Beside You In Time

Aurora Morrison, small town librarian, scrimped and saved for a tour of Britain. Immediately upon arrival, she heads to Kensington Gardens for a picnic lunch under the shade of a maple tree bearing the initials of some long-forgotten lovers. Exhausted from the long flight to London, she falls asleep and wakes to find herself somehow thrust back in time to 1902. Jonathan Saunders, a wealthy Edwardian businessman, finds her and takes the dazed and confused woman under his wing, introducing her to his family and friends as an American cousin. How can Aurie help but fall in love with this handsome man of a bygone era? And how can she find her way home to her own time? Newly engaged Jonathan Saunders is fascinated by this mysteriously lost and confused American woman and vows to protect her. When Aurie decides to pursue her original plan--touring the British Isles--Jonathan follows her across England and Wales, his fiancee hot on his heels. He knows he can't have it all, but he doesn't want it all. He just wants Aurora.

In Beside You in Time Elizabeth Freeman expands biopolitical and queer theory by outlining a temporal view of the long nineteenth century. Drawing on Foucauldian notions of discipline as a regime that yoked the human body to time, Freeman shows how time became a social and sensory means by which people assembled into groups in ways that resisted disciplinary forces. She tracks temporalized bodies across many entangled regimes—religion, secularity, race, historiography, health, and sexuality—and examines how those bodies act in relation to those regimes. In analyses of the use of rhythmic dance by the Shakers; African American slave narratives; literature by Mark Twain, Pauline Hopkins, Herman Melville, and others; and how Catholic sacraments conjoined people across historical boundaries, Freeman makes the case for the body as an instrument of what she calls queer hypersociality. As a mode of being in which bodies are connected to others and their histories across and throughout time, queer hypersociality, Freeman contends, provides the means for subjugated bodies to escape disciplinary regimes of time and to create new social worlds.

Book Four of the best-selling Train Through Time series, a historical time travel romance series set in and around Seattle, Spokane, Wenatchee and Montana in the early 1900s. Nathan Carpenter has lost the woman he loves...on a train...to another time. He has lost everything, even himself as he cannot find a way to return to his own time...to 1906. Amanda Cartwright can’t remember the stranger who accosts her on a train one fateful night, though he says they were engaged to be married...in another time...over 100 years ago. Time and the fates seem to conspire to keep Nathan and Amanda apart. Is their love strong enough to find each other in time? Also available: A Train Through Time, Book 1 of the Train Through Time Series Together Forever Through Time, Book 2 of the Train Through Time Series A Smile in Time, Book 3 of the Train Through Time Series Train Through Time Series Boxed Set (Books 1-3)

First in a new cozy mystery series from Minnie Crockwell. Settling into her new condominium on Mirror Pond in Northern Virginia, Sallie Chilcoat, a recent widow, wonders what to do with the rest of her life. She had planned to continue traveling with her military husband, but his early death leaves her at loose ends. Now, she stares out the window at the pond and contemplates learning to kayak...or taking up painting...or climbing Mount Everest. Movement in the overwater gazebo catches her eye, and she grabs up her people-watching binoculars to see a man sitting inside the gazebo playing an accordion. Curious about the musician who plays such a rare instrument, Sallie trots down to the pier to investigate. The term “investigate” takes on a whole new meaning when Sallie reaches the gazebo to discover not a happy musician, but a dead body and a missing accordion. Forget climbing Mount Everest! Sallie finds herself immersed in the mystery of the Death at the Gazebo.

Minnie and Ben are back for more murder and mayhem! Minnie Crockwell, recreational vehicle enthusiast and traveler, and her ghost companion, Ben, are heading north toward Colorado with a side trip to the Diablo Canyon Guest Ranch in northwest New Mexico. Beautiful scenery, private cabins, picnics and cookouts, guided horseback trail rides...what's not to like? One victim will tell you...if they were still speaking. Minnie wanted a vacation, but murder and mayhem take no vacations. Each story in the series can stand alone, but to avoid extensive repetition of the backstory, the books would be best read in order. Book 1 - Trouble at Happy Trails Book 2 - Trouble at Sunny Lake Book 3 - Trouble at Glacier Book 4 - Trouble at Hungry Lake Book 5 – Trouble at Snake and Clearwater Book 6 – Trouble in Florence Book 7 – Trouble in Tombstone Town Book 8 – Trouble in Cochise Stronghold Book 9 – Trouble in Orange Beach Book 10 – Trouble at Pelican Penthouse Book 11 – Trouble at Island Castle Book 12 – Trouble at Yellowstone Book 13 – Trouble at Devils Tower Book 14 – Trouble in El Paso Book 15 – Trouble in Diablo Canyon Book 16 – Trouble in Santa Fe

Book 16 in the Will Travel for Trouble series of cozy mysteries. Minnie and Ben are back for more murder and mayhem! Minnie Crockwell, recreational vehicle enthusiast and traveler, and her ghost companion, Ben, overnight in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Stubbing her toe in the cramped trailer for what she swears is the absolute last time, she delays their departure and heads off to the nearest RV dealership determined to find something roomier, or at least less dangerous to the health of her feet! But death seems to follow Minnie and Ben everywhere they go, even RV shopping. How does a woman choose an RV when one of the upgrades is a dead body? Minnie puts shopping on hold as she focuses on discovering the truth about the Trouble in Santa Fe. Each story in the series can stand alone, but to avoid extensive repetition of the backstory, the books would be best read in order. Book 1 - Trouble at Happy Trails Book 2 - Trouble at Sunny Lake Book 3 - Trouble at Glacier Book 4 - Trouble at Hungry Lake Book 5 – Trouble at Snake and Clearwater Book 6 – Trouble in Florence Book 7 – Trouble in Tombstone Town Book 8 – Trouble in Cochise Stronghold Book 9 – Trouble in Orange Beach Book 10 – Trouble at Pelican Penthouse Book 11 – Trouble at Island Castle Book 12 – Trouble at Yellowstone Book 13 – Trouble at Devils Tower Book 14 – Trouble in El Paso Book 15 – Trouble in Diablo Canyon Book 16 – Trouble in Santa Fe

A new Regency historical romance from Bess McBride! Miss Margaret Chandler, daughter of a wealthy Hertfordshire landowner, has no particular prospects or desire for marriage. Her father’s estate is entailed to a nephew, and upon her father’s death, Margaret has settled plans to keep house for her cousin, who does not care for the country. The only man who could possibly capture her heart is the married Duke of Momford, whose French duchess is trapped in Paris during the war with Napoleon. Margaret is appalled at her scandalous romantic yearnings for the duke. Even more shocking is that her feelings may be reciprocated. Foolish dreams notwithstanding, scrupulous and honest Margaret must come to terms with the dishonest duke.

A mysterious conductor on the Underground Railroad arrives late one night on Anna’s doorway in Iowa to deliver freedom seekers. Although the masked man disappears as quietly as he came, Anna finds she cannot forget him. Nor can the conductor forget her, and when slave catchers pursue Anna and her charges, he returns to rescue them. Love blossoms, but the advent of the American Civil War soon tears them apart. Called upon to spy for the Union Army, the conductor must leave the woman he loves. Can they find each other again in the chaos and destruction of war? Is love truly enough to surmount every obstacle?