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Time Travel Swap

Genres: Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Romance
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+

With her rock band about to hit the big time, Carly Munro is stunned and infuriated when she falls victim to a rock star wannabe who steals her life in a time travel swap. Stuck thirty years in the future, she's desperate to reclaim her life. Her band needs her. So does her guitarist boyfriend. But the doorway that transported her to 2054 now seems to be locked. A guy named Ian takes her in and becomes her ally as she tries find her way home. Their pursuit of the truth is complicated as they develop feelings for one another. But staying with Ian is out of the question. She has no intention of giving up the music career she’s worked so hard to build. A time travel romance set against the backdrop of a changing rock music scene. To her ears, the pop music of 2054 sounds like it’s...

The October That Changed Everything

Genres: Historical Fiction, Womens Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+

In the autumn of 1962, Cheryl Donovan falls in love with an Army pilot. But all is not right with the world. President Kennedy announces that the Soviet Union has deployed nuclear missiles in Cuba and they’re aimed at the United States. As the world teeters on the brink of nuclear war, Cheryl can’t be sure she’ll even wake up tomorrow. It seems like the stars are aligned against her as she faces one crisis after another. She discovers the handsome pilot she’s falling for thinks a woman’s place is in the home, which won’t do at all. An overheard conversation puts her in the sights of a dangerous criminal. And her two best friends are keeping momentous secrets that further complicate her life. With the fate of the world hanging in the balance, Cheryl is pulled in different directions as she struggles to remain true to her heart. A...

Livvy and the Enchanted Woodland

Genres: Historical Fiction, Magical Realism, Romance
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+

“Magic happens all the time. You just have to look for it.” That’s what Livvy Sloan’s Grandma used to say. But as the Great Depression settles over rural Georgia in 1930, magic is hard to come by. Losing the family farm looms larger day by day. So Livvy escapes to her secret woodland most afternoons to create forest sculptures. That’s where she meets a mysterious Englishman on horseback who admires her art and makes her heart race. But there’s something amiss about Gordon Collins. Back home she’s pursued by Coy Whitaker. With good looks and money to spare, he’s eager to help Livvy and her family in their time of need. She gives him a chance, pushing doubts aside. As her family is hammered by one disaster after another, Livvy finds herself hoping against hope and trying to find some of that magic Grandma talked about. Historical fantasy. Magical realism....

A Suffragette in Time

Genres: Historical Fiction, Romance, Fantasy
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+

Thrown back in time to the mid-1800s, Sarah Burns transforms herself into a suffragette and joins the fight for women’s right to vote. Because she’s taken in by a family that operates a station on the Underground Railroad, she’s also thrust into the dangerous work of helping runaway slaves escape to freedom. With all of that on her plate, is there room for romance in her life? Courage and grit are mandatory as she faces challenges from every direction. There’s the arrogant abolitionist who seems to have eyes for her while dismissing her cause as irrelevant. There’s the conventional lawyer who thinks she should be his wife. There are the hecklers on the lecture circuit who argue that a woman’s place is in the home. Worst of all are the slave hunters who will stop at nothing to kidnap anyone they can pass off as a fugitive slave. "A Suffragette...

The Time Capsule

Genres: Historical Fiction, Romance, Fantasy
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+

A riveting time travel romance... Searching for meaning in her life, Hannah Myers is disoriented when she finds herself thrown back in time to 1918. Why is she here? And how can she possibly be falling in love with a buttoned-up newspaper reporter named David Wagner? With its quaint trolleys and Model T’s, Atlanta of 1918 is a far cry from the Atlanta she knows in 2019. It’s a dangerous era, with a virulent flu epidemic killing millions while American doughboys are shipped off to fight in the waning days of the First World War. As if that’s not bad enough, the Ku Klux Klan is roaring back to life while a corrupt politician threatens anyone who crosses him, especially a certain reporter. When she learns how high the stakes truly are for David, her instinct is to intervene. But can she rewrite history to save the man she loves?

The Going Back Portal

Genres: Historical Fiction, Romance, Fantasy
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+

Danger and romance in this intriguing time travel novel... Rural Georgia, 1840. Determined to keep her ancestral lands after her family is forced to march west on the Trail of Tears, a young Cherokee Indian woman finds herself trapped by a brutal white man on her own farmstead. When Kathryn Spears arrives from the twenty-first century, Forest Water hopes she's a good spirit come to help her. "The Going Back Portal" is the story of two young women caught in a dangerous confrontation between good and evil where one wrong move could reverberate across generations. Each one falls in love with a man from her own time, but there's no certainty they'll survive the savage who's taken possession of the land and their freedom. A fast-paced time travel novel filled with compelling characters, including some memorable grandmothers who set events in motion.

The Time Telephone

Genres: Magical Realism, Young Adult (YA)
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 12-15, 16-18, 18+

Moments after her mother's funeral, 17-year-old Megan McConnell is filled with grief and regret when she receives a strange call on an antique telephone. She can't help feeling skeptical when the operator tells her she can call her mother in the past, even though her mother is dead. Is it a prank? Or can she actually speak with her mom? More to the point, is it possible she can save her mother from the bomb blast in Afghanistan that took her life? Desperate to bring her mother back, Megan is also hoping for another chance at a genuine mother-daughter relationship with a woman who always chose her career as a foreign correspondent over motherhood. "The Time Telephone" is an unusual time travel story about the search for love, family and friendship that can sometimes be complicated by idealistic expectations. Teen/Young Adult Fiction

VisionSight: a Novel

Genres: Magical Realism, Romance, Womens Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+

What if you could see the future? When Jenna Stevens suddenly inherits the gift of VisionSight, she discovers seeing the future doesn't mean you can change someone's destiny. Even if that destiny is filled of heartache. Her strange clairvoyance only happens when she looks into her loved ones' eyes. So she puts the brakes on a budding romance, gives her best friend the cold shoulder and distances herself from her family, throwing herself instead into her acting career, the arms of a young director she's not too sure of and a newly acquired taste for whiskey sours. "VisionSight: a Novel" is the story of a young woman's search for courage as she tries to help the people she loves. Can Jenna save anyone from The Fates? Can she ever give love a chance? A heartfelt novel of secrets and unexpected love. Magical Realism & Contemporary Women's Fiction.

A Daffodil for Angie

Genres: Romance, Young Adult (YA)
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 12-15, 16-18, 18+

It’s 1966. Mini-skirts are in. Beatlemania is in full swing. And Angie Finley is starting high school with frosted hair and contacts, ready to find a boyfriend. But her dad’s in Vietnam as young men burn their draft cards. School integration turns ugly as a black classmate is bullied. Her mom pushes her to be a cheerleader while women demand equal rights. And a pushy antiwar activist in her class is driving her crazy. But a handsome quarterback thinks her new look is perfect. And he wants to do a lot more than just make out. Set against a backdrop of the tumultuous 1960s, "A Daffodil for Angie" is a vivid coming-of-age story about a teenager grappling with what kind of person she wants to be. Should she trust the adults who sent her father to Vietnam? Should she try to do something about attacks on the first black student...

The Shade Ring, Book 1 of The Shade Ring Trilogy

Genres: Romance, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi), Speculative Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+

The year is 2117. Oceans have risen fifteen feet and it’s 120 degrees in Atlanta as Neave Alvarez graduates with a degree in Climatology. But it’s a field she’s forced into by a domineering father who drags her into his campaign to launch a solar shade ring into space. The goal is to block the sun’s rays and cool the oceans. Neave begins to have doubts during an expedition to sunken Charleston. That’s where she meets the first man to vibrate her molecules, only to discover he’s a clone – a clone who asks infuriating questions about what her scientist parents are really up to. Her quest for the truth plunges her into a dangerous world of political intrigue and dark family secrets where it’s hard to tell who’s the good guy and who’s the bad guy. She wrestles with the meaning of family, whether clones have a soul and...