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I’m continuing my time travel snippets this week, from a novella I wrote several years ago for an anthology called Crashing Into Love. The premise of the anthology was that a plane crash brought people together and some of them fell in love. Since I wanted to write an historical, and airplanes didn’t exist in the 19th century, I ended up writing a time travel romance, of course. It was called Crashing Through Time and I liked it quite a lot. I’ve never re-published it, but in 2017 I started revising it into a novel, called Falling In Time, but stopped when I needed time to write my Widow’s Club series.
In 2023 I’m pulling it back out, adding about 40k to it and hopefully self-publishing it later this year. But for now, I’ll share some snippets of it with you. I hope you enjoy it!
This week I’m skipping ahead a few paragraphs: Corinne wakes up beside the evil well, shaken and eager to get back to the plane wreck.
BLURB:
More than hearts can be broken when you fall through time.
Corinne McGowan survives a plane crash only to fall down a hole in time. In 1868 Cornwall, she faces the ultimate decision: Let the man she loves die, or save him and change history forever.
EXCERPT:
Shaking her head, she clutched her bag and hurried down the tree line, tripping now and then on a random hillock of upturned grass, expecting to come upon an adjacent field and the downed plane. She reached the corner of the woods and sputtered to a halt.
Still no airplane. What the hell? How had she gotten so twisted around? Had she somehow ended up on the opposite side of the well than she’d come in on? Well it would be a cold day in hell before she went back to that evil object.
Corinne heaved a sigh and continued along the grassy stretch. She stumbled again and looked down at the clumps of earth and grass, perfect crescent moon shapes bigger than her hand. Were they hoof prints?
And a little more for good measure…
As she straightened, a dull thudding began in the distance. Oh, hell no. Not the well again. She clamped her hands over her ears, but now she could feel vibrations through her feet. That hadn’t happened before, so hopefully this new disaster in the making didn’t have anything to do with the well.
Scanning the open meadow, she spotted figures on horseback spread across the expanse of grass, the nearest one bearing down on her. Quickly. Turning on her heel, she raced toward the woods, not fifteen feet from her. Almost there. Almost… Her foot caught on one of the hills of churned up grass sending her sprawling, scraping knees and elbows in the coarse greensward and filling her nose with the fresh smell of newly cut grass.
She lay petrified, afraid to move as the earth shook around her. Above her the high-pitched whinny of a frightened horse. Dear God, she’d be crushed. Rolling sharply to her left she stared up at a chestnut behemoth rearing over top of her, its front legs sawing the air, its rear ones doing an impromptu dance like a Lipizzaner stallion.
Corinne screamed and rolled again, trying to get away before the wicked hooves trampled her to jelly.
Hoped you enjoyed it! See you next week!
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Jenna Jaxon Romance--because passion is timeless. 
Yeah, not sure she’ll find the plane at any point… and what a scare…
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From personal experience, horses are remarkably nimble when they are trying to avoid something (someone) fallen on the ground… But I totally get how she could be terrified.
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Eesh. Had me putting my hands up, shielding my face. Great snippet.
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Thank you, Jeff! 🙂
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That would terrify me too! My experience of falling off of a galloping horse with no helmet pales in comparison.
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I had that same experience, Carrie-Anne. One minute in the saddle, the next on the ground. I don’t ride any more. Period. 🙂
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What a horrifying experience. I’m guessing this works out for the better or it’s a really short story. 😉
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Thank you, Daryl. Yes, if it didn’t work out, it would be a mere footnote! LOL
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Exciting and dramatic! I don’t think she’ll find the plane anytime soon.
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Thank you, Aurora. I think you’re right!
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That has to be terribly scary. You paint her confusion and terror very well.
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Thank you so much, Diane. I’m terrified being on a horse, much less under one’s hooves!
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Very dramatic and of course I can’t wait to see what happens next (guessing she won’t be trampled, however…) Enjoyed the snippet!
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Thank you so much, Veronica! I think you’re safe in your assumption. LOL
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Yikes! She can certainly get herself into trouble in a heartbeat!!
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She is indeed a magnet for trouble, Nancy–as so many of our heroines are. 🙂
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