Today we're welcoming Bess McBride, author of ACROSS THE WINDS OF TIME as our guest!
Bess will be giving away a $25 Amazon gift card to one random commenter during her tour, so don't forget to comment!
While on a genealogical research journey through the Midwest,
Molly Hamilton impulsively buys a 100-year-old Victorian house in the middle of
a cornfield, and falls in love with the house’s owner...the original owner,
that is. Can he be a ghost? The handsome, intriguing attorney certainly feels
solid—and somehow her soul knows she has always loved him.
Darius Ferguson has no idea how he has come to present-day Iowa.
The last thing he knew, the year was 1880, and he had just buried his fiancée,
who happens to look exactly like Molly. He cannot separate the two women in his
heart—to him, they are one.
In spite of being drawn to him, Molly thinks Darius is unhinged.
Darius wonders if he has joined his fiancée in purgatory. If time travel is
possible, will love be enough to build a future together?
EXCERPT:
“Molly, wait!”
I froze in place for a moment. It
was definitely a man under the tree though I couldn’t see his face...and he
knew my name.
“Do I know you?” I called in an
unsteady voice. It seemed, though, as if
my words were taken by the wind. Who was
this man? And how did he know my
name?
He moved away from the tree with a tentative step. His clothing was formal—a dark suit and white
shirt—as if he had just been to a funeral.
I hadn’t remembered seeing a canopy for a funeral on the grounds, but I
wasn’t about to take my eyes off the stranger for one instant to confirm that
suspicion.
I thought I saw a flash of white teeth from under his dark mustache, but
he was still some distance away. Golden
highlights in his chestnut hair caught the sunlight, and my mouth dropped open. He was undoubtedly one of the most handsome
men I had ever seen in my life. My
stomach rolled over at the sight of him, though not with admiration of his good
looks. Cold sweat broke out on my forehead,
and I put my hand to my mouth as if to hold back the morning’s breakfast...if
I’d had any.
For here—in the flesh—was the man of my dreams. Not just any dreams. More specifically, my dreams of the previous
evening. Yet I couldn’t for the life of
me remember ever seeing him before until this moment.
“Be careful what you wish for,” I muttered behind the hand that covered
my face.
“Molly, don’t be afraid. I can see that you are. I don’t want to frighten you.” He took another step forward and held his
hands up palms out...as if to show me he wasn’t armed, I thought hysterically,
or to calm me down. Either way, it
wasn’t working.
Bess McBride made her first serious writing attempt when she was 14. She
shut herself up in her bedroom one summer while obsessively working on a time
travel/pirate novel set in the beloved Caribbean of her youth, but she wasn't
able to hammer it out on a manual typewriter (oh yeah, she's that old) before
it was time to go back to school. The draft of that novel has long since
disappeared, but the story is still simmering within, and she will finish the
adventure one day soon.
Bess was born in Aruba to American parents and lived in Venezuela until
her family returned to the United States when she was 12. She couldn't fight
the global travel bug within and joined the U.S. Air Force at 18 to "see
the world." After 21 wonderful and fulfilling years traveling the world
and gaining one beautiful daughter, she pursued her dream of finally getting a
college education. With a license in mental health therapy, she worked with
veterans and continues to work on behalf of veterans. She writes romantic suspense,
contemporary, light paranormal/fantasy and time travel romances and currently
has eight novels published. She can be contacted through her web site at
http://www.bessmcbride.com.
Links:
www.bessmcbride.com
http://willtravelforromance.blogspot.com/
Don't forget: Bess will be giving away a $25 Amazon gift card to one random commenter during the tour.
Follow her tour and comment. The more you comment, the better your chance of winning. The tour dates can be found here.
7 comments:
I sense a tragic love story in the air! Good luck with Across the Winds of Time, Bess. I love stories about love across time.
Thanks for stopping by, Bess.
Best of luck with your book. It looks great!
Thanks so much for hosting me today, JB and Jennifer. This book blast is a great way to meet fellow authors and readers, and to read new book/author/reader blogs. :-) Thanks for your good wishes, JB.
No tragedy, Jai! My publisher doesn't allow unhappy endings, and I wouldn't write a tragic ending, not even for all the tears in the world. I've recently submitted another time travel set in 1902 England and Wales, so keep your fingers crossed that my publisher accepts it!
Talk soon.
Bess McBride
I love Victorian houses, I the premise for this book!
I love anything even vaguely time-trippy - so this sounds great. Best of luck with the book, Bess!
I know you do, Carin!! I'm getting to know you. :-) Thanks for stopping by JB and Jennifer's blog.
Bess
Thank you, Jennifer. This is a time travel, though some readers think it is a ghost story. :-) I've done one of those as well!
Bess
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