Christmas Eve Promise: Time Travel Novel by Elyse Douglas: Tour Kickoff, Guest Post, Giveaway

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Christmas Eve Promise: Time Travel Novel (Christmas Eve Series, Book 4) by Elyse Douglas

Publisher: Broadback (September, 2020)
Category: Time Travel, Historical Fiction, Romance, Christmas
Tour dates: September-November, 2020
ISBN:
Available in Print and ebook, 405 pages

Description Christmas Eve Promise: Time Travel Novel by Elyse Douglas

Eve and baby Colleen are traveling to Ohio for the Christmas holidays to spend time with Eve’s parents.

After a few days in Ohio, they all plan to fly to Florida in Eve’s father’s private airplane. Patrick will meet them there after he completes exams for his forensic psychology degree.

Nothing goes as planned. The day Patrick is to leave for Florida, he receives a shocking telephone call from one of Eve’s cousins. Sobbing, she tells him a terrible tragedy has occurred. It stuns him and shakes him to his heart’s core.

His life shattered, Patrick knows he has but one chance: 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, and Patrick is hurled back to a time where he must confront a strange, unfamiliar world and learn why the lantern transported him there.

When Patrick comes face-to-face with a mysterious, beautiful woman who looks and acts like Eve, and whose name is Eve, Patrick is haunted.

He recalls the promise he and Eve had made to each other on Christmas Eve the previous year—no matter what happens; no matter if they’re separated; no matter what time or place they find themselves in; no matter what obstacles they must face, they will always find each other, help each other, and love each other for all time.

The Christmas Eve Promise is a journey about the enduring promise of hope and the infinite, unbreakable bonds of love.

Praise Christmas Eve Series by Elyse Douglas

“The Christmas Eve Letter is a beautiful, poignant story. It is well written and will have you turning the pages eagerly.
All of the characters are well thought out, and believably written, together with the well-constructed scenery, that has you feeling as if you yourself have just stepped into the past.
The story is unique and moving. It will hold you long after you turn the last page. A perfect Christmas tale of love and hope.”-Whispering Stories

“This book is the perfect vehicle for a movie, and I can only hope that there will be more in the series. This novel is truly as close to perfection as the reader could imagine! 5 Stars!”–My Devotional Thoughts Blog and Reviews

“I enjoyed the new characters, an update on characters from the first book, and the possibility for more books. If you enjoy time travel-themed novels you will love these books!”–StoreyBook Reviews

“I am most impressed that this book did so well as a stand-alone novel. Kudos to the author! If you are looking for a good Christmas book with time travel, give this a go!”–Carole’s Bookshelves

“I love this whole story, and I especially love Patrick and Eve’s romance and all of the adventures that they go on together. Eve is exactly my kind of character. I still can’t stop thinking about the feeling that it gave me and the arc that the characters went on. Everyone really developed a lot in this story and it was so rewarding as a long-time reader to watch that happen. It feels like every new book in this series just keeps getting better and better and I love these characters more and more. Every time a new one comes out I feel like a kid on Christmas morning.
The Christmas Eve Secret is my favorite in the series so far, but if you have not read the first two books I would recommend doing that as soon as possible! If you enjoy romance, time travel, mystery and great writing, I promise that you won’t regret dipping a toe into this series.”–Cuzinlogic

Guest Post Christmas Eve Promise: Time Travel Novel by Elyse Douglas

Stop Reading Fiction! by Elyse Douglas

Miss Harriet Penny was my high school history teacher sophomore year. She was a thin, tall woman with a whip-smart tongue, a perspicacious mind and the sharp nose and challenging, flinty eyes of a gunslinger. Even the tight bun on the very top of her head, which she wore relentlessly like a corporate brand, dared you to cross her.

In case you missed it, I was scared to death of her.

One morning, before class had officially commenced, Miss Penny passed my desk and saw me reading Silas Marner by George Eliot.

“Why are you reading that trash?” she asked, her eyes narrowing on me.

I managed to force out a mouse-like squeak. “Trash? But it’s George Eliot.”

“I know who wrote it,” she snapped. “I’ve read it. And it’s trash, just like most fiction is trash. It’s filled with lies, people who never lived, wishful thinking and errant philosophies” (I think she said “errant”, but she may have said, “perverted.”)

I thought maybe she was just putting me on; using the shock treatment she often used on us to make a historic point. For instance, she once said that John Adams should have shot Thomas Jefferson in 1800 for the outright slanderous attacks he made on John during the campaign for Presidency.

“I have to read this for English class,” I added, apologetically.

She barked out a cold laugh. “Oh, yes, of course you do. Well, let me give you a little life tip, young lady. Read what you must when you’re in school, but when you’re out, stop reading fiction! Instead, read biographies and history, memoirs of the true statesmen, and read Abigail Adams’ letters. You will learn more and flourish more as a woman than you ever will by reading such sentimental nonsense as Silas Marner or To Kill a Mockingbird!”

Fortunately, she didn’t know that, at that very moment, anxiously hiding in my patent leather purse, was a dog-eared paperback of Jacqueline Susann’s novel Once is Not Enough. Had Miss Penny seen that, she surely would have gone into apoplectic shock.

I pondered what Miss Penny had said for a couple of hours, and the more I thought about it, the more outraged I became. I went to the library and searched the shelves for writers who wrote fiction. I found some interesting quotes, which I scribbled down and still have in a spiral-bound notebook which I keep in a back closet.

“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson

“That’s what fiction is for. It’s for getting at the truth when the truth isn’t sufficient for the truth.” ―Tim O’Brien

“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.” ―Albert Camus

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”—Stephen King

“Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.”—Simone Weil

Some days later, I arrived early to Miss Penny’s class. She was sitting at her desk, studying me. I grew self-conscious, not meeting her eyes.

She said, “What did you learn?”

I cleared my throat and said something like, “I’m not sure what you mean…”

“I saw you in the library the other day. What did you learn about reading fiction?”

I grew a bit more bold, only because I saw the hint of a smile crease Miss Penny’s lips.

I said, “Albert Camus said, ‘Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.’”

Miss Penny stared hard at me. “So I was right. Fiction is a lie that only the truth can tell.”

Copyright © 2020 Elyse Douglas

About Elyse Douglas

Elyse Douglas is the pen name for the married writing team Elyse Parmentier and Douglas Pennington. Elyse grew up near the sea, roaming the beaches, reading and writing stories and poetry, receiving a master’s degree in English Literature. She has enjoyed careers as an English teacher, an actress and a speech-language pathologist.

Douglas has worked as a graphic designer, a corporate manager and an equities trader. He attended the Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music and played the piano professionally for many years.

Website: www.elysedouglas.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/douglaselyse
Facebook: www.facebook.com/elyse.authorsdouglas

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