My quiet words hung between us. Inside, I cringed.
There was no reason ever to tell the natives why we were there or to
hint at future tech. Nothing would corrupt the timelines quicker than a peek at
the future, and I felt cold at the secret I almost revealed.
Davy replaced his cup in its saucer, and
then reached across the table and touched the back of my hand. My gaze leaped
to meet his. “Maybe when I go on leave next time, you might come with me? I
could take you to Hadrian’s Wall and to sample my mum’s baking.”
Shame flooded me at the deception I was
creating. I couldn’t look at him. I tucked both hands in my lap and stared down
at the table. The tea left a bitter taste in my mouth, or maybe that was guilt?
This was so unfair.
I didn’t even realize I was trembling until
Davy spoke in a low, pained voice. “I’m sorry, Isabella. I didn’t mean to make
you feel uncomfortable.”
Looking up, I saw the hurt in his eyes and
the way his jaw tightened. “I’m sorry,” I blurted. “I can’t do that.”
His mouth twisted, but he didn’t look away.
“I’ve only known you a couple of days, and I know it’s too soon to be making
plans, so don’t say no. Not yet.” He hesitated. I wondered if he could hear how
loud my heart was pounding. “Let’s just take it as it comes. One day at a
time.” His lips curved in a ghost of a smile. “Can we do that?”
I longed to say yes. This was supposed to
be a fact-finding exercise and a step toward an excellent grade for the field
trip. Over a pot of tea in a bustling café, it had grown into something I
didn’t recognize.
“Isabella?” His voice was soft, coaxing me
to speak. I remembered when he said my name that first night. The gentle lilt,
the way it rolled off his tongue like an endearment. I swallowed. I was in way
over my head already.
Still he watched me. Tension vibrated in
the air. I couldn’t say yes, but it would kill me to say no. The paper I’d
written was meaningless. Their chances of survival—this man’s chance—was
dependent on more than proximity to home. He wanted someone to come back to.
There was a lump in my throat the size of a
rock. “One day at a time.”
His
smile was real this time. “That’s all right, then.” He slid the plate of
forgotten carrot cake toward me. “We start with cake.”
Blurb:
Time travel
student Isabella Gillman is about to embark on her most challenging assignment--leaping
back to 1941 to observe World War II. The rules are simple: don’t get
emotionally involved, and don’t interfere.
She breaks the
first rule when she falls in love with rear-gunner Davy Porteous. The second is
on its way out as well, when she realizes history says he won’t survive the
war. Torn between the fundamental laws of her society, and the man she loves,
Isabella faces a harsh reality: does she risk both their lives for a future
that may not happen?
She can’t predict
the results if she corrupts the timelines, but without her actions, Davy is out
of time.
Trailer link: https://youtu.be/81eQC1WmBks
Author
links: www.SofiaGrey.com
Author
bio:
Romance author Sofia Grey spends her days
managing projects in the corporate world and her nights hanging out with wolf
shifters and alpha males. She devours pretty much anything in the fiction line,
but she prefers her romances to be hot, and her heroes to have hidden depths.
When writing, she enjoys peeling back the layers to expose her characters’
flaws and always makes them work hard for their happy endings.
Music is
interwoven so tightly into my writing that I can’t untangle the two. Either I’m
listening to a playlist on my iPod, have music seeping from my laptop speakers,
or there’s a song playing in my head – sometimes on auto-repeat.
To celebrate the release, the first in series
(Lila's Wolf) will be discounted to 99c, from 1 – 7 June.
Blurb:
When Lila Cammell is abandoned by her
time-jump partner, leaving her alone in Britain in the Dark Ages, revenge is
the only thing on her mind. She’d trusted Jared Grohl with her life and her
heart, and bringing him to justice will be sweet.
Finding him captured and enslaved by the
Saxons changes all her assumptions. Now it’s a fight for survival, but the only
way to save him, might be to leave him behind.
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