Washed Ashore From the Titanic

Washed Ashore From the Titanic is a time travel romance novelette by bestselling novelist R. Barri Flowers.

In April 1912, schoolteacher Valerie McElroy and her eight-year-old sister, Ruby, booked passage on the RMS Titanic for a return trip to America after visiting an aunt in London, England. When the supposedly unsinkable passenger liner hits an iceberg, Valerie and Ruby find themselves apparently safe after being put on a lifeboat.

But things go further awry when Valerie finds herself knocked off the crowded lifeboat and into the cold sea. While attempting to swim back to safety and her sister, a mysterious fog suddenly appears out of nowhere and engulfs her, then everything goes black.

In April 2004, Jonathan Sandler, a recluse widower and author, is shocked to find a beautiful and strangely dressed young woman washed ashore and lifeless near his secluded waterfront home in Maine. Bringing her inside, he helps her regain consciousness only to discover that she has amnesia with no idea who she is or how she wound up on his shore. As much intrigued as perplexed by his unexpected guest, Jonathan finds himself falling for her, even as he tries to uncover the mystery. Never in his wildest dreams could he have imagined her story.

Valerie was equally beyond words once she regained her memory and realized that she had somehow been transported to the future--ninety-two years, to be exact. While trying to make sense of it, including falling in love with her handsome rescuer, she discovers that her sister, Ruby, is still alive.

It is after they reunite that Valerie makes a fateful decision that will impact both their lives and her future with Jonathan, assuming a future was theirs to have in the corridors of time.

Bonus material includes a complete riveting historical short story, “Murder Aboard the Titanic,” and excerpts of the author’s heartwarming contemporary romance novel, The Cabin on Belle Bay.