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Blurb:
A curse sends Astrid on a journey to ancient lands. She meets deceit and betrayal searching for true love and to break the curse. The search begins in Egypt. When she touches an ancient Egyptian necklace she is hurtled through time into the turbulent life of another woman. She discovers the words spoken in anger holding her spirit captive. Seven more times she finds a piece of jewelry and returns to a distant past. In each of these lives she encounters and falls in love with a man who seems to be someone recently met in her present as do the enemy man and woman. The heat between Astrid and Duncan is instant and becomes incandescent. Her dislike of two characters grows. Eight realms await her. Eight chances break the curse holding her spellbound and to end the cycle of past betrayals and find love. Eight chances to foil the evil man and woman who follow her and Duncan from era to era.
Excerpt:
In her rush to reach the ringing telephone, Astrid Logan
nearly sprawled on the suitcases she'd left in the apartment hallway. She
grabbed the receiver on the seventh ring. A deep voice spoke her name and her
heart thudded in her chest. "Clive?" Had something happened to her
father? Was there a problem at Antiquities?
"Been trying to reach you for hours. Where have you
been?"
Astrid sucked in a breath. "Dad knows how to reach me
at school." She sank to the floor. "What's wrong with him?"
"He's had a stroke."
"How is he?"
"Doctor believes he'll recover completely, but he'll
need time in rehab."
"When did this happen and where?"
"This morning at the gallery. We were discussing the
placement of several new pieces. He groaned and collapsed. Ambulance arrived
maybe fifteen minutes later."
Astrid frowned. What was he holding back? Her father liked
and trusted his younger assistant, but for no reason she could discover, Clive
had always made her edgy. "Did they do tests?"
"CAT Scan. Then they gave him some kind of special IV.
Guess this will make you change your summer plans."
"Why should it?" Clive had been her father's
assistant at the gallery for a year and a half. He knew she spent every summer
at Antiquities.
"Then you're really not coming."
"What are you talking about? I had planned to drive
down tomorrow." Since she'd turned twelve, she'd spent every summer at the
shop with her dad. In sixteen years, she knew as much about the shop as her
father.
"Thought your dad said you wouldn't be here. Never
mind. It's just ... I was going to move into his apartment."
"Why?"
"To keep an eye on the gallery."
Astrid frowned. That didn't make sense. The thirty-year-old
playboy had an expensive co-op on the river. "Isn't there a sophisticated
alarm system?"
"Alarms can be by-passed."
"Are there problems?"
"In a way. A few pieces have gone missing and your dad
won't hear of calling the police."
"I see." She didn't, but once she was sure her
father was recovering, she intended to check.
"When are you coming?"
4 comments:
An interesting set-up!
Naughty Netherworld Press
Sounds intriguing!
Nice cover. Alarms can be by-passed- that opens questions.
Oh! I like the sound of this mystery!
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