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On a serene night in 1953, Sally Mason, a dedicated wife and mother of two, drives a twisting road on her way home from night school. Suddenly, a mysterious bluish-white light descends over the road. Terrified, Sally slams on the brakes. After a flash of bright light nearly blinds her, she passes out, awakening to the persistent knock of a police officer on her car window. When she sees the officer and remembers her frightening experience, she screams and faints, and is rushed to the hospital.

Thirty-year-old Eve Sharland is browsing a Pennsylvania antique store when she discovers an old brass lantern tucked away on a shelf. She picks it up and sees something behind one of the sooty glass panes. To her surprise, she finds an unopened letter stuck inside. The letter is postmarked December 24, 1885, and it is addressed to Evelyn Sharland in New York City. Eve gasps and drops the letter. That's her name!

When husband and wife Eve and Patrick Gantly discover a shocking secret from Patrick's past, they make the difficult decision to use the old lantern once again to return to 1885. They hope to save his child from a tragic future. Although they try to plan for every possible contingency, something goes wrong. They lose each other and end up in a different time! Nothing goes as planned. They struggle to save Patrick's daughter from certain death, even as they search for the lost lantern that will return them to their own time.

A story of love, loss, and the mysterious dance with destiny... in a parallel reality.Following a devastating tornado that ravages her hometown and kills her family, 30-year-old Harper Close returns to confront the aftermath and bury her parents and brother. As she prepares to depart the town, another storm strikes, hurling her into a parallel reality. Suddenly, she finds herself back in her hometown, a week before the fatal tornado is set to strike. In this alternate reality, Harper discovers unsettling differences, and when she approaches her family, they’re suspicious and angry, ...

Eve and Patrick Gantly are living a normal life in 2019 New York, preparing to celebrate the Christmas season. To their delight, Eve is three months pregnant. Despite their happiness, Eve is having premonitions that something dreadful is about to occur. Concerned about the future and the safety of their child, she insists that they destroy the time-travel lantern.

In 1944 London, Anne Billings is off to meet Ken, a dashing American bomber pilot, when she and her four-year-old son, Tommy, get caught in an air raid. Anne clutches Tommy's hand as they run for the nearest shelter. In a terrifying blast, Tommy is swept away, and Anne is blown into the air...landing, near death, in New York's Central Park. When she awakens in the hospital, she has no memory. It is 2008. The handsome Dr. Jon Miles falls for the mysterious Anne, and he attempts to help her as she begins to remember her true identity.

In 1968, Charlotte Vance was one of the few women employed by the National Security Agency in Washington, D.C. She put in long hours and was working when a fire started in her home. Her daughters and husband were killed. For 50 years, she has felt responsible for their deaths. In 2018, when a former colleague from the NSA mentions a top secret government agency that is experimenting with time travel, she decides to apply.

In November 2021, Eve and Patrick grow uneasy when they read an article about the arrest of a strange, disoriented woman on the Lower East Side. Based on the descriptions of her clothing and behavior, Eve is sure the woman has time traveled. She convinces Patrick they must help the woman, as others had helped them during their time travel journeys.

The day Patrick is to leave for Florida to meet up with Eve and baby Colleen for Christmas, he receives a shocking telephone call from one of Eve's cousins. Sobbing, she tells him a terrible tragedy has occurred. His life shattered, Patrick knows he must use the time travel lantern to return to the past in order to prevent the current tragedy. But once again, the time travel lantern has a mind of its own....

Rita Randall, a celebrated film noir actress in 1948, leaves LA after a fatal confrontation. Clint West is a best-selling author in 2019, struggling to move on after the death of his wife. Rita and Clint travel to Long Island, New York and occupy the same beach house - 71 years apart. When Rita appears in the background of Clint’s recent cell phone photos, he’s mystified. When Clint appears in Rita’s photos, she’s troubled and confused. Clint investigates and learns about secret time travel experiments that were conducted in the area during the 1940s.

ONE MINUTE, SINGER ROXIE RAINES is in a 2019 West Village nightclub and the next, she’s traveled back in time to New York’s raucous Roaring Twenties! Her modern sound captivates an eager audience and she’s falling in love with a handsome detective, but can her out-of-time dream life truly last? Struggling West Village singer Roxie Raines stumbles through a secret basement doorway in 2019, and time-slips back to New York’s raucous Roaring Twenties. While she dazzles the speakeasy crowds with her “modern sound,” she gets trapped in the dangerous web of Frankie Shay, an evil club ...

A Lost Diary Leads to a New Beginning.Alice is an entrepreneur who owns a gift shop. Her business is failing, and she’s struggling with doubts about her upcoming marriage on Christmas Day in Pennsylvania. Despite her misgivings, she follows the plan to meet her fiancé six days before the wedding. Alice leaves New York and, as night descends, she gets lost in a violent snowstorm. A man darts out in front of her and she barely misses him. The mysterious stranger directs her to a nearby B&B. In a bookshelf in her room, Alice discovers an old diary wedged behind a row of books, and she ...

"Christmas Ever After" is a modern fairy tale adventure, in which improbable events lead to a happy ending. Willowbury is a quiet New England town, especially festive and picturesque during the Christmas season. Jennifer Taylor owns and operates a shop called Cards N’ Stuff. The death of her fiancé, on Christmas Eve the year before, has left her bitter and angry. A few days before Christmas, a mysterious woman named Mrs. Wintergreen stops by Jennifer’s shop and offers Jennifer the gift of an adventure. At first, Jennifer refuses. After a violent snow storm destroys her shop, Jennifer ...

BETRAYED is a heart-racing story that can be consumed in a few quick hours.While on their Caribbean honeymoon, Erika’s wealthy husband disappears. Theirs had been a whirlwind romance, and much of Richard’s life remains a mystery to Erika. While she’s struggling to find out what happened to him, two men burst into her room, drug her and search the villa. The next morning, the local police arrive and begin to search the island for Richard. When Erika meets the handsome and mysterious shadow soldier, Adam Caine, she learns the ugly truth about her husband. She falls for Adam, while ...

FRANTIC is a fast, double-shot-of-espresso read. Its heart-racing story can be consumed in a few quick hours.Jenny’s life is shattered when her Special Ops husband is killed. To escape the pain, she falls into a dangerous cycle of self-destruction. One terrible night, she kills a violent man in self-defense. Jenny runs off into the unknown, desperate to turn her life around. That’s when the handsome cop, Lieutenant Jon Dowling, appears. Her new life is threatened by secrets from the past -- and she must fight for her life.

After her best friend dies in a plane crash, Keri discovers that she had a secret lover — Keri sets out to find him. When Keri finally reaches Ryan, could she unexpectedly find a new chance at happiness? After her best friend and her husband are killed in a private airplane crash, Keri finds some of her friend’s personal effects, one of which is a diary. When Keri reads it, she discovers her friend had been secretly in love with another man, a soldier. Keri knew nothing about the relationship, even though she and her friend were as close as sisters. Determined to find the secret lover, ...

Get ready for the trip of a lifetime! Like any other waitress, Dina Lee has big dreams. She wants a new life, a better life—she wants romantic adventure, especially since her last two relationships were disasters. When, out of the blue, she receives an anonymous gift to travel first class to three of the most exciting and exotic cities in the world during the Christmas season, she is stunned, conflicted, and skeptical. Who would give her such a gift? What would they want in return? Is it too good to be true? Dina is assured by her benefactor’s representative that it is indeed true and ...

A hot summer beach— A marriage gone wrong— Daring eyes and daring love— Betrayed by a secret passion. A fast-paced novel that sparkles with passion, mystery and suspense. A perfect summer read, or cozy-by-the-fire adventure. —Emma Sheffington Kim feels trapped in a loveless marriage to a jealous, wealthy older man. He blames her for crippling him in an auto accident that he himself caused. Kim strives to make the marriage work, despite her husband’s blame, verbal abuse, and bitterness. When she meets a wickedly handsome man on the beach, she fights not to want him, not to want a ...

Twenty years disappear, and it is as if they are back in high school with all its insecurities, romance and dreams. When 38-year old Trudie Parks learns that her high school drama teacher is seriously ill, she immediately contacts her two best friends in high school, Kristen and Mary Ann. Together, they’d been known as “The Christmas Girls.” They’d produced and starred in the annual high school Christmas show, which their teacher, Mrs. Childs, had directed. Determined to show their love for Mrs. Childs, they plan a 20-year reunion to recreate the Christmas show for her. What they ...

“Christmas for Juliet” is a romantic drama with a touch of mystery. After Juliet Sinclair divorces her unfaithful husband, she expects to pick up the pieces of her life and move on. The unexpected death of her father forces a change. She quits her job and moves back to Ohio, determined to investigate the loss of a substantial amount of money, which places her father’s character in question. When she learns of a mysterious woman who had close ties with him, she begins to doubt the perfect father she’d always known. While on her journey to find the truth, Juliet is involved in a ...