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The Road to Alexander: The cult classic timeslip novel from the acclaimed author (The Time for Alexander Series Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Jennifer Macaire (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 161 ratings
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'Fascinating . . . Jam-packed with adventure and colour' JODI TAYLOR


READERS LOVE JENNIFER MACAIRE'S TIME FOR ALEXANDER SERIES!

'I honestly couldn't put it down' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'Loved this book! Can't wait to read the next one!' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'A captivating read' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'You will not put it down till it is finished. Superb!' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'This series gets better with each new book' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

What do you do when the past becomes your future?


The year is 2089, and time-travelling journalist Ashley Riveraine gets a once in a lifetime opportunity to interview her childhood hero, Alexander the Great. She expects to come out with an award-winning article, but doesn't count on Fate intervening.

Alexander mistakes Ashley for Persephone, goddess of the dead, and kidnaps her, stranding her in his own time. Being stuck 3000 years in the past with the man of her dreams wouldn't be so bad if the scientists of the Time Institute hadn't threatened to erase Ashley from existence if she changes history.

Ashley must now walk a tightrope, caught up in the cataclysmic events of the time, knowing what the future holds for the people she comes to love but powerless to do anything to influence it.

Join Ashley on her hilarious, bumpy journey into the past as she discovers where her place in history truly is . . .

PRAISE FOR JENNIFER MACAIRE'S TIME FOR ALEXANDER SERIES:


'A fascinating glimpse into the Ancient World jam-packed with adventure and colour' JODI TAYLOR

'A vividly written, characterful, informed and unusual take on Alexander and Ancient Times. I loved it.' CAROL McGRATH

'Fun, sexy and at times incredibly sad, the story held me to the end and the research was incredible' KAREN KING

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    March 9, 2017
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What everyone's saying about The Road to Alexander:

"If you are a fan of Diana Gabaldon and her Outlander Series then you will love this story. The same heart wrenching trials and tribulations that she puts her characters through happen within this gripping tale." Lynda Warnock

"Fun, sexy and at times incredibly sad, the story held me to the end and the research was incredible." Karen King, author.

"If you love Time travel books then this one is not to be missed. Totally engrossing!!!!" Amazon reviewer.

"A Time for Alexander is a wonderful moving saga. Really more of a historical piece than a romance, there is more than enough heat between Alexander and Ashley to keep the pages smoldering." Goodreads.

"...A delightful read, I'm looking forward to the next book in the series." Amazon Reviewer.

" I found an engaging and light read, fun at times with some beautiful descriptive scenes of the cities, the landscape and life in the vast and growing empire of Alexander the Great in 333 - 330 BC." Amazon Reviewer.

"From the first page, I was intrigued by this story." Conan Tigard

"There wasn't a piece of this book that didn't fit, it kept a quick pace, the dialogue was witty and entertaining and the beautiful descriptions of ancient lands entice you into accompanying them on Alexander's quest to conquer the world." Goodreads

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07ZR9K488
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Headline Accent; Time for Alexander ed. edition (March 9, 2017)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 9, 2017
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 711 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 370 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1786154676
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 161 ratings

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Jennifer Macaire lives with her husband, three children, & various dogs & horses. She loves cooking, eating chocolate, growing herbs and flowering plants on her balcony, and playing golf. She grew up in upstate New York, Samoa, and the Virgin Islands. She graduated from St. Peter and Paul high school in St. Thomas and moved to NYC where she modeled for five years for Elite. She met her husband at the polo club. All that is true. But she mostly likes to make up stories.

Author Jennifer Macaire short stories have been published by Three Rivers Press, Nothing But Red, The Bear Deluxe, and The Vestal Review, among others. One of her short stories was nominated for the Push Cart Prize (Honey on Your Skin) and is now being made into a film. Her short story 'There be Gheckos' won the Harper Collins /3 AM flash fiction prize.

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Customers enjoy the book. They find it an engaging read and look forward to the next in the series.

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Customers enjoy the historical accuracy of the book, which blends romance with historical facts and figures. They find it a treat to have history mixed with sci-fi with a little romance thrown in. Readers describe the story as interesting and enthralling.

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  • Sophiedbz
    5.0 out of 5 stars Read it !
    Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2017
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    Loved this book! Huge research must have gone into it. What a treat to have history mixed with sci-fi with a little romance thrown in ! Can't wait to read the next one!
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    4.0 out of 5 stars The Road to Alexander
    Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2017
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    This was funny, sexy, and well researched . It has Alexander the Great, all his generals,his army, his wives, and his lovers. There are his enemies, his crazy mother, and his battles. And.....one observant journalist from the future, who can never return to her own time. She falls in love with Alexander and travels with him and the army. It's isn't easy staying alive in 300 or so BC, but being married to Alexander helps, and so does the fact that everyone thinks she is a goddess. A delightful read, I'm looking forward to the next book in the series. (there will be 7)
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  • Jan Thomas
    3.0 out of 5 stars Not for me
    Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2023
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    I made my way through it, happy for it to end. I won’t be continuing with the series. Writing was well done but id call it an historical romance, not much about time travel. The main female character wasn’t very interesting & I got tired of reading of her constant nose bleeds. Disappointing 2-D characters
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  • Aussie
    5.0 out of 5 stars I Stepped into an Ancient Greek World
    Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2018
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    This isn't something I'd normally read, but it proved to be very interesting and very different. A time-travelling journalist who has been intrigued with Alexander the Great and works towards being chosen to be the one to travel back through time to 'interview' him, without upsetting history or letting on who she is.
    I feel as though I stepped into the ancient Greek world and could see everything that was happening to the characters. It is certainly different in that the heroine isn't the only wife to Alexander, and indeed becomes friends with one of the other wives. The relationship between Alexander and Ashley spreads across the ancient world of Greece and battles as well as political power. It brings to light many historical people mentioned in different texts (okay, so I went to Wikipedia, all right? I had to check out Alexander the Great myself!) There is also mention of his affairs with other men and women. An excellent job of twining a romance with many historical facts and figures, and also showing the difference between two different cultures and times. If you're looking for something different, factual in many areas, historical and an enthralling story, this might be right up your alley! This author definitely knows her history.
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  • Tarot Reader
    4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2018
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    Fun read.
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent read
    Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2021
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    I would suggest everyone should read this. I couldn't put it down.....gives you a great idea of how the people lived at that time.....according to Jennifer Macaire.
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  • KindleReader
    2.0 out of 5 stars Not a fan.
    Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2018
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    If I could go back in time (!) I would reread Jodi Taylor and save some money: for me, this book was less about history and more about a romance that just didn't make sense.
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  • Cathie
    3.0 out of 5 stars Okay, but could be better
    Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2018
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    It's a fun, quick read, but the characters and places are cardboard cutouts. No depth at all. I do applaud the author for giving it a try and hope she has learned from this experience. If it was fleshed-out, this series would be terrific!
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  • curator99
    5.0 out of 5 stars Thoroughly recommend this book
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 4, 2017
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    Thoroughly recommend this book, and the other in the series. A very good read, and extremely well researched. I knew nothing about this period of history and feel that I have learnt a lot, as well it being a great story.
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  • Melissa Phillis
    5.0 out of 5 stars An intriguing tale of time travel
    Reviewed in Australia on March 16, 2018
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    How would it be, trapped in time....unable to change it one bit? Well read this marvellous book by Jennifer Macaire and learn about it! Great book, off to read the next!
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  • Uspidoll
    4.0 out of 5 stars Gay, gruesome with a giggle or two
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 6, 2018
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    I enjoyed the Iskander tale. Ashley was a bit hard to get fond of but a lot of the characters were more likeable. Shame about the donkey. I probably won't read any more of this series for a while. If people enjoy this book, they'll probably want to read Jodi Taylor's time travel books.
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  • jdf
    4.0 out of 5 stars An engaging read
    Reviewed in France on April 28, 2017
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    Historical fiction and an interest in discovering more about Alexander the Great brought me to read Ms. Macaire's first book in the Time For Alexander series. I found an engaging and light read, fun at times with some beautiful descriptive scenes of the cities, the landscape and life in the vast and growing empire of Alexander the Great in 333 - 330 BC.

    While I am less a fan of time-travel and fantasy, the placement of a thoroughly modern woman from our future, as much as she could come from our present, allows an interesting aspect in the growing relationship between Alexander and the heroine, Ashley, that might not be achievable with a contemporary of Alexander's. Her choices, his intervention, her sole knowledge of her reality, and their deepening connection requires Ashley first to accept Alexander and his life exactly as they are, the ultimate requisite for all great love, and then requires truth from her and the seal of his own acceptance. How much this tells us about the historical Alexander is perhaps besides the point. What it can tell us about Eros and love between men and women approaching the Socratic ideal of love between men, lifting it from the realm of the reproductive toward the sublime love of equality is perhaps the central message of this book.

    Ashley and Alexander touch in one another what each needs to move from Plato's notion of the object of love, her coldness and lack of honesty causing her to be taken for a goddess, unable to love and to desire because all of a god's desires are met, to a human woman, the subject of Alexander's love, able to risk trust. She becomes greater herself, and Alexander, in turn, can find a healing love for the injuries his mother inflicted on him as a child. The book suggests not only that Alexander is responsible for bringing the greatness of Hellenistic culture and democracy to modern times, but that his life is a step from Socratic notions of ideal love to the place of women in modern society.

    A caution for anyone considering offering the books to get young adults interested in antiquity and the spread of Hellenism, definitely an adult treatment of Eros, which might not be at all displeasing for the grown-ups out there.
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  • elsie13
    5.0 out of 5 stars I'm buying the next one so it must have been good.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 22, 2018
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    I enjoyed this book a lot. Having read Jodi Taylor on Persepolis it was good to see from another angle. I engaged with the characters straight away and was soon journeying with them. I'm buying the next one so it must have been good.
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