FROM PROFESSOR RANDALL’S NOTEBOOK…
FIELD RESEARCH SITES: Columbia and Waterloo, Monroe County, Illinois.
GOALS:
Discover where Fort Piggot was located on the Kaskaskia Trail, while staying clear of attractive, single colleagues (ie. Brett!) so as not to commit career suicide, and keeping the “rewinding time” program secret, so Uncle Sam doesn’t turn into Big Brother. Whew!
Merrideth Randall’s day job is teaching history at McKendree College. But after hours she turns to her first love, historical research. And she has a tool other historians can only dream of—a computer program that rewinds time!
Merrideth makes a virtual visit to the 1780s, hoping to be the first to locate Fort Piggot. Along the way, she gets a first-hand look at the lives of the courageous pioneers of the Illinois Country, who withstood Indian attacks, hardship, and loneliness to settle the rich land.
One of the settlers is James Garretson, who risks his life to take the Gospel to the very tribe that wreaked havoc on his family. Merrideth is amazed that he could forgive a crime so huge. Hero or fool, James Garretson is the ancestor of her colleague Brett, a physics professor at McKendree College.
With her findings, Merrideth is able to help Brett with his genealogy, but she can’t tell him everything she learned—like that he inherited his black hair and green eyes from James Garretson, or that his aunt’s poetry is eerily similar to the verse Garretson’s wife Isabelle used to compose at her spinning wheel.
Brett has rock-star status on campus, but amazingly enough, he seems to be pursuing Merrideth—in spite of her firm policy against dating co-workers. She would love to tell him about her amazing program, but discretion is not his strong suite. She has secrets about herself that she’d just as soon he didn’t find out either. But one virtue Brett does have is patience, and he’s quite willing to wait for Merrideth to figure things out.
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Only One Way Home is scheduled for a January 2015 release. And How Sweet the Sound will follow in the summer.
The Series Behind the Series
Read about Professor Randall’s childhood and the discovery of her mysterious computer program in THE TIME AND AGAIN HISTORY MYSTERY TRILOGY. As a matter of fact, you can get Time and Again, the first book in the trilogy FREE.
The History Behind Once Again
You get your money’s worth with Once Again. There’s the contemporary story involving Merrideth and her friends, and then there’s the story of the Garretson family who settled in my own Monroe County, Illinois in the 1780s–only five miles from where I live today. I loved learning about their lives, and I packed a ton of real history into Once Again. Although this is historical fiction, virtually everything in the story actually happened! You’ll be amazed.
Several of my reviewers (including some who are non history lovers) mentioned that after reading my books they get the urge to do a little research on their own. There’s so much more to know about the brave pioneers of Monroe County. But an author can only pack so much history into a novel! Learn more about Illinois Country of 1788 by reading the articles below.
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I have just reading "Once Again" Book 1 and "Only One Way Home" Book 2 by Deborah Heal both part of "The Rewinding Time Series"
Book 1 is about Meredith Randall who is a teacher of history. She has a program that she puts in her computer and she can go back in time. This time it is the 1780's to try to find Fort Piggot. She gets to see how hard it was for our pioneers to survive. Brett is her fellow professor at school and he is the ancestor of one of the settlers. Brett likes the information that Meredith is giving him. Brett has decided that he will wait for Meredith if he has to.
Book 2 has Meredith once again taking her friends Andy and John along this time. Her new client has an ancestor called Matthias Frailey and they find him to be a hero in 1838 during The Trail of Tears that the Cherokee endure. At home Brett Garrison is still waiting for her. Nick Landis who is a Golconda historian is also after her. Meredith is afraid to trust either of them. What will she decide? I was given these books for the purpose of a review and all opinions are my own.
I am giving these book a 4/5 each.
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