Into the Future-excerpt

   Into the Future, Book #2 

in the time travel adventure of Torie and Dave

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    March 1883

      As the bedroom door silently gave and opened further, I saw that there was a boy standing at the large window, looking out into the backyard. He turned with a start as I tapped lightly on the door and entered. I looked into his eyes, expecting that I was going to need to pull out what little knowledge I had of Ivy’s future husband Joshua McFall. At the very least we were probably classmates at Fremont high school currently. Or we might already be flirting with romantic ideas of each other.

     I wasn’t getting a sense internally from Ivy of what she was feeling for this handsome young boy at this point in her life. I did know that about six years from now, she would become his wife and she would be passionately in love with him. I knew that he would be a wonderful husband and new father and he would die tragically and all alone out in the middle of a corn field, after just two short years of married bliss. His body would be found suspended on the strands of barbed wire and the gun which had accidentally discharged as he climbed over the fence, would be found lying nearby.

     I smiled at him now and planned to begin with offering him my condolences for the loss of his grandfather. I knew that at the very least, he would expect that much familiarity at this point in time. Instead he lowered his eyes avoiding mine and turned to briefly look at the top of a chest of drawers against the far wall as if in search of something before turning abruptly for the door.

     “I’m sorry I was just looking for…” his voice trailed off and he didn’t even attempt to finish the thin excuse as he started around me, heading out. Typical, I thought, he always did suck at trying to fit in. I grabbed him by the lapel of his suit coat and pushed the door closed and then slammed him against the wall. 

     “Are you kidding me? Dave?” I hissed.

     “Torie?” Dave squeaked as his young teenaged voice cracked.

     “Oh my God! Dave. Jesus! If you're here then that means that Rose Lynn is in our house in Fremont all by herself! How long have you been here?” I demanded as I clutched at his shirt front and shook him.

     “I’ve been here since early morning. Way before the funeral services at the Methodist church in town. We all came from there to the cemetery.”

     “Oh, Dave! That means that Rose Lynn has been alone for hours!” I shrieked.

     “Torie! Calm down. Be quiet!” he ordered.

     “Oh god! Oh my god! My poor little baby!” I felt like I was going to puke. I bent over and held my stomach as I dry heaved.

     “Torie, you need to calm down,” he said as he leaned over and put an arm around my shoulders, trying to soothe me. I used my whole body to push him away from me forcefully and he stumbled back against the wall.

     “Goddamn it, Torie! I am not your enemy! You think I did this on purpose or have any more control over this shit than you do?” he snarled, grabbing me by my arm and pulling me up straight. He turned me to pin me against the wall as he shook me gently. “Please calm down, honey!”

     “Dave, our eighteen-month-old baby is all alone in our house more than a hundred years in the future. She has likely been alone for hours and hours already and who knows how much longer we will be stuck here,” I cried.

     He pulled me into his arms and against his chest. He wouldn’t let me push him away this time. He just held me as I beat against his chest with my closed fists and he let me, until I had gotten all my hysteria out and I finally put my arms around his shoulders, hugging him desperately, burying my face in his throat.

    “Torie,” he said. “We need to be calm and try to think of some way to end this,” he whispered gently into my ear. He cradled the back of my head with his hand as he held me tight.

     “There is no way out,” I croaked against his throat. “We’re trapped here.”

     There was a hesitant rap at the door and we both stopped breathing and held perfectly still, hoping whoever was there would move on. The door creaked open and then Mahala peeked around the edge of the door to find us, in what probably looked to be a passionate embrace, as we were plastered against the wall.

     “Ivy? I thought I heard you. Are you okay? It sounded like you were upset…”

     She averted her eyes, obviously giving us a moment to retreat from each other. I quickly pushed free of Dave and then wiped my eyes on my dress sleeve. I looked into Joshua’s pained, confused eyes.

     “I'm sorry for the loss of your grandfather, Joshua,” I whispered softly. As always, like before when we warped together, trying to provide him with the information he needed to attempt to at least try and fit in.

      I grasped Mahala’s hand, quickly leaving the room without a backward glance.  

Out of the Past and Publishers Weekly

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Traveling through time to see the whole breadth and width of her family tree, from the early 1850’s through 1959 was an exhilarating escape for Torie Mills. The moment she slept in the old family home she had just bought, Torie found herself “warping” into vignettes of her family history. In this sexy paranormal romance, Torie Mills is a famous and well-off author of historical fiction who has a passion for genealogical research. She has purchased the old family home and is in the process of having it restored by hunky local contractor, David Cameron. At first, Torie merely enjoys the trips to the past; she can confirm the research she’s found and add to it. Then she learns that David Cameron can warp through his dreams the same way she can and that if they both sleep in the old house, they can meet each other in their dreams. The more David Cameron and Torie work on the old house, the more they learn they have in common, and the more they find themselves falling in love. All too soon though, Torie and David realize that there are problems with the nightly warps into the past: accidents could occur putting Torie and David in danger. 

Their adventures and discoveries make for an engrossing and interesting read.

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Amazon 5* Review~~

This book was a very good book. I would never have thought family history could be made this interesting to the point were I could not put it down. The characters were very realistic and lovable. Great read. Left me wanting to read more.

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Torie travels to 1891 and inhabits the body of her great-grandaunt Mahala Wyman

                                                        Dr. Jacob Krout and family   

        I became aware of the weight, as a person sat down beside me and I looked over to see a man dressed in a black suit. He put a stethoscope in his ears, unbuttoned my gown and placed the disc over my chest, listening to my heart. He was Dr. Jacob Krout. He had been the doctor in Fremont for more than forty-three years. He looked young, and was probably in his early thirties. I had seen several photographs of him which people had added to his online memorial. He was buried in Cedar with his family. His wife Mary Alice was a Dinsmore.

      He quietly listened to my heart as I studied his kind face.

      “Take a deep breath Mahala,” he requested. “And another. Good.” He smiled kindly at me and buttoned my gown. “I will be making the rounds to see your sister Ivy when I leave here. She and Joshua are sure looking forward to that little one. I don’t think I have ever seen a couple more anxious for a child.”

      The doctor looked from me, to some point at my left and I became aware that someone was holding my hand. My great-great-grandma Rose was sitting beside me, in a chair.

      “We are all looking forward to that new grand baby,” Rose said, patting my hand. “I think Mahala more than anyone. How is your family, Dr. Krout? Mary Alice and little Erma,”

      “Everyone is just fine. Erma will be going on ten years next month.”

      The doctor looked back to me and smiled. “I will stop again tomorrow,” he assured, rising and taking his stethoscope from his neck to place it into his medical bag on the floor beside him.

      “I’ll see you out, Doctor,” Rose offered.

      “I can see myself out, Rose.” He patted her shoulder and walked to the door. “Until tomorrow,”

      Rose turned her attention back to me as the bedroom door closed softy and I noticed she had a bible open in her lap. She began reading to me from some chapter. I have no idea what chapter it was. The good book wasn’t one of those on my book shelf. I hadn’t cracked a bible since I was confirmed at thirteen years old. Rose finished the passage and then lifted my hand and kissed the back gently.

      “Mahala, you are the light of my life, sweetheart. I want you to know that. I love you so much. We will read and pray every day until you are well. I have faith in God. You need to have faith and believe.”

     “I will, Mother. Mother, what day is it?”

     “Friday, April 10.”

     “What year?”

     She looked at me as though fearing I was having a fit or something. She touched my forehead gently, searching for fever. I was almost certain I knew the year because the doctor mentioned Ivy being anxious to deliver Katie, but I just wanted it confirmed.

     “Eighteen ninety-one, sweet,”

     Mahala Wyman died on April 11, 1891.

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Book #1
Out of the Past
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Torie Mills is beautiful, successful and a New York Times best-selling historical romance author. Determined to find some solace from her fast paced and demanding life, she decides to move to Mahaska County, Iowa—a mile outside of the tiny town of Fremont and into her great great-grandparent’s old homestead. Her plan is to restore the property to its 1870 glory days.

She hires handsome, renovation expert Dave Cameron to do the work and together they bring the old Victorian house back to life. When Torie moves in, she discovers that restoring the house has opened a portal into the past. Time traveling each night to the Fremont of old, becomes her wonderful escape and her secret obsession. When she and Dave become lovers, he gets swept into the travels as well—until they both realize, much too late, that there was evil in the past that would have been better left alone…

Book #2
Into the Future
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When author Torie Mills moved to tiny Fremont, Iowa, she found the love of her life and the place where she finally felt she belonged. Five generations of Dave Cameron’s family had inhabited the large idyllic Victorian house he and Torie now called home. They settled in, started a family and seemed to be living the perfect fairytale ending. Fast forward two years into the future. The Cameron family, including little one-year-old Rose, have been chased from their home by the time travels they believed they had left behind. Quiet Mahaska County has become a Mecca for fans of the psychological thriller Where Evil Lived, which Torie wrote concerning the 1959 mass murder of her Mills cousins. It was just meant to be a way to help Dave heal and put it behind him for good. Now it had taken on a life of its own. While Torie searches desperately for the answers that will fix her fractured family and allow them the happily ever after they deserve, Dave struggles to hold on to his sanity and keep a secret from her that will test him to the limits of his endurance as he comes to terms with the time travel gift that neither he, Torie nor their child will be able to resist or control.

Book #3
Forevermore
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Torie Mills Cameron’s world has crumbled right before her eyes. Overnight, her life has taken a terrifying turn for the worse forcing her to make a heart-breaking decision; to leave Dave and the life she always hoped for behind her. To ensure her child’s safety, she will do whatever it takes despite the cost. Dave Cameron is watching everything he ever dreamed of slip from his grasp—and with his loving wife and daughter no longer in his life, what is he left with? His dark secret, the time travels which are becoming increasingly fraught with danger. Soon though, Dave and Torie will learn that the world is not what it appears to be. They will be schooled by a wise and patient old man who will explain the time travel mystery. While all of their futures may depend upon a young child who vanished 120 years in the past and may be the only one who holds the key to—Forevermore.