A Time To Dream
A Time to Dream by Sherry Lewis is a Time Passages release and as far as I know the first novel from this author.
Shelby Miller is the caretaker of Winterhill, a beautiful house that is the twin of Summervale a short distance away. Intrigued by the history of the houses Shelby is fighting to save them from an uncertain fate.
Summervale was the first of the houses to be built by Zacharias Logan and he had lived there with his wife for a short time before he moved out taking his two young sons with him.
When he moved out he built Winterhill and continued his life there while watched over by his domineering mother.
His wife Agatha on the other hand lived the life of a recluse in Summervale. Feared by her servants and shunned by the people of the town she appeared to have no friends and no will to live.
Shelby is intrigued by the story and while wandering through Summervale she wonders about what had happened to drive Agatha from the world. When she suddenly finds herself in the past and living in Agatha’s body she has the chance to find out first hand what had happened…if she could only get someone to tell her.
The servants she finds waiting on her are forbidden to mention anything about what had happened and Zacharias himself is cold and distant and keeps very much to himself at Winterhill, never venturing to Summervale where Shelby suddenly finds herself living.
Slowly Shelby manages to convince everyone not that she is not Agatha or that she is from the future but merely that Agatha has undergone a change for the better.
Slowly working on Zacharias she begins to unravel the mystery of what happened all those years before even as she begins to fall in love with the man who drove Agatha from the world.
But even if she can find out exactly what happened, can she change the past and save the houses before losing her heart? Or will she find that more than she wants to see the houses safe and restored to their former glory she wants to be a part of the family she glimpses through the trees in Winterhill.
Without saying too much to give away the plot line let me simply leave
you with the assurance that this is a lovely time travel novel that truly
emphasises the different attitudes of people in the 19th Century compared
to men and women today.
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