Introducing the Exciting New Novel by Victoria Pitts-Caine!
About the Book:
Time cannot imprison love nor hold it in place. At Balmoral, a two-hundred-year-old estate in old Northampton, love calls and only the heart can answer.
When five-year-old Albert Farraday first sets foot on the grounds of Balmoral, he senses its magic. After he returns from the Korean War and is employed as the caretaker, Camille, the mysterious new wife of the owner of the estate, leads Albert to believe there is indeed a
force drawing the love-worn to Balmoral.
After Camille’s widowed niece visits the mansion, then disappears, he is certain his own sister Lydia traveled to meet her love and didn’t go mad as his mother had suggested.
Over the years Balmoral welcomes brokenhearted travelers who find their way to the portal and into the arms of love, and Albert comes to the understanding he is not only the custodian of Balmoral
but the keeper of its secrets.
When five-year-old Albert Farraday first sets foot on the grounds of Balmoral, he senses its magic. After he returns from the Korean War and is employed as the caretaker, Camille, the mysterious new wife of the owner of the estate, leads Albert to believe there is indeed a
force drawing the love-worn to Balmoral.
After Camille’s widowed niece visits the mansion, then disappears, he is certain his own sister Lydia traveled to meet her love and didn’t go mad as his mother had suggested.
Over the years Balmoral welcomes brokenhearted travelers who find their way to the portal and into the arms of love, and Albert comes to the understanding he is not only the custodian of Balmoral
but the keeper of its secrets.
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A brief Interview with the Author:
What do you hope
readers will take away from this book?
There’s something magical when love
finds a way. The reader will discover there is hope and a little fairy-tale
enchantment when the characters, even though they are in an unusual situation,
manage to travel through time to their true loves.
Who is one of your favorite characters in
the book and why?
Camille
Windham is my favorite. She’s the first traveler and I took a little bit of my
own ancestral background to create her.
Why did you decide to
do a time travel?
I read Love of My Heart by Bess McBride and was haunted by the story and
the concept. The couple discovers they were in love before in another time. I
decided it was a genre I wanted to try. The
Time Traveler’s Wife was another favorite.
What else about your book
might grab the reader’s interest?
There are three separate but connected stories in
Not Bound By Time and there’s a little bit for everyone from Western to World
War II to protecting the Scottish regalia in the 1500’s.
About the Author:
Victoria Pitts Caine is a
native Californian. Her varied interests include genealogy and exotic gemstone
collecting both of which she’s incorporated into her novels. While her genre is
inspirational, she has branched out into other areas such as her current
release, Not Bound By Time and a YA mystery/suspense.
The author has received recognition from: Enduring
Romance Top 10 Picks for 2008, William Saroyan Writing Conference, Byline
Magazine, Writer’s Journal Magazine, HI Families Magazine and The Southern
California Genealogical Society. Her first novel, Alvarado Gold, was published
in 2007. To complete the trilogy which began with Alvarado Gold, Cairo was
published in 2013 and The Tempering Agent in 2014.
She is the mother of two daughters. Victoria and her
husband enjoy travel, church service and emergency radio communications.
Connect with Victoria:
Website: http://vcaine.homestead.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/VictoriaPittsC
Email: alvaradogold9@gmail.com
The year was 1942, and Randolph Mitchell, along with
several of his fellow soldiers, marched down a road pockmarked by shelling in
London. He shuddered as a light mist fell around him. Late summer had gone.
A captain at twenty-two, Randolph’s first glimpses of war
lay around him. Bile rose in his throat at the devastation. Is this what years of military
boarding school has brought me to? He
bent to retrieve a bit of paper. Printed roses danced on the edge, and with
nowhere to discard it, he pocketed the small scrap of the life people there
once lived.
When the men arrived in town earlier, Randolph spotted the
young woman gazing into a merchant’s window. She carried herself with an air of
importance. Ribbons and lace accented her oddly-layered clothes of multicolored
fabrics. Such elaborate attire was ill-suited because people were starving and
only making do. Randolph dismissed her unusual manner of dress. Who could she be? So out of place,
yet so beautiful.
His troop moved up the street, and as he surveyed the area,
he forced himself to forget the woman, but when he approached the shop, she
turned, and their eyes met. Randolph Mitchell lost his heart in that split
second, but it would take his head a while to figure it out. His eyes pursued
her as she picked her way through the rubble of the bombed-out buildings.
“Hello,” he ventured.
As a delicate pink color rose from her neck, she turned her
eyes toward the window. Randolph sauntered to stand beside her and glanced at
their reflection. He stood a good foot taller than she.
His wrinkled uniform
caused a pang of self-consciousness, but his desire to speak to her quelled his
embarrassment. “I’m Randolph Mitchell, US Army.” He smiled, studying her
porcelain complexion and bright hazel eyes, hoping for a welcome response.
“I’m sorry. I shouldn’t be talking to you,” the woman said.
“It’s safe. We’ve been sent here to protect you. Or err…
your country.” Randolph took his cap off and grinned at her. “I, ah, we might
make sure you get home. Do you live close by?”
The young woman’s face blanched as she shook her head. “I
used to live here.” She sighed. Then she backed away, turned around, and
started running.
Randolph clenched his fists. He had to find out.
“Wait! I didn’t mean any harm!” He called after her. “Your
name? At least tell me your name!”
“Camille Windham,” came from her lips, and her name planted
itself in Randolph’s heart.
She scampered down the walkway away from Randolph, leaving
only her name.