. Didn’t expect a lot from reading some other reviews but was pleasantly surprised when the book exceeded my expectations. This will be one of my favorite audible books.

Loved it!

I loved the dual storyline format and found the characters relatable and engaging. If you want to read something that takes you on a journey then you’ve found it.

Great potential!

I love the premise of this book! Anytime someone finds something and then it goes back and begins to tell the story from waaay back, I’m in! I’m a Christian though so I have to say that I don’t agree with time lines and any other theories outside of the biblical point of view of such things but I honestly just set those things aside that don’t fall inline biblically as inaccurate and otherwise enjoy a good story and adventure.
That said, this book came off more to me like a teen or YA read. It never really got into detailed descriptions and felt like it really rushed through the entire story and then ended. It was a short read by my standards so I guess that’s why it seemed to fall short in the whole “world building” and character developed aspects. And I’m not saying that what the book did have was not done well because it actually was, I just wanted more of it... More of an epic, longer lasting and more in depth read than what I got and I hope that im being clear that this is actually a pretty good book for what it was. As far as recommending it I don’t know... if it was a long series of several books taking the story deeper that you could string all together and binge read them all as if it were written as a grand epic adventure then I would say no doubt, spend the credits. But as a stand alone I don’t know if I would use the credit.
Hope that helps!

what a great story

it was. was great. the story was. really great. a really great story. really. great.

I really enjoyed this book!

Important and relevant story to a possibility of time passed. I love archeology so this really spoke to me - guessing at the story behind the artifacts and clues left behind. I only wish there was a sequel.

A very memorable story!

As I started my listen my mind wandered but shortly I could not stop listening! I sat the last 5 hrs. seeing it and being there.haven't been that taken away in many years! My family wonders what have been doing for so long. Their dinner is very late but part of me is still in that story! Thank you so very much!

Loved it

I wish the songs where in it, but otherwise it was amazing. Can't wait for your next book the first two are very well done.