Caroline's junior year at Diaz High School was hard enough. The spring semester had just started and she had already made new enemies. Her best friend Tony was behaving oddly, and she was suffering from a mystery illness that had claimed the life of her older sister, Elizabeth, years ago. If that weren't enough, Caroline gets kidnapped by a time-traveling would-be god who claims to have been Qetzelcoatl in another life. For N'Nae, daughter of the Adjunct King of Atuaxan, eking out a living in a small city-state at the tail-end of an Ice Age was challenging enough. But she was also expected to comport herself in a manner befitting her station, which entailed sacrificing her life for the good of the kingdom. And then the Shadows from another Universe appeared. Now Caroline, N'Nae, and Tony are drawn together into a conflict in which the combatants must warp reality itself to do battle, the stakes are no less than the survival of life on Earth itself, and the victor will not be known until many millennia in the future! The Mariner King is Book II of Temporal Affairs, a centuries-spanning young adult adventure by south Texas-born author, Robert Schell.