January 1, 2025
After months of helping people flee Revolutionary France, Lili Minet must make her own escape across the Channel or face a deadly tribunal. On the crossing, a storm washes her from the boat. Armitage Pierce, lighthouse keeper on England's Loftstone Island, pulls her from the sea, and they are immediately distrustful of each other; Lili isn't sure she can believe anyone in the baffling and unbelievable England she finds herself in. When she hears the legends surrounding the island's connection to time travel, she begins to accept that she not only has left the shores of France but has landed 80 years into the future, and Armitage comes to the same conclusion. As they put together the pieces of Lili's past and her blossoming future with Armitage, they find that she isn't the only one who crossed the century. Someone is hunting Lili and is determined to drag her back to France and the clutches of history. VERDICT Eden (The Best of Friends) serves readers a sweet and modest romance that has an added spark of fun thanks to time-travel twists between Revolutionary France and Victorian England.--Kellie Tilton
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February 1, 2025
After helping more than 70 people elude the bloodthirsty clutches of the Tribunal Revolutionnaire, Lili Minet hopes she can now escape from France herself. However, just as Lili believes she may have succeeded, she discovers agent Geraud Gagnon, her professional nemesis, and his men hiding in the boat taking her to freedom. Before Geraud can take her into custody, an unexpected storm sweeps Lili overboard into the English Channel. Rescued by lightkeeper Armitage Pierce, Lili finds herself on Loftstone Island, where she faces a new dilemma. When Lili was plunged into the sea it was 1793, but now on British soil, Lili is baffled to find herself in 1873. With a flair for characterization that extends to the delightful cast of characters populating Loftstone Island, Eden (The Queen and the Knave, 2023) constructs an enchanting time-slip romance with a clever plot that not only includes some unexpected twists but also illuminates the real terrors of life in post-revolutionary France.
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