Joan Baez Smith - Baezy for short - lives in the year 2101 in a place called Unity. Technology has eradicated disease and prolonged the human life span. Meals are optimized for nutrition, and everyone's schedule includes the perfect amount of exercise, education, socializing, and leisure. For her birthday this year, Baezy's mother has arranged… Continue reading Anywhen by Beth Duke
Cecily Bridge-Davis is a college professor who lives in Nashville with her husband and two sons. When she learns that she inherited a plot of land from her father’s family, she travels to Charlottesville, VA to check out the property, in hopes of selling it. When she arrives, she discovers several cabins, an apple orchard, and the original Bridge family house. Long abandoned, she explores the property and finds some interesting items. The Bridge family records dating back to the late 1700s, a map marking hidden survival kits among the land, and the (mysterious) Bridge Family Rules. Confused and curious, Cecily begins researching her family history. She discovers the Bridge Family Curse: one offspring from each Bridge family unit in each generation suddenly vanishes before the age of 27 and falls back in time. Once a child in that unit falls, the remaining siblings are safe. Once Cecily learns this, she realizes that she herself will fall soon, being only 26 years old. While she doesn’t now where the curse originated or how to break it, she wonders if any of her ancestors have the power to do so. So she takes the unadvisable risk to try to change the past and free her family. The Fallen Fruit by Shawntelle Madison is a time travel historical fiction novel that follows five generations of Bridge women as they experience inevitable loss and prepare for uncertain futures.
Amelia Epoch is a thirty-something HR Assistant in New York City, grappling with elusive professional ambitions of being an interior designer. She’s also in a relationship with a handsome doctor, Jack, who travels for long periods of time for Doctors Without Borders. When she gets a strange call from a lawyer informing her that she has an inheritance to claim, she believes it to be a hoax. But sure enough, it turns out that the inheritance is legit. Thanks to the mysterious author Franklin Dunne, Amelia is now the proud owner of a brownstone in Brooklyn and a handsome sum of money. While inspecting her new property, she finds an antique watch behind one of the bricks in the fireplace. One day, she decides to put it on and switch to the correct date – only to be thrust 100 years in the past. And Franklin is the current occupant of said brownstone. And while he generously offers to help her figure out how to return to her time, she can’t help but find herself attracted to Franklin and genuinely enjoying her time with him. The Time Turner by Clare Solly is a time travel romance in which Amelia must decide which path she wants to follow – her stable life and relationship in the present, or with the man she is falling hopelessly in love with in the past? Read more
