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When husband and wife Eve and Patrick Gantly discover a shocking secret from Patrick's past, they make the difficult decision to use the old lantern once again to return to 1885. They hope to save his child from a tragic future. Although they try to plan for every possible contingency, something goes wrong. They lose each other and end up in a different time! Nothing goes as planned. They struggle to save Patrick's daughter from certain death, even as they search for the lost lantern that will return them to their own time.

Eve and Patrick Gantly are living a normal life in 2019 New York, preparing to celebrate the Christmas season. To their delight, Eve is three months pregnant. Despite their happiness, Eve is having premonitions that something dreadful is about to occur. Concerned about the future and the safety of their child, she insists that they destroy the time-travel lantern.

The day Patrick is to leave for Florida to meet up with Eve and baby Colleen for Christmas, he receives a shocking telephone call from one of Eve's cousins. Sobbing, she tells him a terrible tragedy has occurred. His life shattered, Patrick knows he must use the time travel lantern to return to the past in order to prevent the current tragedy. But once again, the time travel lantern has a mind of its own....

Thirty-year-old Eve Sharland is browsing a Pennsylvania antique store when she discovers an old brass lantern tucked away on a shelf. She picks it up and sees something behind one of the sooty glass panes. To her surprise, she finds an unopened letter stuck inside. The letter is postmarked December 24, 1885, and it is addressed to Evelyn Sharland in New York City. Eve gasps and drops the letter. That's her name!

Rita Randall, a celebrated film noir actress in 1948, leaves LA after a fatal confrontation. Clint West is a best-selling author in 2019, struggling to move on after the death of his wife. Rita and Clint travel to Long Island, New York and occupy the same beach house - 71 years apart. When Rita appears in the background of Clint’s recent cell phone photos, he’s mystified. When Clint appears in Rita’s photos, she’s troubled and confused. Clint investigates and learns about secret time travel experiments that were conducted in the area during the 1940s.

Can Cindy Survive the Past to Find Her Future? In 2022, Cindy Downing, a 25-year-old woman with a troubled past, kills her billionaire boyfriend in self-defense and flees, boarding an Amtrak train headed for Chicago. While passing through a tunnel, the train plunges through a burst of light—into another time and place. When Cindy regains consciousness, she is shocked to find herself on a 19th-century steam locomotive heading to Denver, Colorado. A scheming woman has switched Cindy’s identity, and she’s forced to be a mail-order bride contracted to marry a cruel, wealthy man who still ...

In 1944 London, Anne Billings is off to meet Ken, a dashing American bomber pilot, when she and her four-year-old son, Tommy, get caught in an air raid. Anne clutches Tommy's hand as they run for the nearest shelter. In a terrifying blast, Tommy is swept away, and Anne is blown into the air...landing, near death, in New York's Central Park. When she awakens in the hospital, she has no memory. It is 2008. The handsome Dr. Jon Miles falls for the mysterious Anne, and he attempts to help her as she begins to remember her true identity.

In November 2021, Eve and Patrick grow uneasy when they read an article about the arrest of a strange, disoriented woman on the Lower East Side. Based on the descriptions of her clothing and behavior, Eve is sure the woman has time traveled. She convinces Patrick they must help the woman, as others had helped them during their time travel journeys.

In 1968, Charlotte Vance was one of the few women employed by the National Security Agency in Washington, D.C. She put in long hours and was working when a fire started in her home. Her daughters and husband were killed. For 50 years, she has felt responsible for their deaths. In 2018, when a former colleague from the NSA mentions a top secret government agency that is experimenting with time travel, she decides to apply.

BETRAYED is a heart-racing story that can be consumed in a few quick hours.While on their Caribbean honeymoon, Erika’s wealthy husband disappears. Theirs had been a whirlwind romance, and much of Richard’s life remains a mystery to Erika. While she’s struggling to find out what happened to him, two men burst into her room, drug her and search the villa. The next morning, the local police arrive and begin to search the island for Richard. When Erika meets the handsome and mysterious shadow soldier, Adam Caine, she learns the ugly truth about her husband. She falls for Adam, while ...

ONE MINUTE, SINGER ROXIE RAINES is in a 2019 West Village nightclub and the next, she’s traveled back in time to New York’s raucous Roaring Twenties! Her modern sound captivates an eager audience and she’s falling in love with a handsome detective, but can her out-of-time dream life truly last? Struggling West Village singer Roxie Raines stumbles through a secret basement doorway in 2019, and time-slips back to New York’s raucous Roaring Twenties. While she dazzles the speakeasy crowds with her “modern sound,” she gets trapped in the dangerous web of Frankie Shay, an evil club ...

IT'S THE ROARING TWENTIES OF 1925, and Roxie Raines is recovering from the fire that nearly killed her and ruined her voice. She and her detective boyfriend, Jake Kane, are in love, but their timing is always a little off. Jake has taken on a dangerous murder case and is almost killed. Roxie pleads with him to drop the case, but he refuses, and he and Roxie split. Roxie resumes her singing career, signing a lucrative contract at a trendy club. The imposing owner insists that, for publicity, she be seen with a rich and handsome playboy. On their first date, they attend a raucous party at ...

Rita was Alan's First Chance at Love... and his Last. When his high school sweetheart experiences a devastating tragedy, Dr. Alan Lincoln reluctantly returns to his Pennsylvania hometown to see her. It’s been fifteen years. Rita was a small-town beauty queen—his first love whom he has never forgotten. He was a nerd from a wealthy family. Her family was poor. They formed a strong connection during their senior year, but Rita married someone else, and the marriage ended tragically. Alan’s marriage of three years is disintegrating, and he sees in Rita the chance to begin again with the ...

“Christmas for Juliet” is a romantic drama with a touch of mystery. After Juliet Sinclair divorces her unfaithful husband, she expects to pick up the pieces of her life and move on. The unexpected death of her father forces a change. She quits her job and moves back to Ohio, determined to investigate the loss of a substantial amount of money, which places her father’s character in question. When she learns of a mysterious woman who had close ties with him, she begins to doubt the perfect father she’d always known. While on her journey to find the truth, Juliet is involved in a ...

Get ready for the trip of a lifetime! Like any other waitress, Dina Lee has big dreams. She wants a new life, a better life—she wants romantic adventure, especially since her last two relationships were disasters. When, out of the blue, she receives an anonymous gift to travel first class to three of the most exciting and exotic cities in the world during the Christmas season, she is stunned, conflicted, and skeptical. Who would give her such a gift? What would they want in return? Is it too good to be true? Dina is assured by her benefactor’s representative that it is indeed true and ...

New York City PI, Dane Cooper, unearths dark family secrets and falls for a woman who could get him killed.Cooper is hired by a Tennessee man to find his handsome, 20-year-old son named Elvis, who has been missing for several months. Though hesitant at first, Dane takes the case because he needs the money. And then he meets Darcy... a troubled, pretty blonde with a talent for caressing secrets. Dane learns that the case centers around Darcy, and against his better judgment, he falls for her, believing she might lead him to Elvis. Her dangerous secrets worry him, and he knows he can’t ...

FRANTIC is a fast, double-shot-of-espresso read. Its heart-racing story can be consumed in a few quick hours.Jenny’s life is shattered when her Special Ops husband is killed. To escape the pain, she falls into a dangerous cycle of self-destruction. One terrible night, she kills a violent man in self-defense. Jenny runs off into the unknown, desperate to turn her life around. That’s when the handsome cop, Lieutenant Jon Dowling, appears. Her new life is threatened by secrets from the past -- and she must fight for her life.

Twenty years disappear, and it is as if they are back in high school with all its insecurities, romance and dreams. When 38-year old Trudie Parks learns that her high school drama teacher is seriously ill, she immediately contacts her two best friends in high school, Kristen and Mary Ann. Together, they’d been known as “The Christmas Girls.” They’d produced and starred in the annual high school Christmas show, which their teacher, Mrs. Childs, had directed. Determined to show their love for Mrs. Childs, they plan a 20-year reunion to recreate the Christmas show for her. What they ...

A Secret Affair that Touches the Entire World... Joanna Halloran, a best-selling writer and astrologer, lives in a beach house overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. While roaming the beach after a storm, she spots a man clinging to a piece of wreckage, fighting for his life. She dives in and pulls him to safety. Robert Zachary Harrison is from a wealthy, political family. As he slowly recovers from a private plane crash, he and Joanna fall in love and spend passionate and secluded weeks together. But because of family duty, Robert departs, not knowing Joanna is pregnant. Twenty-five years later, ...

A hot summer beach— A marriage gone wrong— Daring eyes and daring love— Betrayed by a secret passion. A fast-paced novel that sparkles with passion, mystery and suspense. A perfect summer read, or cozy-by-the-fire adventure. —Emma Sheffington Kim feels trapped in a loveless marriage to a jealous, wealthy older man. He blames her for crippling him in an auto accident that he himself caused. Kim strives to make the marriage work, despite her husband’s blame, verbal abuse, and bitterness. When she meets a wickedly handsome man on the beach, she fights not to want him, not to want a ...