Settling herself in the shadow of Slains Castle, she creates a heroine named for one of her own ancestors and starts to write.But when she discovers her novel is more fact than fiction, Carrie wonders if she might be dealing with ancestral memory, making her the only living person who knows the truth-the ultimate betrayal-that happened all those years ago, and that knowledge comes very close to destroying her...Please note: This novel has also been published under a different title: Sophia's Secret.Please note, this title is the original recording, which is now known as Sophia's Secret©2010 Susanna Kearsley (P)2011 Audible, Inc.

    Fleeing to her sister's house in the Welsh borders to recuperate, she is disturbed by the cries of a mysterious child. Two thousand years before, the same valley is the site of a great battle between Caractacus, king of the mighty Catuvellauni tribe, and the invading Romans. The proud king is captured and taken as a prisoner to Rome with his wife and daughter, the princess Eigon. Jess is inexorably drawn to investigate Eigon's story, and as the Welsh cottage is no longer a peaceful sanctuary she determines to visit Rome. There lie the connections that will reveal Eigon's astonishing life - and which threaten to reawaken Jess's own tormentor.Barbara Erskine's ability to weave together the past and the present, shedding light on a real but little-known figure, makes this a tremendous novel of Roman and Celtic history, passion and intrigue.

    She finds herself transported to 1888 Texas in the middle of a murder trial. Turner Reardon is on trial for killing his mistress. He's given up all hope when an oddly dressed young woman disrupts his trial, claiming she can prove his innocence. Her testimony is brilliant, but his optimism is short lived when she also claims she's a lawyer. Charity doesn't know how she arrived in Prairie, and no one believes she actually went to law school. Her evidence is tossed out and Turner is sentenced to hang. She has only one chance to save an innocent man's life and find the real killer.

    When he wakes up on the ways of his grandfather's boatyard and realizes he's been transported back to 1938, he must decide what to do before the dangerous hurricane he'd been studying in school hits. While the main character is a 12 year old boy, Oliver's story, and the story of a powerful weather event that still reverberates along the east coast, is more than appropriate for an adult audience. Written by a 2004 Olympian in sailing, this charming story includes 8 original illustrations, a glossary of nautical terms and a short history of the Great Hurricane of 1938 that devastated the eastern seaboard. The revised edition includes more photographs, maps, a History of Coastal Schooners and is accompanied by a new Teacher's Guide.

    Sarah refuses to speak, and drawings of her father's death become her only means of communication--until she reveals that Geoff continues to read her stories. Are the ghostly whispers a figment of a bereaved little girl's imagination, or can Sarah really speak to the dead? The search for answers leads Sarah's mother, Chris, on a whirlwind journey through time. In the age of Reconstruction, Chris must unravel the web that binds Geoff's murder to the violent demise of his ancestor George Cameron. She leaves a diary for Geoff, hoping to break the chain of tragic events, only to find that Sarah holds the link between the worlds of the living and the dead.

    The war hangs in the balance. But Nazi Germany may soon have a weapon to tip the scale. Germany, 1942. When Hitler's leading nuclear physicists hesitate to develop an atom bomb, SS officer Max Heldorf conceives of an ingenious plan. But only one physicist can solve the formidable scientific problems essential for success: Hannah Goldmann, who is facing death in an extermination camp. Denmark, 1942. As Jorgen Sorensen's Resistance cell progresses from acts of sabotage to planning one of the most spectacular Resistance operations of World War II - the rescue of all of Denmark's Jews - he realizes there is a traitor in their midst. New York, 1942. The American secret service recruits WAAC Christina Lindgren for intelligence work in Sweden. On a return mission, Christina finds herself trapped with a vital message - and an unknown stranger. And what is the terrible secret of Morko, a hitherto deserted island halfway between Denmark and Sweden? Only two people outside the island have any idea: Reichminister Albert Speer and Peder, an autistic ten-year-old Danish boy who is unable to tell what he has seen. The Devil's Alchemists interweaves these stories against a backdrop of history as it races to a stunning, unforgettable climax. www.arhomer.com A.R. Homer is the author of The Sobs of Autumn's Violins

    At least one person knew what was coming, Valerie Brooks, an involuntary time traveler from Victorian England, but her foreknowledge doesn’t help her. Declared a witch by the townspeople of Pompeii and sold into slavery, she has to find a way to make her master, Christos, believe her so they can escape the town before Vesuvius erupts.But given the mistrust between them fired by the jealousy of her master’s scheming lover, Valerie finds her influence dwindling as the deadly time approaches. Racing against the impending destruction of Pompeii, she must not only decipher the mystery of her time-shift, but the mystery of love as well.

    What they don't know is that there are Warriors who fight constantly on their behalf in secret places known as Hollows where magic runs rampant and dreams are far more than just idle imaginings. One such place is Lloyd's Hollow. One such Warrior is Buggy Crenshaw. Eleven-year-old Buggy Crenshaw is a wildly curious and dangerously imaginative little girl who deems herself a writer, although she's sure her imagination has nodded off lately since all she's able to write about is how she somehow manages to save the world from some great and perilous evil. But just before her twelfth birthday, Buggy's life takes an abrupt turn toward the fantastically unimaginable when her father's curious invention, his Tremendous Time-Traveling Trailblazer, suddenly explodes, catapulting their family to that magical place called Lloyd's Hollow. Once there, Buggy learns it wasn't by chance her family wound up in this secret pocket of the world, nor were her stories simply the works of a rutted mind. She's quick to learn the world is about to be overtaken by an ancient evil that is not only familiar to her, but has been expecting her arrival! Buggy Crenshaw and The Bungler's Paradox is the first book in the teen fantasy series In Search of the Nexus. "The storyline presents predicaments full of mischief and laugh-out-loud hilarity...In one word: COOL!" Sherryl King-Wilds, fantasynovelreview.com "With a clever combination of magic and mystery, The Bungler's Paradox is an enchanting story. Author R. M. Wilburn weaves a tale rich in imagination, yet sprinkled with a good dose of reality." Joyce Handzo, curledupkids.com "As the start of her imaginative series, Wilburn simply could not have done better." Gary Cassel, Flamingnet Book Reviews

    Who can resist when a few of earth’s ordinary citizens prove to be aliens from another universe? A lost starship, mysteriously recovered after 40 years, gives Marion Justo the opportunity to learn about his family’s most prized possession. Given command of the Isian, disaster follows when intrigue separates the young captain from his father, and plunges him through an undiscovered space vortex, leaving him lost in an uncharted universe. It will take all his skill as a devout student of the Eight Pearls of Is to gain the trust of a terrestrial family, his only hope to avoid destruction. What if Eternity is a place where decay cannot exist, and Time is a place where decay is rampant? What if current science and space travel is based on mediaeval thinking rather than higher level realities? Captain Justo from the Planet Is will challenge your core scientific beliefs and change the genre of Science Fiction forever.

    A Passion that couldn't be denied.Caitlyn Edwards has always lived her life between two worlds. One...in the hustle and bustle of modern day Boston, the other in the arms of a man she only sees in her dreams. William Davenport is a man torn between duty and what he wants. A chance encounter with Caitlyn triggers dreams of a life he can't remember living and soon a woman he can't seem to forget, starts to invade his every day world.Will Caitlyn and William discover their past in time to change their future? Will the mistakes of years gone by repeat themselves? Or will a love once denied be reunited?

    It has an historical theme, the real attempt by 16 th century Spanish explorers to discover the Terra Australis Incognita, King Solomon's mines and the secret of eternal youth. The protagonist, an amnesia victim, is coerced into astral travel experiments that propell him into the past. He experiences a tremendous adventure, witnessing an alchemist explorer's quest that takes us from Spain to the Americas before crossing the Pacific to the Islands of Solomon. And while our astral travelling hero witnesses all of this, he himself discovers the secret of his own true identity.

    What’s that they say? Be careful what you wish for? Well that’s a motto Reese should have tattooed across her forehead. Because Loki, the Norse god of mischief, has just the remedy for the boring life of this woman who denounces his existence. His recipe for disaster? Take a 30 year-old woman and send her back in time as a pawn for revenge. Couple her with Eirik Sigurdsson, a Viking Warlord, too arrogant and baggage-laden to be of any use for anything, but battle and bed. Mix thoroughly, folding in a heavy dose of pride, a tyrannical king, and a sympathetic goddess. Bake at high until a white-hot love is unleashed and then forever frozen in time. NOTE: The Viking Wants Forever was previously published as Frozen in Time. The story has been expanded by 42,000 words.

    James-Cyrus Hoffmann has just inherited his grandfather's farm, and with it a mysterious cabin deep in the woods on Hoffmann mountain; a cabin he has dreamed about since childhood. When James-Cyrus enters the cabin, he is vaulted back through time to the Civil War era, where he meets Elizabeth, the brave young woman who lives in the cabin, and Malachi, a runaway slave. James-Cyrus realizes his dreams of the cabin were visions of the past, and that Elizabeth is his great-great aunt-a woman who vanished without a trace from the family tree. He also learns of his ancestors' pivotal role in the lives of runaway slaves who were offered a safe haven at the cabin, a station on the underground railroad.

    Stories, More Stories A and More Stories B involve familiar situations and a variety of fantasy settings through the magic key adventures.

    Something goes terribly wrong and she wakes up in the year 1888! Contending with time travel was bad enough, but one ornery, albeit handsome, sheriff wants to put a noose around her slender neck, accusing her of murder! Sheriff Andrew Robinson's ordered world was always black and white. Gray areas were not to be tolerated, until he makes a slender green eyed beauty his prisoner. Searching for the way back to her time, Geri and Andrew learn that once a promise is made it can transcend time to be FOREVER PROMISED.

    He found his one true love.(Sold previously under the title KnightStalker.)Sir Michel of Banesford has vowed to liege and Lord to stop the killings at any cost, and it has cost him much. Tracking a murderer into a future world he knows nothing about is challenging. When he rescues a comely lady from an attack and asks a night’s shelter from the storm in recompense, she reluctantly agrees. He soon comes to appreciate her strength in facing life on her own and her fierce protectiveness of her son. She is a lady he could love.Rachael is a single mother with a five-year-old son who suffers nightmares about a killer knight. She is clueless how to stop them. When a medieval re-enactor rescues her from an attack in the park near her flat, she feels she owes him at least one night’s shelter from the storm. But there is something about this knight that rings too true. Is he the killer in her son’s dark dreams?As Rachael helps Michel adjust to the present day, their love and attraction grows. But there is a killer to be caught, and her young son’s dreams are the key to stopping him.If you enjoy out-of-time contemporary romance with a touch of humor, mixed with a stout-hearted hero and a heroine who would lay down her life for those she loves, then you will enjoy reading the story of Michel and Rachael as they struggle with Michel’s adjustment to modern life, with their intense attraction to one another, and with their challenge of tracking down a killer before he kills again.Read this contemporary time travel romance and see the wonders of modern day life through the eyes of a medieval knight.