I thoroughly enjoyed it, and now Barbara is my guest.
About Barbara
Barbara began her career as a copywriter and artist with over twenty-five years in
the fields of Marketing and Graphic Design. Beginning in 2014, she took her
love of writing to new heights with her debut novel, "The Lincoln
Penny." In the following years and as her loyal readers asked for more,
"The Lover's Eye, Book 2" and "The Celtic Key, Book 3" were
released in her time travel trilogy. Barbara's novels reveal her genuine
passion for history and innate ability to blend authentic detail with
imaginative speculation. Living history, firsthand, she is an avid American
Civil War reenactor whose need to bring the past to life eventually formed the
backdrop for her absorbing and heartwarming tales.
About THE LINCOLN PENNY
History
geek Jane Peterson, a small-town girl with a passion for antiques, has hit the
refresh button on her life. She breaks ties with her childhood home and gives
up on love to live in Savannah, Georgia, a city she is drawn to like a moth to
a flame.
Landing
her dream job, Jane makes friends and takes up a new hobby. Participating in a
weekend Civil War reenactment with her co-worker, Sophie Downing, a devastating
event thrusts her into a raging siege with brutal consequences. The year 2012 suddenly
resets to 1862, during the bloodiest conflict in American history.
Jane's
ghostly appearance is a bad omen to the doomed Confederate soldiers at Fort
Pulaski. In a chilling twist, the charitable heart of a handsome lieutenant and
arrogance of a Union general decide her destiny. She must cross hostile enemy
lines and seek shelter with strangers. Cradled in the antebellum home of
Lieutenant Hopkins’ family, lost and homesick, she struggles with her unbelievable
circumstances.
Testing
her modern-day experience in a primitive environment, Jane finds the lack of
simple hygiene and practices of nineteenth-century medicine appalling. She challenges
the attitudes and restraints forced upon her and all women of the period. She
puzzles over a mysterious force that is powerful enough to turn her life upside-down.
In
a story of good and evil, murder, intrigue, and the supernatural Jane must find
a way to survive one hundred fifty years from everything she knows. And there
is no escape from the grim truth. Her existence in the past alters the future
and puts lives in danger.
Jane
Peterson has vanished without a trace! Bryce McKenzie, a hard-driving pre-med student
at the University of Georgia in Athens, has been Jane’s best friend since third-grade.
They share a unique bond. But when did she capture his heart? Refusing to
accept the possibility Jane is dead, Bryce vows never to give up on the woman
he loves. With help from Sophie Downing, the only witness to Jane’s freak
disappearance, he searches for the key to unlock an impossible mystery.
Excerpt
The hearty male guffaw that
follows jerks Jane fully awake. An involuntary “oof” leaves her lips as she
props on one sore elbow. She takes a deep breath to draw strength and calls,
“Hey, out there.”
Dead silence.
“Hell-lo,” she sings
irritably. Rolling to her side away from the wall, Jane pushes up to her knees.
“Am I hearin’ things?” comes
Jeb’s rickety whisper.
“Hush!” the other clips, all
joking aside. “Not another word, Jeb, ya hear. Watch’is door. I’ll be back.”
Jane feels rocky. Her dress
is all over the place, but she manages to stand. Sticky dampness makes her
shiver. The chill creeps under her clothes and she hugs herself. “My cape! Good
Lord, Sophie’s goin’ to kill me.”
Jane searches blindly, using the toe of her boot and not wanting to stray too
far. She suppresses the fear of something crawling up her leg.
“Not funny,” she croaks her
frustration at the barrier between her and the outside. Her throat is scratchy
and her mouth tastes bitter. Not caring to wait, Jane feels for a door handle
and finds one. She tugs the outline of a cool iron ring. Leaning, she thrusts
forward with her shoulder. Her weight is no match for the heavy obstacle.
“Seriously, open up and let me out of here!”
Jane rests her head against
the hard wooden surface. Fortunately, it is not long before there is an absurd
amount of scrambling on the other side. Among throaty grunts and scuffing
sounds, she can hear objects being shoved across the floor to make way.
“Stand ready,” a gravelly
voice orders in a thick Irish brogue. “Well, go on. Quit acting the maggot and
open it. Careful now, gentlemen.”
The door creaks ajar and swings
wide. Dim, dusty light inches along the floor where Jane has instinctively
planted her feet to brace herself. For what, she is not sure.
“Step out.”
Jane’s eyes slowly adjust to
her predicament. A row of muddy men in shabby garb huddle nervously, looking
every bit like a gaze of wide-eyed raccoons. Three, have rifles drawn, the tips
of their lethal bayonets pointed in her direction. She cautiously steps into
the adjoining room with her hands up and feeling totally ridiculous for doing
so.
Coming Soon: Books Two and Three of the Trilogy
Coming Soon: Books Two and Three of the Trilogy
The
Lover's Eye: A Time Travel Series, Book 2 — A
heated clash between modern-day thinking and nineteenth-century ideals emerges
as Jane Peterson and Bryce McKenzie struggle to exist in 1863 war-torn America.
Follow Jane as she lets go of her past, endures great hardships and makes tough
choices that will alter history, including her own, forever. Encounter shocking
truths Bryce must face in his harrowing search for Jane and the ominous plot
that involves him in an unbelievable event. Discover the dark secrets of a
supernatural force that will sweep you back, once again, to the vibrant people
of the past and bloody backdrop of the American Civil War.
The
Celtic Key: A Time Travel Series, Book 3 — Hop
times and span continents in this final journey that unravels an incredible
mystery and turns the course of history upside-down. Answering a call to duty,
Jane and her Confederate Major are compelled to carry extraordinary facts to a
famous General. In the midst of a tumultuous event and raging Civil War, their
plans go terribly awry. Hit hard by tragedy, Sophie Downing's escape from an
age-old faction plunges her deep into the dangerous ploy of an unknown enemy.
She is stunned to learn her real destiny lies in the life of another.
Heartbroken and disease-ridden, Bryce McKenzie returns to the future. Because of
dramatic revelations and unfathomable change, he becomes convinced of his
deep-seated connection to Jane. Are their lives forever entwined?
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