“Do I know you?” I called in an unsteady
voice. It seemed, though, as if my words
were taken by the wind. Who was this
man? And how did he know my name?
The
Book
While
on a genealogical research journey through the Midwest, Molly Hamilton
impulsively buys a 100-year-old Victorian house in the middle of a cornfield,
and falls in love with the house’s owner...the original owner, that is. Can he
be a ghost? The handsome, intriguing attorney certainly feels solid—and somehow
her soul knows she has always loved him.
Darius
Ferguson has no idea how he has come to present-day Iowa. The last thing he
knew, the year was 1880, and he had just buried his fiancée, who happens to
look exactly like Molly. He cannot separate the two women in his heart—to him,
they are one.
In
spite of being drawn to him, Molly thinks Darius is unhinged. Darius wonders if
he has joined his fiancée in purgatory. If time travel is possible, will love
be enough to build a future together?
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Excerpt
I
froze in place for a moment. It was definitely
a man under the tree though I couldn’t see his face...and he knew my name.
“Do I know you?” I called in an unsteady
voice. It seemed, though, as if my words
were taken by the wind. Who was this
man? And how did he know my name?
He
moved away from the tree with a tentative step.
His clothing was formal—a dark suit and white shirt—as if he had just
been to a funeral. I hadn’t remembered
seeing a canopy for a funeral on the grounds, but I wasn’t about to take my
eyes off the stranger for one instant to confirm that suspicion.
I
thought I saw a flash of white teeth from under his dark mustache, but he was
still some distance away. Golden
highlights in his chestnut hair caught the sunlight, and my mouth dropped open. He was undoubtedly one of the most handsome
men I had ever seen in my life. My
stomach rolled over at the sight of him, though not with admiration of his good
looks. Cold sweat broke out on my forehead,
and I put my hand to my mouth as if to hold back the morning’s breakfast...if
I’d had any.
For
here—in the flesh—was the man of my dreams.
Not just any dreams. More
specifically, my dreams of the previous evening. Yet I couldn’t for the life of me remember
ever seeing him before until this moment.
“Be
careful what you wish for,” I muttered behind the hand that covered my
face.
“Molly, don’t be afraid. I can see that you are. I don’t want to frighten you.” He took another step forward and held his
hands up palms out...as if to show me he wasn’t armed, I thought hysterically,
or to calm me down. Either way, it
wasn’t working.
Meet The Author
Bess
McBride made her first serious writing attempt when she was 14. She shut
herself up in her bedroom one summer while obsessively working on a time
travel/pirate novel set in the beloved Caribbean of her youth, but she wasn't
able to hammer it out on a manual typewriter (oh yeah, she's that old) before
it was time to go back to school. The draft of that novel has long since
disappeared, but the story is still simmering within, and she will finish the
adventure one day soon.
Bess
was born in Aruba to American parents and lived in Venezuela until her family
returned to the United States when she was 12. She couldn't fight the global
travel bug within and joined the U.S. Air Force at 18 to "see the
world." After 21 wonderful and fulfilling years traveling the world and
gaining one beautiful daughter, she pursued her dream of finally getting a
college education. With a license in mental health therapy, she worked with
veterans and continues to work on behalf of veterans. She writes romantic suspense,
contemporary, light paranormal/fantasy and time travel romances and currently
has eight novels published. She can be contacted through her web site at
http://www.bessmcbride.com.
