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The precis is simply this: love will find a way no matter how much it must bend time and space to accomplish its purposes.
Patrick and Eve are deeply in love in America of the ’20s. The 2020s. They found each other through the actions of a device theorized and then developed by Nikolai Tesla that would allow people to travel in time to explore—and affect—the past. All it happiness and joy on Christmas Eve. 1884 and 2019 America meet beneath a Christmas tree, baby in the crib asleep, champagne flutes filled, and nothing but happiness ahead for them
And then soon after they are separated not by time and space or even by broken love, but by the vicissitudes of life that seem to take love from us and then laugh at our pain and grief.
And herein lies the story: Can Patrick go back in time somehow using the spark of time travel invented by Tesla? Somehow not only is time and space bent to take him back, but love focuses his own heart into finding the right moment in the past to explore, to inquire about his purpose, to once again find love—and to be a powerful actor upon the lives of his contemporaries.
Patrick and Eve are separated now by more than just time and space, and yet Patrick finds a soulmate in the past, with whom he conspires to rescue the daughter he never had and in the process establish that even in a past mutually separate from both Eve and Patrick, they can still find their soul mates and not only change the future, but change themselves in the process.
It is a satisfying story with comfortable characters—that is, the people feel very real. Their flaws are up front and center, as well as their strengths and even their beauty of purpose and desire. It is a romance, and so it has all the elements of a satisfying tale of hearts united—but with the added fillup of reaching across the void and silence of the universe that works to isolate us.
Because love will find a way, whether it is to rescue a child in distress or to find a distant, lost partner.
This is Book 4 of the series, and while I have not read the previous books, there is just enough backstory scattered throughout the book that the reader is able to build the paradoxical worlds of Patrick and Even.
For it seems that not only will love find a way to travel through all space and time, it will also bend the “rules” of the universe that seem to block us from changing the past—and thereby changing the future.
Is such time travel possible? I don’t know. But I hope that if it is true, then it will be possible only when focused by and purpose through love.
This book is a satisfying read, a wonderful mashup of sci-fi and romance, with definite characters, motives, and actions. If you’re willing to suspend your disbelief just a tiny bit, you will find this book to be a unique way to tell the story that we always love to hear.
Publisher: Broadback (September, 2020)
Category: Time Travel, Historical Fiction, Romance, Christmas
ISBN: 979-8671702989 (print)
ASIN: B08GCZ9ZVF (Kindle)
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I am so glad you enjoyed ‘The Christmas Eve Promise’!