A Quantum Leap Novella
By Helen Earl
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSMy grateful thanks to the following for inspiration and assistance:
Most importantly of course the brilliant Scott Bakula, Dean Stockwell, Don Bellisario and everyone connected with the programme "Quantum Leap", for creating the original series, and such powerful characters.
"Electric Dreams" – the movie with the brick!
Mariah Carey for "Hero" – a perfect description of Sam.
Cervantes, and Leigh and Darion, for "Don Quixote – Man of La Mancha".
My children, Robert and Rebecca, for coughing at night (with asthma and whooping cough), over a period of six months, thus keeping me awake and so giving me time to hatch my plot.
My mother, Connie, for proof-reading and encouragement.
My driving instructor, for suggesting that I should do something for myself.
My husband, David, for curbing his jealousy of the other man in my life – Dr Sam Beckett.
Sgt Tina Williams and Carlos Zelaya of RAF Alconbury, for their kind help and 'local' knowledge, especially of Mulholland Drive.
Disclaimer:
All rights to Quantum Leap, Sam, Al and original series characters remain of course with Bellisarius Productions and Universal.
Rights to characters specific to this story are mine.
I write under the name of Madeleine Duchesse.
Note:
The author wishes to make it clear that the shattering of the gear lever in the accident is merely for dramatic effect, and that no criticism is intended of the design or manufacture of Trans-Am cars.