Three sweeping adventures through time!
Canadian history comes alive as ordinary men and women experience extraordinary situations and learn lessons about love, their choices, their personal values, their hopes and dreams, in these three western time-travel romances.
Follow them through the Barkerville gold rush in Yesterday’s Gold, the Riel Rebellion in Now And Then, and tin A Distant Echo, the massive rockslide that buried part of the mining town of Frank in Alberta on April 29, 1903.
Each book is a romantic love story set against historical reality.
Each book takes the reader on a journey into the past, and poses the eternal questions of the human heart.
Book 1
Now and Then
Indian legend says that the spirit can overcome all obstacles, even time itself.
But Doctor Paige Randolph doubts that anything can help her recover from the loss of her child and her failed marriage—until a mysterious crop circle casts her back one hundred years.
The gifted doctor has dedicated herself to bringing new life into the world, and not even the savage Canadian frontier or the Riel Rebellion can stop her. As headstrong as she is beautiful, she’ll fight against primitive practices and mystical medicine men, and even ignorant government, using native potions and strange herbs to save lives.
But after a love she never expected changes her life, and the teachings of a mighty shaman open her mind, Paige learns that, just as she cannot deny the yearnings of her heart, neither can she ignore the powerful truths of the spirit world.
A powerful time-travel historical romance, Now And Then explores native Canadian history and the complicated path one woman chooses when her destiny takes her on an unusual journey.
Book 2
Yesterday’s Gold
A Romantic Time Travel Adventure In Canada’s North.
Hannah Gilmore is about to be married to a member of one of Victoria B.C.’s notable families. But first, she’s promised to take her mother, Daisy, to Barkerville, the historical site of a B.C. gold rush, to search out the resting place of an ancestor. Daisy insists on bringing her incontinent dog. And the trip becomes impossibly complicated when her mother invites her difficult friend, Elvira, along. A bridge collapses, and suddenly Hannah and her irritating companions are in Barkerville.
But it’s 1868, the height of the Cariboo gold rush. They have to accept accommodation from a saloonkeeper named Logan McGraw, a mysterious, handsome man who fought in the American Civil War, and who has a secret agenda for being in Barkerville. Hannah and her companions soon learn that women have no rights in this time and place.
But the three women are stubborn, intrepid, and imaginative. They set out to bring a semblance of women’s liberation to the primitive and harsh conditions, always hoping to return to their own time. But Hannah, who was about to be married, finds that now she’s falling in love, and the man she loves is accused of murder, a hanging offence. Can a modern-day woman trapped in a long ago time find a way to save him? Western historical time travel at its best!
Author Interview
What inspired you to write this book?
At a troubled time in my life, I ran away to Barkerville. I visited the old cemetery, reading the names and ages of the souls buried there. They seemed to haunt the lonely burial hillside, and I decided they needed a book. So I borrowed some of their names and created a new life for them.
Favorite characters?
I loved them all, but particularly Daisy, Hannah’s mother. She grew stronger and more capable as the book progressed, and I so admired her courage and ingenuity.
I hope you fall in love reading Yesterday’s Gold. I fell in love writing it.
Book 3
A Distant Echo
Travel across time!
A mountain slides across the small town of Frank, Alberta, trapping and killing the residents beneath a million tons of rock.
Tom and Jackson, fortune hunters, watch the catastrophe in a movie–the disaster occurred over a hundred years ago.
But suddenly, inexplicably the two adventurers are transported back in time. The town of Frank is intact, the disaster still a year ahead.
Can they warn people about what’s about to happen?
What can they do if no one is prepared to believe them?
They have no usable money, nowhere to stay–and they’re thrown in jail, suspected of robbery.
They’re about to learn lessons involving kindness, generosity, and the power of love–but they’re also about to encounter brutality, disbelief, poverty and frustration.
The lives they had before are nothing more than a distant echo.
Is there a way back?
They have a plan, but it will mean leaving behind all those they’ve come to love and abandoning the town on the very night of the disaster.
Love and Money–Tom and Jackson much choose between the two.
A time travel historical romance that will keep you reading long past bedtime!