The "Passage" Saga
Time Travel Romance At It's Finest
The “Passage” Time-Travel Saga is a must read for every fan of time travel-romance fiction. Book One, “Charmed Passage” follows Kristie Somers as she journeys from the year 1999 back to the end of the Civil War. She meets Colonel Eric Langston—a man she has hated for 135 years. Book Two, “Destined Passage” tells the story of Brittany Cavanaugh, who has the distinction of having traveled through time twice: first to the doomed ocean liner, Titanic, and then to an island off the coast of Florida in the year 1869, where she is mistaken for the head of a white slavery ring. Book Three, “Doomed Passage” dives head on into the occult when Ian Buchanan is dropped into the year 1692 at the time of the Salem Witch Hunts. He meets the young and beautiful Ariana, a self-proclaimed witch who carries a dark secret that will travel with them forward in time to the year 1861. The time travelers in the first three books have one thing in common—they all owned an ancient amulet that possessed awesome powers, including the ability to transcend time itself. Book Four, “The Ultimate Passage”, brings the story of the amulet full circle, disclosing its origins. It also introduces a very special couple to the time travel saga: Darius Calhoun from the year 2320—he is the President of a very different United States—and Lara MacGregor who meets Darius when he is deposited in her bathing chamber in Ayr, Scotland in the year of our Lord 1308.
From Jean To You: The books in The "Passage" Saga were written early in my career when Kathleen Woodiwiss was my hero. I loved her steamy romances and, quite understandably, that's where I started in my writing career, also. The books are steamy, yes, but they are also filled with action and adventure that will keep the reader turning pages until the very end.
BOOK ONE
Kristie Somers is happy in her life. She has a promising career ahead of her, grandparents who love her, and no time for a man. Or so she thought, until she was dropped in the year 1864 at the close of the Civil War. The handsome Colonel Eric Langston was a man to be hated. Her grandparents told her so. Her family has despised him for generations. He commanded the Union regiment that invaded her ancestral home; he was responsible for Whispering Willows being burned to the ground. Why then, does her heart pound every time he enters a room? Why do his fiery kisses stir her like no man ever has before? And how can she just overlook the fact that she knows he is destined to die an alcoholic? Charmed Passage is the first book in the "Passage Sage," which follows the life of an ancient amulet whose awesome powers include the ability to transcend even time itself. The reluctant Kristie Somers is the charm's first "rightful owner," but she will not be the last.
BOOK TWO
Brittany Cavanaugh, an oceanographer from the year 2001 and the second "rightful owner" of a mysterious Haitian amulet, travels through time, along with her fiancé Ian Buchanan, to the doomed ocean liner, Titanic. Despite their best efforts to convince the captain that the ship will hit an iceberg and sink in only two hours, Brittany and Ian are thrust into the icy waters of the north Atlantic when Titanic goes down. She cries for someone, anyone to save them. The amulet grows warm against Brittany's chest and both her and Ian are picked out of the water and forced to face separate destinies. Brittany ends up in the post Civil War era, where she is mistaken for the leader of an elusive White Slavery Ring; Ian is nowhere to be found. She meets the infamous Jacques Devereaux, a dashing and extremely handsome Civil War blockade runner turned White Slaver, but her heart is torn when she must choose between the pirate and Clay Gentry, a refined southern gentleman who is in the midst of a desperate search for his missing twin sisters—and President Grant’s daughter.
BOOK THREE
Ian Buchanan was separated from his fiancee, Brittany Cavanaugh, in the icy waters of the North Atlantic when the infamous ocean liner, Titanic, sank. Where she is, he has no idea, but the ancient Haitian amulet that transported the couple from the twentieth century has now chosen to drop him in the year 1692 at the time of the Salem Witch Hunts. Ian meets young, innocent Ariana; a woman who, despite the fact that she is only sixteen years old, stirs Ian's blood. Even more disturbing to the twentieth century man? She is a self-proclaimed witch, who wears the same amulet that he last saw around his beloved Brittany's neck. When the fanatical Puritans decide to hang Ian and Ariana as witches, too, the young woman screams a frantic plea to the goddess, Aveena. The couple is then transported through time again, this time to Fort Sumter at the beginning of the Civil War.
BOOK FOUR
Darius Calhoun is President of the U.S. in the year 2320. Citizens of earth now live in domed cities. They no longer feel hatred, jealousy, envy or love. They don't have sex either, and haven't for nearly two hundred years. Why? Because it's messy, unsanitary and can transmit disease. Imagine Darius' horror then, when he suddenly finds himself displaced in time at the whim of the goddess Aveena, goddess of love. Only one thing in 14th century Scotland enables Darius to keep his sanity. Her name is Lara Macgregor. Lara is beautiful, spunky, and looking for a mate. Of course, in this day and age, that means having sex and Darius wants no part of it. He feels nothing for Lara but friendship -- at least he didn't at first. Now, though, strange things are happening to his mind and body and, with the war for independence in Scotland gaining momentum, so does Darius' resolve that government leaders in his own time did something terribly wrong.