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June's Theme: On The Road Again (Travel/Time Travel)Step back in time to 1927 when life was simpler and love was sweet.
THE VIOLIN
(time travel/paranormal novel)
by Sarah J. McNeal
Can the heart live inside a violin case?
Can a message reach across time?
Genevieve Beaumont is
haunted by dreams of a drowning man she is helpless to save. When she buys a violin
and discovers news clippings and pictures of its owner who died from downing
inside the case, she realizes he is the man in her dreams.
She travels to the little
town where he died 90 years before to investigate who he was and how he came to
drown that day. Little does she know how her own life will be tangled in the
mystery…until she steps through the threshold of time to 1927.
Excerpt:
She heard him take in a slow breath before he spoke to her
in a more relaxed, quiet tone. "I beg your pardon, miss, I didn't mean to
curse. What's your name?" The younger man’s voice soothed her as he knelt
beside the couch where she lay. He wrung out a cloth in the bowl of water
beside his knee, folded it, and applied it to Genevieve's brow.
"My name is Genevieve Beaumont. I was just standing at
the window and now…I'm here." She lifted a shaky hand to her brow.
"My head is pounding."
"You bumped your head when you fainted. Is that a
French name?" He lifted a quizzical
brow and smiled.
She lifted her eyes and got a good, close-up look at him
then. Her heart almost stopped beating in her chest. She sucked in a deep
breath. What was happening to her? How could any of this be possible? The man
holding the cool cloth to her head was the man in the pictures she found in the
violin case!
She would not have guessed he had auburn hair, or that his
eyes were such a vivid, bottle green. He wore a collarless, khaki shirt with
the sleeves rolled up and suspenders instead of a belt held up his tan, canvas
trousers. Oh, but he was handsome—so much more than his pictures ever allowed.
She didn't have time to admire the young man's good looks because her mind
swirled round and round with the unfathomable implications of her situation.
Excerpt 2:
The music began again and the carousel began to move. Slowly, Genevieve’s horse began its first
ascent. Her dress rose above her knees
in the breeze created by the movement but she didn’t care. She felt free and filled with golden
happiness.
John stood watching her with his hand clasped gently,
sensuously around her ankle. When her
horse descended, John let his hand slide up to her knee. He gazed at her in that way he had earlier
that day when she met him on the road.
His eyes were dark green and filled with mystery and something that looked
like longing. He bent his head and
kissed her knee tenderly just as he had in her dream. The electrifying feel of his full mouth on
her sensitive flesh sent heat to her very core.
She shook her head as the moment of déjà vu passed over her.
With his hand still resting on her knee, John lifted his
head and kept his eyes pinned to hers as she ascended once again. As her horse began to lower her toward him,
John reached up and clasped the back of her head to pull her toward him. She leaned forward and met his kiss with a
racing heart. His kiss told her more
than his words ever could that he was falling in love with her. It was bittersweet knowledge to know it, to
feel it. They had so little time left.
“This was my dream,” she said barely audible over the music.
“I know.” He ran his hand back down her leg to her
ankle and kissed her on the lips once again…
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Until then,
Diverse
stories filled with heart
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