Christmas 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 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.

Praise Christmas Eve Letter: Time Travel Novel by Elyse Douglas

“The Christmas Eve Letter is a wonderful Christmas novel. The authors weave an intriguing time travel holiday romance tale written in the third person narrative that follows Eve Sharland’s personal journey between the present and the past.  The reader is easily drawn into this fast paced time travel holiday romance story as they follow Eve’s journey between the past and the present. The reader can easily envision both the present and the past among the city’s famous landmarks, and easily get drawn into the city’s joyous sights and sounds of the holiday season. You can’t help but relate to Eve and cheer her on as her personal journey brings an unexpected destiny that will change her life forever. I really enjoyed the intertwining of a time travel tale with a holiday romance twist, the historical references were realistic, while the time travel between the present and past kept me intrigued right to the end.  Captivating.”-Kathleen, Jersey Girl Book Reviews

“If you are a fan of authors such as Nicholas Sparks and  Marybeth Whalen, or H.G. Wells or Jack Finney, you need to add this book to your shelves.
This is a romantic suspense novel with many dangerous and tense moments. As always, when one travels in time, the concern of consequences and potential changes to history and the future weigh heavily on both the traveler’s and readers’ minds.  Those worries added to the atmosphere but were also handled skillfully. I smiled at a certain twist of color. It is a perfect bookclub read.”-Laura’s Interests

“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

A great plot and a very fast-paced and well told story.  The women characters were strongly portrayed.   I got taken on the ride of my life, traveling between different eras with Eve and waiting with bated breath to see how the story would turn out.-Corinne Rodrigues, Everyday Gyaan

The Christmas Eve Daughter – A Time Travel Novel: The Sequel to The Christmas Eve Letter by Elyse Douglas
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I was sent a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review. I was not financially compensated, and all opinions are 100 percent mine.

First of all, I did not read the first book, but I had no trouble jumping into this book without the foundation of the first. The author did an exceptional job of filling in the necessary details, and I never felt lost. And it is not every author that can do that.

If you are concerned about content, there is nothing untoward in this book. There are a few scenes of violence, but nothing is overly graphic. Any potentially profane language is mild, and there are no bedroom scenes. This book is definitely suitable for teenagers and even pre-teens if they like historical romances. Moreover, adults will thoroughly enjoy this book.

From the very first page through the epilogue, I was enraptured with the storyline. I enjoy time travel stories with mystery, substance, romance, and of course, accurate historical detail. This book definitely had it all, and I simply luxuriated in this tale. The characters were charming and endearing, and there were so many surprises along the way. This is easily one of the smartest time travel novels I have ever read, and if “Outlander” had the clean-cut quality of this story without the superfluous bedroom scenes, I would be much more inclined to watch that series. I think this book is the perfect vehicle for a movie, and I can only hope that there will be more in the series. Rarely do I enjoy a book that I have reviewed so much that I would be willing to buy it for myself, but this is one I would definitely purchase. This book is truly as close to perfection as the reader could imagine!

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EXCERPT

The Christmas Eve Letter

Eve arrived home at a little after four, concerned that Patrick had not responded to any of her texts or calls. While Georgy Boy swam around her heels, she called to Patrick. When there was no answer, she grew even more concerned. She passed through the living room, searched the empty bedroom and entered the kitchen. Her eyes fell on the note, and she froze.
She snatched it up and, with a racing heart, read it. Disbelief surged, then hurt and angry tears. She slung the note away, cursing. How could he do this to her? She had trusted him. He had told her he wouldn’t go without her. He had lied, and he had never lied to her before.
Then came the hot panic—life without Patrick. For a few paralyzing minutes, Eve struggled to think. How long ago had he left?
Eve sprang into action, unbuttoning her shirt and flinging it away. She reached for her jeans’ zipper, tugged it down, dropped the jeans and kicked them away.
Minutes later, she was struggling into her security belt, her corset and her royal blue, two-piece bustle dress, with buttons up the front. Its low waist and low bust, supported by the corset, were already uncomfortable. She dressed the best she could, smoothing out the folds, drapes and pleats, twisting and adjusting the bulky, restricting thing.
Next, she pulled on her high button-up boots and then stumbled over to the mirror. She looked harried, her eyes bloodshot from tears, and her hair was all wrong for 1885. There was no time to style it. She had to run for a taxi and get to Central Park. If she was lucky, Patrick hadn’t had enough time to light the lantern.
As she flopped down on the bed to call Joni, Georgy Boy whined for attention. She patted his head, absently, waiting anxiously for Joni to pick up.
“Come on, Joni. Come on… Pick up. Pick up the phone!”
“Eve?”
Eve spoke rapidly. “Joni, can you come to the park now?”
“Now?”
“Yes. Patrick left without me.”
Silence.
“Joni… Please, can you come?”
Joni sighed into the phone. “Yes, Eve. I’m leaving now. Should be there in twenty-five minutes or so.”
With no time to spare, Eve swung into her long burgundy Victorian coat, snatched her purse and cellphone, and boiled out of the apartment, turning abruptly to whisper a goodbye to Georgy Boy.
She hailed a green cab on Broadway, swung in and gave him her destination, asking him to drive as fast as possible. The young driver, wearing a Yankee’s base-ball cap, accepted the challenge with a sharp nod. The cab jumped away from the curb and gathered speed, swerving out into slow traffic.
At East 66th Street, Eve paid the driver and exited, glancing about, unaware that her costume was drawing curious glances, even from New Yorkers, who’d seen it all and then some.
Just as she had done nearly a year ago, she entered Central Park, walking briskly west under a gray sky, against a pushing wind, oblivious to the steady stream of people entering and leaving the park.
Eve pressed on toward the beautiful Bethesda Ter-race and the Central Park Mall that runs through the middle of the Park from 66th to 72nd Streets. She half walked, half ran, craning her neck, searching for Pat-rick, soon arriving at her destination—The Poet’s Walk, at the southern end of The Mall. She rushed past the four statues of renowned writers, Fitz-Greene Halleck, Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott and William Shakespeare.
Of course, Patrick knew where to go, and which bench to find. It was the same bench Eve had sat on when she first time traveled to 1885, and where she and Patrick had returned in December 2017.
The wind came in bursts; the sky threatened rain, and as tourists and joggers drifted by, many glanced skyward, their expressions darkening as they began making their way to the nearest park exits.
When Eve saw Patrick sitting dejectedly on the bench, she stopped short, hands on her hips, breath coming fast, relieved, but fighting back anger.
He sat hunched, hands folded in his lap, his face rig-id and sad, the lantern standing beside him, unlit. What a picture they were, he in his 19th-century clothes, and the old lantern looking alien and forlorn. Both looked out of place and time.
Eve gathered herself and marched forward, stopping directly in front of the bench and Patrick, her steely eyes fixed on him. It took a moment before he lifted his somber gaze to see her.
She crossed her arms, shaking her head, her face pinched with accusation.
“How dare you do this to me,” she said, her voice quivering with emotion.
He looked at her with a tender sadness. “I couldn’t let you risk your life, Eve. I just couldn’t do it.”

About 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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