Once and Forever
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- £4.99
Publisher Description
The New York Times–bestselling author once again “proves that love is timeless” with this tale of a modern woman who finds love in Elizabethan England (Nora Roberts).
Maggie Whitaker looks out the small window on her red-eye flight to London, asking herself a simple question. What is she doing here? Running away is the answer. Running away from unemployment, a mortgage, an artist ex-husband demanding alimony. But, Maggie is also running towards something…A romance that lies hundreds of years in the past.
Nicholas Layton is the third son of the Earl of Traherne, introduced at the court and summoned by the house of Amebury to Greville Manor. On his way there, Nicholas is thrown from his horse and meets this enchanting, perplexing Margaret who claims to come from the future. Surely she must be confused, especially considering how entangled she already is in the political machinations of Elizabeth’s royal court. But, the truth unfolds in a single, perfect kiss…
In ONCE AND FOREVER, Constance O’Day-Flannery, the original “Queen of Time Travel Romance,” shows that nothing--not insidious plots, not royal decree, not even a distance of centuries--can get in the way of true love.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
O'Day-Flannery's (Anywhere You Are) newest time-travel romance places Maggie Whitaker, a 40-year-old unemployed divorc e, in Stonehenge, England, with an unorthodox fairy-godmotherish aunt who runs a holistic health center. While costumed at a present-day Renaissance fair, Maggie follows a mysterious child and winds up in 1598, where, in addition to discovering that Francis Bacon was the true author of Shakespeare's plays, she meets Nicholas Layton, an aristocratic musician. They immediately fall in love, but he, just as quickly, dies in a fight while saving her from attackers. When Maggie returns to the 20th century (with a little help from her aunt), the reborn Nick--now a middle-aged rock musician--is waiting for her. While clich s mar the narrative's credibility (the "eternal quest" for love is overdone), this well-paced book will nevertheless appeal to her fans.
