To celebrate the
release of her latest time-travel romance, IN TIME FOR YOU, Chris Karlsen is
giving away 2 Amazon $15 gift certificates and 2 ebooks! Simply leave a comment
at the end of this post to enter! The winners will be announced and contacted on February 20th.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
While horseback riding in the English
countryside, sisters, Electra and Emily Crippen find themselves trapped in a
tear in time. Thrown back to 1357 England and caught by a local noble, they are
in a place that is home but as frightening and unfamiliar as an alien world
would be. With no idea how the tear in time came about, the one thing they do
know is: they must stay together and stay near to where the event took place in
hopes of discovering the way back to their modern life. That certain need to
stay together is the first certainty taken from them when one sister is forced
to remain in England and one is sent miles away to Wales by royal order.
There is one other hope for help the
sisters don’t know exists. It’s Electra’s lover, Roger Marchand. A time
traveler himself, he never told her of his past. When he realizes what has
happened to the sisters, he enlists the help of a scientist friend to help him
open the suspected passageway through time. Any effort to save Electra and
Emily will likely cost him his life. This was the time Roger came from, a time
when his country, France, was at war with England. If he is discovered on
English soil while searching for the sisters, he will either be killed or taken
prisoner of war. Any risk is worth saving the life of the woman he loves.
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Excerpt:
While
she ate, the button on Electra's sleeve fell out of the frog loop. She didn't
hook the button again, reaching for her wine instead. The sleeve pulled back
from her wrist to expose her watch, which she hadn't thought to remove.
"What
is that?" Simon asked and pointed to her Seiko.
"A
watch." What a bizarre question. There wasn't a corner of the planet that
people didn't recognize a wristwatch.
A
frown slowly formed and he stretched across Emily and took hold of Electra's
hand to tug it toward him for a better look. He turned her hand over and in a
matter of seconds had the clasp undone.
He
brought the candle in front of his trencher closer and held the watch under it.
"What do the numbers mean?"
"It's
a clock, a miniature timepiece you wear on your wrist."
From
his expression, the explanation puzzled him. "Do they not have candle
clocks in this Greenland you claim you're from?"
How
to explain the abundance of various clocks to a man who apparently has no
context for the anything beyond a candle clock or similar ancient means of
telling time?
"Are
you saying you've never seen a clock?" Emily asked.
"One
like this? No, I have not."
Emily
bent her head nearer Electra and whispered, "Are you thinking what I
am?"
"Sadly,
yes."
Simon
ran his finger over the watch face. "These small digits, what is their
meaning?"
"It's
the date and year: 5.14.15."
He
shook his head. "What year is 15?"
"2015,
of course."
"You
are mad. It's the year of our Lord,
1357."
"What
year were you born?"
"1327,
why?"
Electra
didn't care for the speed which Simon answered. She held onto the small hope
this was some odd reality show and that he'd stumble or hesitate before coming
up with a year. "No reason, I was just curious." She turned to
Richard who'd been chatting with the serving girl. She tapped his arm. Getting
his attention she asked, "Richard, what year is this?"
He
tipped his head like a dog hearing a strange noise. She assumed he too thought
her mad for asking. "1357. Do you measure your years differently in your
native country?"
"Yes,
it's a different time there." A
different world. She looked over at Emily, who'd been listening. The color
had drained from her face.
For
both their sakes, Electra fought to keep from falling apart in front of the
whole room. She failed and began to tremble uncontrollably. She balled her
hands into fists and turned from Simon to Richard. "I need to go outside.
I feel sick."
"I'd
like to go too," Emily told Simon.
"I'll
go as well." He smiled. "Just to make certain nothing untoward
befalls you."
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Chris Karlsen is
a Chicago native. Her family moved to Los Angeles when she was in her late
teens where she later studied at UCLA. She graduated with a Business Degree.
The daughter of a history professor and a mother who was a voracious reader,
she grew up with a love of history and books.
Her parents were
also passionate about traveling and passed their passion onto Chris. Once
bitten with the travel bug, Chris spent most of her adult life visiting the
places she'd read about and that fascinated her. Her travels have taken her
Europe, the Near East, and North Africa, in addition to most of the United
States. She most frequently visited England and France, where several of her
books are set.
After college,
Chris spent the next twenty-five years in law enforcement with two agencies.
Harboring a strong desire to write since her teens, upon retiring from police
work, Chris decided to pursue her writing career. She writes three different
series. Her historical romance series is called, Knights in Time. Her romantic
thriller series is Dangerous Waters, and he latest book, Silk, is book one in
her mystery/suspense series, The Bloodstone series.
She currently
lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and five wild and crazy rescue
dogs.
Website is: http://chriskarlsen.com/
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