Somewhere
in Time
Crosse
Harbor Time Travel Trilogy
Book
One
Barbara
Bretton
Genre:
Time Travel/Romance
Publisher:
Free Spirit Press
ISBN:
9781301712953
ASIN:
B008ELA6VK
Page
count: 300-320
Word
count: Approx. 80,000
Book
Description:
Historian
Emilie Crosse dreamed of a love that would last forever
Who
knew she'd have to sail across two centuries to find it?
When
her ex-husband Zane Grey Rutledge showed up at her door with a
Revolutionary War uniform that was part of his grandmother's estate,
neither one suspected that their lives were about to change in ways
they couldn't possibly imagine.
Swept
back in time to 1776 where a nation is struggling to be born, Emilie
finds herself torn between two men: Zane, her ex who still holds the
key to her heart, and Andrew McVie, the Patriot hero of her long-ago
dreams . . . .
Excerpt from SOMEWHERE IN TIME
Near Philadelphia
Zane Grey Rutledge downshifted into second as he guided the black Porsche up the curving driveway toward Rutledge House. Gravel crunched beneath the tires, sending a fine spray across the lacquered surface of the hood and fenders. He swore softly as a pebble pinged against the windshield, leaving behind a spider-web crack in the glass. A pair of moving vans were angled in the driveway near the massive front door and he eased to a stop behind one of them and let out the clutch.
He didn't want to be there. Rutledge House without his grandmother Sara Jane was nothing more than a haunted collection of faded bricks and stones.
"One day it will all matter to you," Sara Jane had said to him not long before she died. "I have faith that you'll see there's nothing more important than family."
But he didn't have a family. Not anymore. With Sara Jane's death he had moved closer to the edge of the cliff. The lone remaining Rutledge in a long and illustrious series of Rutledges who had made their mark on a country.
Lately he'd had the feeling that his grandmother was watching him from somewhere in the shadows, shaking her head the way she used to when he was a boy and had been caught drinking beer with his friends from the wrong side of town.
He leaned back in his contoured leather seat and watched as the treasures of a lifetime were carried from the house by a parade of moving men. Winterhalter portraits of long-dead Rutledges, books and mementoes that catalogued a nation's history as well as a family's.
His fingers drummed against the steering wheel. He'd done the right thing, the only thing he could have done, given the circumstances. Rutledge House would survive long after he was gone. Wasn't that what his grandmother had wanted?
"Mr. Rutledge? Oh, Mr. Rutledge, it is you. I was so afraid I'd missed you."
He started at the sound of the woman's voice floating through the open window of the car.
"Olivia McRae," she said, smiling coyly as she prompted his memory. "We met last week."
He opened the car door and unfolded himself from the sleek sports car. "I remember," he said, shaking the woman's bird-like hand. "Eastern Pennsylvania Preservation Society."
She dimpled and Zane was struck by the fact that in her day Olivia McRae had probably been a looker.
"We have much to thank you for. I must tell you we feel as if Christmas has come early this year!"
He shot her a quizzical look. She was thanking him? In the past few days he had come to think of her as his own personal savior for taking Rutledge House and its contents off his hands.
"A pleasure," he said, relying on charm to cover his surprise.
"Oh, it's a fine day for Rutledge House," she said, her tone upbeat. "I know your dear departed grandmother Sara Jane would heartily approve of your decision."
"Approve might be too strong a word," he said with a wry grin. "Accept is more like it." Bloodlines had been everything to Sara Jane Rutledge. No matter that the venerable old house had been tumbling down around her ears, in need of more help than even the family fortune could provide. So long as a Rutledge was in residence, all had been right with her world.
Although she never said it in so many words, he knew that in the end he had disappointed her. No wife, no children, no arrow shot into the future of the Rutledge family
"Just you wait," Olivia McRae said, patting his arm in a decidedly maternal gesture. "Next time you see it this wonderful old house will be on the way to regaining its former glory."
"It's up to you now, Olivia."
"We would welcome your input," the older woman said. "And we would most certainly like to have a Rutledge on the board of directors at the museum."
"Sorry," he said, perhaps a beat too quickly. "I think a clean break is better all around."
The woman's warm brown eyes misted over. "How thoughtless of me! This must be dreadfully difficult, coming so soon after the loss of your beloved grandmother."
Zane looked away. Little in life unnerved him. Talk of his late grandmother did. "I have a flight to catch," he said. No matter that the plane didn't take off until the next afternoon. As far as he was concerned, emotions were more dangerous than skydiving without a chute. "I'd better get moving."
Olivia McRae peered into the car. "You do have the package, don't you?"
"Package?" His brows knotted.
"Oh, Mr. Rutledge, you can't leave without the package I set out for you." She looked at him curiously. "The uniform."
"Damn," he muttered under his breath. The oldest male child in each generation is entrusted with the uniform, Sara Jane had told him on his twelfth birthday when she handed him the carefully wrapped package. Someday you'll hand it down to your son.
He hadn't forgotten about the uniform. He knew exactly where it was: in the attic under a thick layer of dust, as forgotten as the past.
"You wait right here," said Mrs. McRae, turning back toward the house. "I'll fetch it for you."
He was tempted to get behind the wheel of the Porsche and be halfway to Manhattan before the woman crossed the threshold. For as long as he could remember that uniform had been at the heart of Rutledge family lore. His grandmother and her sisters had woven endless stories of derring-do and bravery and laid every single one of them at the feet of some long-dead Revolutionary War relative who'd probably never done anything more courageous than shoot himself a duck for dinner.
Moments later Olivia McRae was back by his side.
"Here you are," she said, pressing a large, neatly-wrapped parcel into his arms with the same tenderness a mother would display toward her first-born. "To think you almost left without it."
"Heavier than I remembered," he said. "You're sure there isn't a musket in there with the uniform?"
Mrs. McRae's lined cheeks dimpled. "Oh, you! You always were a tease. Why, you must have seen this uniform a million times."
"Afraid I never paid much attention."
"That can't be true."
"I'm not much for antiques."
"This is more than an antique," she said, obviously appalled. "This is a piece of American history . . . your history." She patted the parcel. "Open it, Mr. Rutledge. I'd love to see your face when you –"
"I will," he said, edging toward the Porsche, "but right now I'd better get on the road."
"Of course," she said, her smile fading. "I understand."
She looked at him and in her eyes Zane saw disappointment. Why should Mrs. McRae be any different? Disappointing people was what he did best.
He tossed the package in the back seat and with a nod toward Olivia McRae, roared back down the drive and away from Rutledge House.
He was almost at the Ben Franklin Bridge when he noticed the needle on his gas gauge was hovering around E. He whipped into the first gas station he saw and couldn't help grinning at the crowd of attendants who swarmed the sports car.
"Fill it," he said. "And it's okay if you want to check under the hood."
He was thinking about where he'd stashed his passport after his weekend in London last month when out of nowhere he heard Sara Jane's voice.
You didn't think I was going to let you get away without a fight, did you?
He jumped, cracking his elbow against the gear stick. Sara Jane? Ridiculous. It was probably his guilty conscience speaking.
It's not too late, Zane. Open your eyes to what's around you and your heart will soon follow . . .
What the hell did that mean? It sounded like something he'd read in a fortune cookie.
He glanced toward the package resting on the seat next to him. Experience had taught him that the best way to handle anything from a hangover to a guilty conscience was the hair of the dog that bit you. He might as well get it over with while he waited.
"Okay," he said out loud, unknotting the string then folding back the brown paper. There was nothing scary about a moth-eaten hunk of fabric, even if he was hearing voices.
He pushed aside the buff-colored breeches and inspected the navy blue coat. Dark beige cuffs and lapels. A line of tarnished metal buttons. The only unusual thing about the garment was the decorative stitching inside the left cuff and under the collar. It had to be twenty years since he'd last looked at the uniform and that had been a cursory glance. Still, he had to admit it was weathering the years pretty well. He looked again. He was surprised to note that the shoulders of the jacket seemed broad enough to fit him and he was a man of above average size. He didn't know all that much about history, but he vividly remembered diving off the Florida coast around the wreck of the Atocha some years back and noting the almost Lilliputian scale.
So what are you going to do, Zane, toss it in your closet and forget it the way you forgot everything else? You owe my memory more than that. Do the right thing this time.
Okay, now it was getting weird. If he didn't know better, he'd swear Sara Jane was sitting in the car with him. He wondered if he was getting high on dry-cleaning fumes or something. He didn't have time for any of this..
Make time! Wasn't I the only one who ever made time for you?
The truth hurt. Sara Jane was the one person he'd been able to count on when he was growing up, the only one who'd never let him down.
Maybe he was crazy. Maybe she really was contacting him from another plane of existence. Or maybe it was just that guilty conscience of his speaking up. Whatever it was, two hours and six phone calls later, he was on his way down the Jersey shore.
It wasn't possible. He knew that as well as he knew his own name. The odds against it were just too overwhelming. But time and again he'd heard the same thing: "Emilie Crosse is the one you need to see." From Professor Attleman at Rutgers to Deno Grandinetti at the Smithsonian, every historian he contacted all sang the praises of the woman with the old-fashioned name and outdated occupation who just happened to be his ex-wife.
The woman who had broken his heart when she walked out the door one soft spring evening and never looked back.
"You play dirty, Sara Jane," he said as he raced south along the Garden State, "but it's not going to work. I'm dropping off the uniform and then I'm leaving for Tahiti, understand?"
It's a start, dear boy, the familiar voice said with a laugh. It's a start.
Reviewers
Choice Award - Best Historical Time Travel
--Romantic
Times
Tomorrow
and
Always
Crosse
Harbor Time Trave l Trilogy
Book
Two
Barbara
Bretton
Genre:
Time Travel/Romance
Publisher:
Free Spirit Press
ISBN:
9781301018895
ASIN:
B008ELGJ0M
Page
count: 300-320
Word
count: Approx. 80,000
Book
Description:
Timeless
Lovers . . .
Different
Worlds
Shannon
Whitney didn't believe she had a future until Andrew McVie
crash-lands his time-traveling hot-air balloon in her backyard one
summer afternoon and changes her life forever.
He
is a Revolutionary War patriot
She
is an independent modern woman
Their
paths should never have crossed but apparently fate has other plans.
Prologue
Late August, 1776
Andrew McVie sat on the slope behind the lighthouse and waited. He wasn't certain what it was he waited for, but the need in him was so great it could not be denied.
He had awakened near Milltown before dawn that morning, as sharp of eye and clear of head as if he had slept a full night and more. The innkeeper, a good woman named Annie Willis with two sons serving under General Washington, had offered him fresh coffee and bread still warm from the ovens but he found himself unwilling to spend the time.
"A body cannot subsist on patriotism alone." She wrapped a loaf of bread in a clean white cloth then handed it to him. "Think of Mistress Willis when you sup and pray her boys come home to her again."
Patriotism. The very word that had filled his soul with fire not so many years ago held no meaning for him now. Indeed there were times when he felt as if he'd never known what it truly meant to sacrifice everything on the altar of revolution.
They called him a hero. They said he risked his life to go where others feared to tread because he understood that the need of the Colonies far outweighed his own pitiful need for comfort. But they were wrong. All of them. Since he lost Elspeth and David he had been moving through the days both blind and deaf to anything but the pain inside his heart. It was easy to risk everything when you had nothing of value left to lose.
But now even his effectiveness as a spy had been taken from him.
He shifted position on the rock and rested his head in hands. His journey to Long Island to warn General Washington of a plot against his life had resulted in naught save embarrassment. Not only was General Washington not there but the soldiers he'd spoken with had looked at Andrew as if he was daft.
"Surely you have spent too much time in the sun," one had laughed at Andrew's expense. "His Excellency is safely ensconced in Trenton now as we speak."
Later, he had sought solace in a tankard of ale but there was no solace to be found anywhere on God's green earth. The truth was plain as his face in the glass each morning. His time was past. He could see that now. The torch had been passed while he dreamed, passed to men who were younger and stronger than Andrew. Men who were willing to fight the battles Andrew no longer understood.
A bitter laugh rose from the darkness of his soul. Indeed it would be better if he lay dead on the sandy soil of Long Island. He had nothing left to give, nothing left to offer, save a lifetime of regrets. Words he should have said, actions left untaken, the sad procession of mistakes made by a man who should have known better.
The ambitious young lawyer from Boston had been replaced by a patriot who no longer believed in the rebellion other men gave their life's blood to pursue.
None of it mattered any longer. He knew how it would all end. The Patriots would be victorious. The Crown would become an ally. The sun and the moon and the stars would all remain in the heavens. And Andrew McVie would be alone.
He looked up at the lighthouse and shook his head at the absurdity of it all.
He'd never thought to set eyes upon the place again. Indeed he had no understanding how it was he'd come to this particular spot on the New Jersey shore when he had been traveling toward Princeton. All he knew was that the need to be here had overtaken him, driving reason from his brain.
In truth he should be sitting at Rebekah Blakelee's table at this very moment, eating her fine food and considering how it was his life had amounted to so little.
He had neither wife nor child, no home where he could lay down his head and rest his weary heart. The loneliness he had accepted as his punishment ofttimes rose up from the depths of his soul and threatened to choke off the very air he breathed.
Other men had friends to share a summer's night or warm a cold winter's afternoon. Andrew had nothing but regrets and those regrets had grown sharp as a razor's edge these few weeks past, cutting him to the center of his being.
For a little while this summer he'd rediscovered his heart and believed that happiness could be possible for him in this lifetime.
Emilie Crosse had come to him on a morning such as this, in this very spot, spinning a story about a big red balloon that had carried her through the centuries. At first he had thought her mad and vowed to grant her a wide berth but he soon found it impossible to turn a blind eye to her considerable charms.
She intrigued him with her fierce intelligence. She delighted him with her saucy wit. At times her independence enraged him and he found himself longing for the more docile women of his acquaintance but again and again he found himself drawn back to her side.
Andrew was not a man given to flights of fancy. He did not believe in ghosts or portents or a world beyond the one in which he lived. But on the day he met Emilie Crosse in the cellar of the lighthouse he had the unyielding sense that his life would never again be the same.
She was taller and stronger than the good women of his acquaintance and she carried herself with a sense of purpose he envied, but still it was more than those traits that had captured his imagination. It was the world she'd left behind. A world of wonders so miraculous his mortal mind could scarcely comprehend their scope.
She talked of flying through the air inside a shiny metal bird, of men leaving their footprints on the surface of the moon. In her time existed contraptions that could outthink a man of Jefferson's intellect or Franklin's invention. Music could be captured on a shiny brown ribbon and listened to whenever you wished. Indeed entire libraries could be contained on an object the size of a saucer. The poorest of citizens possessed riches beyond Andrew's wildest dreams. Not even Fat George on his English throne could fathom the wonders of which Emilie spoke.
And still she talked of these things as if they were of little value, as if she cared not if she returned to her own time and place.
Not so the man she'd traveled through time with. Zane Grey Rutledge had no use for Andrew's world. He was a man of his own time and Andrew knew Zane would move heaven and earth to return there again with Emilie, to the world where they belonged.
And there was the rub.
To Andrew's everlasting dismay, Emilie had traveled backward through time with the man she'd once been married to. Andrew had watched helplessly as the couple had found their way back to each other, wishing with his entire being that he could be the man she loved. That she could somehow make him whole again in a way that neither rum nor revolution could accomplish.
But it wasn't to be. Emilie and Zane belonged together. In truth Andrew had known it from the start, known it deep in the part of his heart that had died with his wife and child so many years ago. A man might say Emilie and Zane were bound by the past they shared, the world they'd left behind, but Andrew believed a force more powerful than commonality linked their souls together.
Had it been that way with his Elspeth? Andrew could not remember. Late at night, in those moments before sleep claimed him, he saw her beloved face, heard the sound of her voice, felt the satin of her skin beneath his hand, but what she had thought and wished for and needed still danced somewhere beyond his ken.
"Aye," he muttered, wishing for rum or whiskey to blunt the edges of his pain. He had made so many mistakes, directed so little attention to matters of true importance that now he was doomed to go to sleep each night and wake up each morning in a world that held nothing for him but the shadows of what could have been.
His wife and child were dead and buried. The woman who'd captured his imagination loved another man. Not even the battle for independence that raged all around him was enough to ignite the fires of passion inside his cold and weary heart. It seemed he existed to do naught but take up space, counting down the days until he breathed his last.
Mayhap that was his destiny, he thought as he rose to his feet and walked to the edge of the outcropping of rocks that overlooked the water. To live alone there on the rugged island with only his own despair for company, as useless as the lighthouse was without a flame burning from the tower windows to guide the way for other lost and lonely souls.
If the Almighty had other plans for him, Andrew couldn't fathom what they might be.
He stood there at the edge of land for a long time, scanning the horizon for a sign, something - anything - that would show him the wrongness of his thinking, prove to him that there was still a purpose to his existence. But he saw nothing, save an odd cloud cover drifting in from the Atlantic, vertical bands in shades of pewter that moved steadily toward him, casting shadows across the harbor and whipping the still waters into a froth.
The hairs on the back of his neck rose.
"'Tis naught but a storm gathering force," he said into the wind over the mournful call of the gulls. The Jersey coast was known for the unpredictability of its weather. A fortnight ago he'd heard a sailor at the Plumed Rooster weave a tail of a towering waterspout that had toppled his frigate and drowned half his crew. Surely a band of grey clouds was no cause for alarm.
Still the sight tugged hard at his memory, as if it held some significance he had forgotten. Enough, he thought, turning away. He had felt the need to see the lighthouse again and he had done so. Surely there was no reason for him to linger, not with a storm threatening. He would row back to the mainland, mount his horse, then reach Princeton before nightfall. Rebekah, the good wife of Josiah Blakelee, would provide a roof over his head and food for his rumbling belly. Tomorrow morning he would see Emilie and Zane, tell them about this foolish trip to the lighthouse, and--
A spot of crimson caught his eye. He narrowed his eyes, focusing in on the billowy fabric floating atop the choppy waters.
...a big red balloon, Andrew...that's how it happened....
Beads of sweat formed at his temples and across his forehead. He could hear Emilie's voice as clearly as he had on that first day.
Where is that red balloon, Mistress Emilie? he had asked, disbelief dripping from every syllable. Where is the basket?
I don't know, she had answered him simply. We crashed into the water. I assume all was lost.
He looked again but this time he saw nothing but the choppy water. Had the scrap of crimson been his imagination playing tricks upon his addled brain?
"No," he said aloud, gaining strength from the sound of his own voice. "'Tis there. It exists."
The cloud cover was settling itself around the island, obscuring the top of the lighthouse. A damp wind, too chilly for late August, stung his face with salt as a sense of destiny began to build inside his chest.
And the sight of Emilie and Rutledge rowing toward the island from the mainland made his heart soar.
A few minutes later Emilie embraced him. "Andrew! What--?" Her face was taut with anxiety. "How--?"
"I was on my way to the Blakelees'," he said.
"We were on our way to Philadelphia," said Zane.
Andrew and Rutledge clasped hands in the awkward way of men who shared more than either would admit.
"The cloud cover," Andrew said, pointing. "It seems most familiar to me but I cannot say why."
"Oh God...." Emilie's face went pale and she sagged against Rutledge. "Please not now--"
"Why exactly are you here?" Rutledge asked him.
Suddenly he knew beyond doubt. "Because there is no other place for me in this world."
"Let's get out of here," Emilie said, her voice holding a touch of panic. "We can row back to the mainland before the storm hits." She started for the rowboats but Rutledge grabbed her by the wrist.
"Look," he said, pointing beyond the lighthouse.
Andrew turned slowly. His breath caught sharply in his throat as he saw the magnificent sight before him. A large basket danced lightly across the rocks, suspended by ropes attached to a crimson balloon so large it dwarfed even the lighthouse.
"Sweet God in heaven," he whispered in awe. Despite its size the vessel seemed so fragile, so insubstantial, that he wondered how it was it had survived such an amazing journey.
Rutledge swept Emilie into his arms. For the first time Andrew felt not the smallest pang of envy. She belonged to Rutledge and she always would. "This is our chance, Em!" Rutledge spun her around. "You said it wouldn't happen but it did. This is our chance to go back home where we belong."
Andrew heard the squeak of rope against wicker. "It's beginning to rise!"
Emilie pulled away from Rutledge. "This can't be," she murmured. "You just don't understand."
"We don't belong here, Em," Rutledge pleaded. "Let's--"
"Zane--" Her voice broke. "I can't...there are reasons I--" She tossed her embroidered purse to Zane but it fell to the ground at her husband's feet. Gathering up her skirts, she ran toward the lighthouse.
"Stay or go, man!" Andrew bellowed as the winds howled around them. That glittering world they had described was calling to him. "The chance may ne'er come again."
"You're right, McVie." Suddenly Zane smiled, a smile that could mean but one thing. He swept up Emilie's purse and its contents then tossed it to Andrew. "Good luck."
With that Rutledge turned and went to join his wife.
The basket shuddered then rose higher. Andrew had never imagined braving the mysteries of time without his friends from the 20th century but there was no hope for it. He would not turn back now. He was sick unto death of struggle. The happiness others took for granted was not part of the Almighty's plan for him but this grand adventure was and he'd be more than a fool to let this opportunity slip through his fingers. In the glittering world Zane and Emilie described, he could lose himself in the wonder of it all and maybe - just maybe - forget that there'd been a time when he'd wanted more.
He tucked Emilie's fabric purse into the cuff of his leather boot.
"Stay or go," he said again. If only someone could prove that his existence here mattered, that one small thing he said or did lived on. But he was asking for the impossible. Hadn't Emilie said his name vanished from the history books, never to reappear?
Maybe the reason he vanished from the history books was because he vanished from the 18th century entirely. Maybe he had accomplished all he was meant to accomplish in this world and it was time to seek newer worlds to conquer.
And maybe he was crazy as a mad dog baying at the full moon. Did any of it matter a whit in the greater scheme of things? When you'd already lost everything, not even death seemed too much to risk.
The world Andrew McVie had known since birth no longer seemed familiar. This was the reason he'd been drawn to this place, at this moment in time. Moments ago his future had seemed as bleak as the skies overhead. Now, in the blink of an eye, he found himself filled with hope for the first time in years. His life here was over and his new life in the future was about to begin. He prayed God there would be a place for him when he got there.
His dreams were of other times, and to deny hose dreams would be to consign himself to an early grave and so he climbed into the basket just before it floated free of the earth's shackles and headed into the unknown.
The last thing he saw as the balloon rose up into the clouds was Emilie and Zane silhouetted in the window.
They were waving goodbye.
Destiny’s Child
Crosse
Harbor Time Travel Trilogy
Book
Three
Barbara
Bretton
Genre:
Time Travel/Romance
Publisher:
Free Spirit Press
ISBN:
9781301054299
ASIN:
B008ELGLGY
Page
count: 300-320
Word
count: Approx. 80,000
Book
Description:
It's
not every day a woman goes traveling through time
Dakota
Wylie is a wisecracking, unemployed, overweight psychic librarian
from Princeton
Patrick
Devane is an angry, hard-headed spy with a six-year-old daughter who
hears voices
The
only thing they have in common is New Jersey
But
when Dakota leaps from the basket of a hot air balloon to help his
crying child, little does she know that she's leaping into history .
. . and love.
Praise
for the Crosse Harbor Time Travel Trilogy
"SOMEWHERE
IN TIME sweeps readers away into a marvelous world where love is
timeless and dreams come true. Combine this ingenious plot . . . with
humor and sensuality and you have a great read." –Romantic
Times
SOMEWHERE
IN TIME – Reviewers Choice Winner – Best Historical Time Travel
TOMORROW
& ALWAYS - "Bretton is a monumental talent who targets her
audience with intelligence and inspiration." –Affaire de Coeur
"[TOMORROW
& ALWAYS] is an entertaining story." –Booklist
DESTINY'S
CHILD - "Wonderful wit, a feisty heroine, a gifted child, and
great glimpses of friends from the past combine to make magic!"
– Romantic Times
Praise
for USA Today Bestselling Author Barbara Bretton
"A
monumental talent." --Affaire de Coeur
"Very
few romance writers create characters as well-developed as Bretton's.
Her books pull you in and don't let you leave until the last word is
read." --Booklist (starred review)
"One
of today's best women's fiction authors." --The Romance Reader
"Barbara
Bretton is a master at touching readers' hearts." --Romance
Reviews Today
About
the Author:
Barbara
Bretton is the USA Today bestselling, award-winning author of more
than 40 books. She currently has over ten million copies in print
around the world. Her works have been translated into twelve
languages in over twenty countries.
Barbara
has been featured in articles in The New York Times, USA Today, Wall
Street Journal, Romantic Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Herald News,
Home News, Somerset Gazette, among others, and has been interviewed
by Independent Network News Television, appeared on the Susan
Stamberg Show on NPR, and been featured in an interview with Charles
Osgood of WCBS, among others.
Her
awards include both Reviewer's Choice and Career Achievement Awards
from Romantic Times; Gold and Silver certificates from Affaire de
Coeur; the RWA Region 1 Golden Leaf; and several sales awards from
Bookrak. Ms. Bretton was included in a recent edition of Contemporary
Authors.
Barbara
loves to spend as much time as possible in Maine with her husband,
walking the rocky beaches and dreaming up plots for upcoming books.
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