Hi everyone!
I thought I'd toss out an excerpt from my upcoming time travel with Twilight Fantasies Publications, coming out May 2nd, 2007. I've always loved time travels, and I've been fascinated with the California Gold Rush since I was a child growing up in Northern California.
Luckily, the area I live in now was smack-dab in the middle of all of the action, and there is tons of history here from that era... history that I've physically touched and read. Wow! The thrill of holding something in your hands that was *handwritten* by someone famous in history... it's indescribable.
In my research for this book, I've learned so much about the history of where I live that I can eagerly pass on to my children and incorporate into my books for my readers.
So come along with me on my journey of discovery -- where my hero discovers that history is more than just dusty old books in the library. He finds that history is full of passionate love, misery, decisions that have life-or-death consequences, and real people who will live in your heart forever.
~ Cassidy McKay ~
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BLURB:
David Chesney believes in ghosts. He's seen them...and they've seen him.
When a beautiful ghost begs him to help save her child, David falls back in time to the California Gold Rush, where a life was worth less than a shiny gold nugget, and tossed away even more rapidly. As he meets the woman who has intrigued him all of his life, in her lifetime, he finds that love is more precious than gold, even when her future is in his past.
Can he change the future to save the woman he's fallen in love with from heartbreak? More importantly... should he?
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UNEDITED EXCERPT:
Sometimes in September
When the leaves are turning color
The wind blows softly through the branches
Like the memories of yesterday
Sometimes in September
By the stream in the woods
The water trickles through the rocks
Like yesterday's wishes tossed away
Sometimes in September
The winds carry their secrets
Away to far off lands
Like the dreams of tomorrow
And sometimes, in September
In the streambed near the trees
The memories of another time
Leave a passage to a dream
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Prologue
Don't go near the ruins, boy.
But why not, Daddy?
There are restless things there, David.
David Chesney swerved to avoid hitting the startled deer standing in the road. Distractions were dangerous on these winding mountain roads…especially distractions of childhood memories better left buried.
Finally—he was coming home. Never mind the thirteen places he'd lived since moving from here when he was ten. Nor the myriad of jobs he'd held doing anything and everything. He was a wanderer and what some people called a Jack of all Trades. But there had always been only one place he'd called home: the California Gold Country. Time didn't matter, and the people and places in between were superfluous.
Gripping the steering wheel in tense anticipation, he turned down the road to his childhood home. The autumn breeze blew in through his open window, ruffling his hair.
It's smaller.
The trees still towered over the rutted dirt road, and navigating around the ever-present potholes took David's full attention. He slowed, pulling over to park in front of a rusted gate with an equally rusty lock. It creaked open in jerks and starts, as if welcoming him home rather reluctantly.
Were the ruins still there?
The thought had recurred frequently during the settling of his grandfather's estate. He'd recently inherited the house his family had once shared with Grandpa Chesney...back when times were bad and jobs were scarce. He'd been ten.
While they'd gone their separate ways when David's parents were in better financial shape, Grandpa's house still had that special feeling of home that the many moves since had lacked.
He wondered if she was still waiting for him; the transparent lady with the sad eyes who'd asked him to help her. But what could a ten-year old boy do? Especially since he was trespassing on the old ruins he'd been repeatedly warned away from.
There are restless things there, David.
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Coming to Twilight Fantasies Publications on May 2, 2007!
http://www.twilightfantasiespublications.com
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Romance Author Cassidy McKay
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