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After intensive studying of Quantum jumping, Jayden White embarks on a journey one hundred and twenty years in the past for two reasons—to aid her sister’s financial crisis and to meet the man she’s come to know through an old family diary. The night Levi Grimshaw asks his long time sweetheart to marry him he arrives home to discover a strange young woman sleeping in front of his fireplace—trouble is she’s not a stranger to his heart.
(Pages 67) Hot
(Time Travel)
Excerpt:
She was back in a few minutes and headed straight to her coffee cup.
He leaned a hip against the sink. “Is your husband due back today?”
Settling on a chair, she frowned. “I’m not married. Yet.”
His stomach flipped. The eeriness he’d experienced yesterday hung on his shoulders like a winter coat. “Do you need a ride to Russell Springs? I could hitch up the wagon. It’s only about half an hour from here.”
“I know. Russell Springs hasn’t changed much the past century.”
“Century? Russell Springs was founded twenty years ago. It was the main stage stop for the Butterfield Overland Dispatch—”
“I know,” she interrupted. “The stage line ran through Indian Territory and connected the gold mines of Colorado with Fort Riley. That is until the Kansas Pacific Railroad was built in the eighteen seventies. The town itself was named for the natural springs in the area.”
His spine stiffened. “What exactly do you want, Miss White?”
She met his gaze eye for eye, not showing a hint of apprehension. “I’ll tell you, Levi, but perhaps you should sit down first.”
“No, I’m fine right here.”
She stood and began to lift her skirt. His eye sockets stretched, making him blink. Displaying her underclothes for the world to see, she pulled something out. Since when did petticoats have pockets? Perhaps they all did, and he just didn’t know it. The skirt fell back in place, and she moved forward, handing him the object.
A wooden frame held a picture. His breath stalled. “That’s you,” he choked, “and me.”
