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Christmas Eve Promise: Time Travel Novel by Elyse DouglasChristmas 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
The Christmas Eve Promise

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.

My Thoughts Christmas Eve Promise by Elyse Douglas


If you have been reading my reviews for a while, you probably noticed that I love Elyse Douglas novels.  They are a married couple who release many novels each year.  They are a power couple of literature.  I have not read a book that they have written that I have not loved.  Their new novel, ‘The Christmas Eve Promise’ is no exception!

Book 4 of the ‘Christmas Eve’ series, ‘The Christmas Eve Promise’, starts out with a promise that Patrick and his wife give each other. 

“I want both of us to promise that no matter what happens to us; no matter if we’re separated; no matter what time or place we find ourselves in; no matter what obstacles we face, we will always find each other, help each other and love each other, for all time.”

This is a promise that Patrick will soon need to find a way to keep and it won’t be easy.  It means that he will need to light the time travel lamp again.  He has no control over what year if will bring him back to.  This time it ends up being 1925.  Why it brought him all the way back to 1925, he has no clue.  He really was hoping to just go back a few days or even a week.

While in 1925 Patrick gets reacquainted with a character from the previous books and meets all kinds of new quirky and some dangerous characters.  He also meets a woman who looks just like his wife, Eve.  Is she a relation to Eve?  Is she the link to what he is looking for?

I love reading about the roaring 20’s and the time of prohibition, not to mention woman only got the right to vote only 5 short years before!  The characters, the times, place, and landscape of 1920’s New York all came to life in the expert writing style of Elyse Douglas.  The Douglas’s have a way of writing that makes you feel like your have time traveled and are interacting with the characters and experiencing everything they experience.

I cannot recommend this series highly enough.  Though each book can be read apart from the others, I do recommend you read the entire series in order to experience the full story. Elyse Douglas has left me begging for more!  Please continue the series, pretty please!  I give it a big five stars!

I received the eBook for my honest opinion.

About Elyse DouglasChristmas Eve Promise: Time Travel Novel by 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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Christmas Cats Flee the Bee by Constance Corcoran Wilson

Christmas Cats Flee the Bee by Constance Corcoran WilsonDescription Christmas Cats Flee the Bee by Constance Corcoran Wilson


Publisher: Quad City Press (July 31, 2019)
Category: Children’s Books, Cats, Christmas
Tour Date: Oct & Nov, 2019
ISBN: 978-0986389849
Available in: Print & ebook,  68 Pages
Christmas Cats Flee the Bee

The Christmas Cats Can’t Help When the Hive Elects a Bad Bee. The bees learn a valuable lesson about making important decisions without enough information. They also learn that everyone needs to work to earn the trust of others.

My Thoughts Christmas Cats Flee the Bee by Constance Corcoran Wilson


The Christmas Cats are at it again, trying to help others in need.  However, this time they may not be able to save the day for the bees and their queen.  It teaches children a bit about democracy and the importance of choosing a honest leader that will not corrupt the hive and country.

I think there will be some parents who will be reluctant to share this book with their children but if I had small children, I would.  I think it is good to start teaching children about democracy and how we can and have elected corrupt leaders.  ‘The Christmas Cats Flee the Bee’ does this in a fun way.  The rhyming prose and vibrant illustrations are excellent!  I give it 5 out of 5 stars. 

I received the ebook version for my honest review.

Connie Corcoran WilsonAbout Constance (Connie) Corcoran Wilson


Connie has published many works representing a variety of genres. Wilson’s first book (1989), published by Performance Learning Systems, Inc. of Emerson, New Jersey, Training the Teacher As A Champion, put forth the teaching techniques and principles taught by the nation’s largest teacher training firm. Written by Wilson in collaboration with PLS founder Joseph Hasenstaab, the book gives an insight into the effective teaching practices of successful teachers, those techniques included in that organization’s Project T.E.A.C.H. (Teacher Effectiveness and Classroom Handling). Connie taught at the elementary level for 20 years, taught writing at 6 IA/IL colleges, and founded the second Sylvan Learning Center in the state of Iowa in 1986.

Since then, Connie has published 30 titles in a variety of genres, with the Christmas Cats series written with and for her then-six-year-old granddaughters, Ava and Elise. (Illustrations by Gary McCluskey).

The Christmas Cats Encounter Bats was one of 7 books singled out by the CWA (Chicago Writers’ Association) as one of the Best Books of the Year by a Chicago author in 2014 at its annual award ceremony.

Connie’s adult fare has won “Shelf Unbound” Page-Turner of the Year awards, NABE (National Association of Book Entrepreneurs) Pinnacle Awards, E-lit awards, LuckyCinda awards, Silver Feather Awards as Writer of the Year from the IWPA (Illinois Women’s Press Association) in 2012 and 2014 and, Midwest Writing Center’s Writer of the Year Award in 2010 as well as   a Writer’s Digest awards (screenplay). She was also named the Yahoo Content Producer of the Year for Politics in 2008 after following the presidential election of 2008.

Connie maintains two short story series and a novel series as Connie Corcoran Wilson, but uses her full legal name, Constance Corcoran Wilson, on her children’s series.

Website: www.WeeklyWilson.com
Christmas Cats Website: http://www.thexmascats.com/

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Christmas Eve Daughter: A Time Travel Novel by Elyse DouglasChristmas Eve Daughter: Time Travel Novel by Elyse Douglas

Publisher:  Broadback (Sept. 12, 2018)
Category: Time Travel, Historical Fiction, Romance, Christmas
Tour dates:Oct-Nov, 2018
ISBN:
Available in Print and ebook, 385 pages

The Lost Mata Hari Ring

The sequel to The Christmas Eve Letter!

When husband and wife, Eve and Patrick Gantly, discover a shocking secret from Patrick’s past, they make the difficult decision to use the old lantern once again to return to 1885. They hope to save his child from a tragic future.

Although they try to plan for every possible contingency, something goes wrong.  They lose each other and end up in a different time!  Nothing goes as planned.  They struggle to save Patrick’s daughter from certain death, even as they search for the lost lantern that will return them to their own time.

My Thoughts Christmas Eve Letter: Time Travel Novel by Elyse Douglas


Another delightful read from husband and wife author team, Elyse Douglas!  As always, the characters jump off the page and pull you in.  Poor Eve, she had so much trouble finding her husband, Patrick.  They each landed in a different place while time traveling.  I loved the dynamic between Eve and Irene Casterbury in 1914.  Irene is such a spitfire for that time period.  Real women from history like her helped pave the way for today’s women!  We owe them many thanks!

I liked the idea of the lantern as the portal for time travel and how imperfect it was.  The writing is so fresh and pulls the reader in after just a few pages.  Elyse Douglas captures the sense of time and places in a way that make you feel as if you were there.  I think fans of ‘The Time Traveler’s Wife’ by Audrey Niffenegger would love ‘The Christmas Eve Daughter’!

Do you want to know if Patrick and Eve found each other again and if they were able to save Patrick’s daughter, born in 1885?  Since I don’t give spoilers, you will have to read the book.  I highly recommend it!  It is book two of ‘The Christmas Letter’ series but can be easily read on its own.  I enjoyed it so much that I do plan to read the first book.

5/5

I received the ebook for my honest review.

About Elyse DouglasChristmas Eve Daughter: Time Travel Novel by Elyse Douglas


Elyse Douglas is the pen name for the husband and wife writing team of Elyse Parmentier and Douglas Pennington. Elyse began writing poems and short stories at an early age and graduated with a degree in English Literature. Douglas began writing novels in college, while studying music at the Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music.  He traveled the world as a professional pianist for many years.  He has also worked as a copywriter and corporate manager.

Some of Elyse Douglas’ novels include: The Christmas Eve Letter (A Time Travel Novel), Christmas for Juliet, The Summer Letters, The Christmas Diary, The Summer Diary, and The Lost Mata Hari Ring. They live in New York City.

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

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