About the book: year / My second attempt at writing." Like the first one, “Time X” is about “misfits” and has some similarities with it. I am posting “The Silver Cross” as a separate story, although it was conceived at one time as the first part of a duology with the working title “Lost in the Ages.” I haven't gotten around to writing a sequel yet. A police captain in good company found himself in the era of Peter the Great.