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Publication Date:  August 10, 2022 Format:  Kindle Genre:   Time Travel/YA Publisher:  Wild Rose Press Length:  217 pages Buy:    Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis Nova Scotia has kept an incredible secret for centuries. In 1795, sixteen-year-old John Smith, convinced he’s found buried treasure, digs down into a mysterious pit on a small island. In present day Nova Scotia, twelve-year-old Elisabeth London knows there’s no such thing as magic, but when she finds herself in 17th century Scotland, she no longer knows what to think. While under the guardianship of a kind-hearted Highlander, Elisabeth discovers his ancestral home holds a mystery o...

The Acadian Secret Tammy Lowe (The Acadian Secret, #1) Published by: The Wild Rose Press Publication date: August 10th 2022 Genres: Action, Adventure, Time-Travel, Young Adult Nova Scotia has kept an incredible secret for centuries. In 1795, sixteen-year-old John Smith, convinced he’s found buried treasure, digs down into a mysterious pit on a small island. ​In present day Nova Scotia, twelve-year-old Elisabeth London knows there’s no such thing as magic, but when she finds herself in 17th century Scotland, she no longer knows what to think. While under the guardianship of a kind-hearted Highlander, Elisabeth discovers his ancestral home holds a mystery of its own. ​As John continues to dig the strange pit, he inadvertently begins the longest running, most expensive, and deadliest treasure hunt in history. Now, Elisabeth London and John Smith each try to unravel the secrets consuming them, unaware that a tormented young man holds the string weaving all of their lives together...

Dark Blue Waves Kimberly Sullivan Publication date: May 27th 2022 Genres: Adult, Historical, Romance, Time-Travel, Women’s Fiction When you wake up in Bath, England two hundred years in the past, how far can a love of Jane Austen get you? Janet Roberts dreams of an academic career in literature, so she can hardly believe her good fortune when she’s accepted into a Jane Austen graduate seminar in Bath, England. Settled in Georgian splendor among her seminar colleagues, Janet and her classmates live, eat and breathe Jane Austen. An accident interrupts this idyll when Janet regains consciousness in her own room—back in Regency England. For a scholar of nineteenth-century literature, this should be a dream come true. But Janet quickly learns there’s a world of difference between scholarly knowledge of the written page and maneuvering real life as a reluctant time traveler. Her burgeoning friendship with Emma Huntington eases her entrée into nineteenth-century society. However, ...

  Publication Date:  May 31, 2022 Format:  E-book Genre:   Time Travel Fiction/Mystery Publisher:  Minotaur Books Length:  352  pages Buy:    Kindle  |  Audiobook  Synopsis May 20, 2019:  Homicide detective Mallory is in Edinburgh to be with her dying grandmother. While out on a jog one evening, Mallory hears a woman in distress. She’s drawn to an alley, where she is attacked and loses consciousness. May 20, 1869:  Housemaid Catriona Mitchell had been enjoying a half-day off, only to be discovered that night in a lane, where she’d been strangled and left for dead . . . exactly one-hundred-and-fifty years before Mallory was strangled in the same spot. When Mallory wakes up in Catriona's body in 1869, she must put aside her shock and adj...

Publication Date:  August 18, 2020 Publisher:  Redhook Format:  Paperback Pages:   480   Genre:  Magical Realism  Buy:   Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis: A witch is cursed to relive a doomed love affair  through many lifetimes , as both troubled muse and frustrated artist, in this haunting debut novel. Helen Lambert has lived several lives-a young piano virtuoso in 1890s Paris, an actress in 1930's Hollywood, a rock star in 1970s Los Angeles -- only she doesn't know it. Until she meets a strange man who claims he's watched over her for centuries, bound to her from the beginning. At first, Helen doesn't believe him. Her life is as normal as any other modern career woman's. Then she begins having vivid dreams about ill-fated love and lives cut short. Caught in a curse, Helen will be forced to relive the same tragic events that ruined her previous lives. But with each rebirth, sh...

Release Date:  December 22, 2014 Publisher:  Little Black Cat Format:  Audio Length:  7 hours 16 minutes Narrator:  Angela Dawe Genre:  Romance Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle  Synopsis:  Grad student and cocktail waitress Evelyn Merkholtz has plenty to deal with. Too much to deal with. So, when her runaway best friend calls with a mysterious and urgent request to join her in Scotland, she is secretly more than happy to drop everything and oblige. She's faced with an ancient curse, an adorably hunky villager, and a super hot (but possibly murderous), Highland warrior from the 18th century - and realizes that getting burned at the stake is a really bad way to get out of writing her thesis. Review: I had high hopes for this book but it left me wanting.  It felt like a 2nd rate version of Outlander by Diana Gabaldon. The chemistry between Evelyn and the Scottish hottie was barely there, in fact I couldn't figure out who he ...

Release Date:  September 12, 2007 Publisher:  Recorded Books Format:  Audio Length:  10 hours 58 minutes Narrator:  Kim Staunton Genre:  Fiction Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis:  Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stay grows longer, more arduous, and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or not Dana's life will end, long before it has a chance to begin. Review:  Octavia Butler's most famous novel, The Kindred is amazing book.  Dana, a young African American woman, married to a white man, who has just started a career as a writer in California, is suddenly...

Release Date: March 1, 2017 Publisher:  Switch Press Format: Kindle Pages: 360 pages Genre: YA fiction Buy: Hardcover Synopsis:  Still mourning the loss of her beloved grandmother and shaken by her mysterious, dying request to find the baby, Abbi has just arrived at UW Madison for her freshman year. But on her second day, she wakes up to a different world: 1983. That is just the first stop on Abbis journey backward through time. Will is a charming college freshman from 1927 who travels forward through time. When Abbi and Will meet in the middle, love adds another complication to their lives. Communicating across time through a buried time capsule, they try to decode the mystery of their travel, find the lost baby, and plead with their champion, a kindly physics professor, to help them find each other again ... even though the professor gets younger each time Abbi meets him. Review: This book reminded me a little of the Time Travelers Wife, in that Abbi keeps...

Title: Sent by Margaret Peterson Haddix Publisher: Simon & Schuster 308 pages Genre: Young Adult (Sci Fi / Adoption) Synopsis: Jonah and Chip have just discovered the shocking truth of their pasts: They're famous missing children from history.  Before they can fully comprehend what that means, Jonah and Katherine are zapped back in time along with Chip and another boy, Alex. When they land in the fifteenth century, they learn that Chip is really Edward V, king of England, and Alex is his younger brother Richard, Duke of York. But the thrill of being the king wears off quickly - its no fun being royalty when someone is trying to kill you...especially when that someone is your uncle, the infamous Richard of Gloucester! JB promises that if the kids can set history straight and fix time, he will bring them back to the present day. But how can they possibly return home safely when history claims that Chip and Alex were murdered? Review: The second Book in the Missing Ser...