In the opening pages of The Timekeeper, we meet three children; Dor, Alli, and Nim, who are childhood friends. As they grew up, Dor would always be counting, no matter what it was. Nim was always the strong one, and Alli, the sensible one. When they grew up, Dor and Alli got married and had three children; a son and two daughters, and Nim became a power-thirsty king who had millions of slaves. Time was always on Dor's side, because he is time's father.
Another person we meet is Sara Lemon, a young teenage girl who is getting dressed for the date of her dreams. When we met Sara, she was running around her room trying to figure out what to wear, and counting the minutes she had to put on her makeup and do her hair. She was frantically waiting for eight thirty to come because that is the time she would meet the guy she was going out with.
The last person we meet is eighty year-old Victor Delamonte. As the world's fourteenth-richest man, Victor knows that the only thing that can top his fortune is his health. So when he gets a tumor and his kidneys begin to fail, he researches every cure option known to man. It isn't until he is pronounced to only have a limited amount of time left to live that he researches immortality an tries to save himself from death.
Another person we meet is Sara Lemon, a young teenage girl who is getting dressed for the date of her dreams. When we met Sara, she was running around her room trying to figure out what to wear, and counting the minutes she had to put on her makeup and do her hair. She was frantically waiting for eight thirty to come because that is the time she would meet the guy she was going out with.
The last person we meet is eighty year-old Victor Delamonte. As the world's fourteenth-richest man, Victor knows that the only thing that can top his fortune is his health. So when he gets a tumor and his kidneys begin to fail, he researches every cure option known to man. It isn't until he is pronounced to only have a limited amount of time left to live that he researches immortality an tries to save himself from death.