An enchanting time-travel romance for fans of Jude Deveraux and Diana
Gabaldon.
Hadley Easton has a family legacy to uphold as a Time-Keeper. He
guides people forward -or back- who feel they were born into the wrong time.
Samantha turns his world upside down when she arrives through the
front door of the London bookstore. No one arrives through the front doo: it’s
the time portal. On top of that, she
informs him she’s from the year 2012, over a hundred years in the future.
When Hadley learns the truth, he realizes his time is running out...
Hadley Easton
took the watch from his pocket and flipped it open to check the time. He wasn’t
sure why— the hands never moved. Time seemed to flow everywhere except inside
the portal where the bookstore stood. Here, time felt suspended.
He gathered his strength and made his way down the
stairs to the front of the bookstore. She was gone.
*****
Hadley stood with his back against the wall and stared at
the floor. His boots felt nailed down. He wanted to run after the woman. Stop
her. Ask her those million questions starting with, how could it be 2012? He
couldn’t force his legs to move.
He slid his fingers along the chain and tugged the watch
from his pocket again. He popped open the silver case. Once more the hands of
the watch were frozen, as they were since he arrived at the bookstore. But now,
it was a quarter to one. Time moved ahead ten minutes. The ten minutes he
assumed he’d spoken with Samantha. How did that happen? How could it happen?
Had he imagined the hands moved? Hadley tapped the glass face with the tip of
his fingers.
The Giveaway
Jennifer
will be awarding a pocket watch (US/Canada only) to a randomly drawn commenter
during the tour.
The Author
Jennifer
Conner is a best-selling Northwest author who has twenty short stories and one
full length book on ebook and in print. She writes in Contemporary Romance,
Paranormal Romance, Historical Romance, and Erotica.
Christmas
Chaos was in the Kindle sales top 50 ebooks and #2 in the Romance category.
Her novel
Shot in the Dark was a finalist in the Emerald City Opener, Cleveland, and
Toronto RWA contests.
Jennifer is
an Associate Publisher for the indie e-book publisher, Books to Go Now who
resides in the Seattle area. They pride themselves in helping new authors get
their foot in the door with well-edited manuscripts, professional covers, and
platforms uploads.
She live in a
hundred year old house that she grew up in. Her semi-small town holds an
interesting mix of resident hillbillies, yuppies and Navy Seals. And of course
Seattle, only a few miles away, is the birthplace of Starbucks so coffee is
always on the check list. She blows glass beads with a blow torch, (which
relieves a lot of stress and people don't bother you) and is a huge fan of my local soccer teams, the
Seattle Sounders, and Kitsap Pumas. Boys in shorts!
Connect with Jennifer!
Thank you for hosting today!
ReplyDeleteI have never read any of Jennifer's work, but I love discovering new-to-me authors. And I dearly love time-travel books, especially romance. Thank you for a delightful introduction.
ReplyDeleteI love Time-Travel books so I know I will enjoy this.
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Thank you for joining us today Jennifer and congratulations on your book!
ReplyDeleteThanks for hosting me today. I am so happy to be here and that everyone loves time travel stories as much as I do! It's fun to write because you can never get pigeon holed into a time and place. You have all eternity if you could time travel :)
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like another great story by Jennifer Conner. I can't wait to read it.
ReplyDeleteJennifer - You had me hooked with the comparison to Jude Deveraux and Diana Gabaldon - two of my favorite authors. Your excerpt intrigued me and I look forward to reading this book. Is it the first in a series?
ReplyDeleteGreat excerpt, Jennifer! It's a fun time-travel read :-)
ReplyDeleteThis is the first in the dimension keepers short story series. Thanks for asking and I hope you enjoy!
ReplyDeleteOhh I am intrigued! Thank you for sharing an excerpt!
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Very nice excerpt.
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