Christine Elwin’s A Tale in Time is a humorous and poignant love story with an enchanting protagonist determined to have her happy ending. 

Twenty-five-year-old Lucy Lincoln is facing a bleak future. 

It’s December 6, 2008 in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and Lucy has inherited her grandmother’s huge, decaying Victorian house.  Her beloved grandmother, recently passed, leaves Lucy not only her “manor” but also in a state of confusion, despair and isolation.  The disrepair of the old home matches Lucy’s own feelings and, as she sits on the floor on that cold, December day, a small green frog appears. 

With the walls peeling around her, the heat off, and knowing that she must sell her home, the frog is a small distraction.  He hops toward her, smiles, and then quickly turns, leaves, and slams the back door.  Is Lucy going insane?           

If that’s not bad enough, Alec Frogmore, the termite inspector shows up right after the frog leaves and the two nearly come to blows.  This scenario introduces Lucy’s journey back in time as she attempts to bring the house and her life into the present, yet yearns to visit its inhabitants of the past.  

Lucy miraculously spends a day in the year 1870 and must cope with a host of problems. The following years, 1888, 1925, and December 6, 1941, the day before Pearl Harbor, complicate her life even further.  In the meantime, Alec Frogmore has the gall to keep reappearing as a distant Frogmore relative on her trips back in time.   

Lucy’s journey takes her on a whirlwind of adventures where she learns the value of living in the present and, in doing so, finds her happy ending.  Love, laughter and pain radiate through the pages of Elwin’s delightful novel. 

About the Author

Christine Elwin is the author of Masquerade for Marriage.  She lives with her husband in Mexico.