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Tuesday, July 12, 2016

A Twist in Time by Susan Squires @SusanSquires ~ DaVinci Time Travel Series, Book 2 #ASMSG #TimeTravel #Romance

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BOOK INFORMATION

TITLE – A Twist in Time SERIES – DaVinci Time Travel Series, Book 2 AUTHOR – Susan Squires GENRE – Time Travel Romance PUBLICATION DATE – 07/19/2016 LENGTH (#Pages/# Words) – 104,000 words PUBLISHER – Susan Squires COVER ARTIST – Rebecca , Dreams2Media
NOTE – This book can be read as a standalone.

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BOOK SYNOPSIS

An expert in Leonardo da Vinci’s works, Lucy Rossano recognizes the centuries-old time machine da Vinci said he built the moment she sees it in a Stanford lab. Fascinated in spite of the danger, she uses her knowledge to go back in time—landing in the middle of a fierce battle in tenth-century Britain. Panicked, she escapes to modern-day San Francisco, bringing something back with her: a seductive, fiercely intelligent Viking named Galen.
The presence of this enigmatic, devastatingly sexy stranger is just one of the new complications in Lucy’s life. There are others who want to harness the time machine’s power for treacherous ends, and they need Lucy to do it. Galen becomes first her protector, then the lover she’s always dreamed of. But danger is drawing closer and time is running out. For Galen and Lucy, it’s now…or forever.

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EXCERPT

“Kiss me,” she hissed, moving her head slightly to indicate the others down the dock. Just for show.” Wariness was replaced by that light in his eyes. “Ja, Lucy. I kiss you for show.” “Make it good,” she whispered. “We are new wed.” She looked up at him and suddenly she was afraid. Not that he would ravish her. She was afraid of something worse. Or better. Galen dipped his head. His breath was warm on her face. His lashes brushed his cheeks. His beard and mustache, gone, had freed his lips to reveal a sensuality that was dangerous. They brushed her lips softly. His arm came round her waist, holding her to his hip. She felt the bulge of his biceps as he tightened his embrace until she could hardly get her breath. How had her lips opened? They did it without her will. He took ruthless advantage, his own tongue slipping in to caress hers. How dare he be so tender with her? He was a Viking, for goodness' sake. But there was nothing of goodness about it and she found herself loving the moist sensuality of his mouth, the faint taste of bacon still lin¬gering from this morning. Slowly he plunged deeper and then, somehow, their tongues entwined and she was kissing him back, even though she never meant to make it a true kiss on her side. Her hands slid around his ribbed torso, under Jake’s flapping flannel shirt. The contrast between Galen’s muscled hardness and her breasts and belly pressed against him made her feel vulnerable. That wasn’t bad, exactly. She’d begun to feel light-headed by the time he broke the kiss. All her blood was pooled between her legs, and she was throbbing. He didn’t let her go. His arm still held her pressed to his hip. His eyes weren’t icy now. Definitely not. “What means ‘for show’?”

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AUTHOR BIO

Susan Squires is a New York Times bestselling author known for breaking the rules of romance writing. Whatever her time period, or subject, some element of the paranormal always creeps in. She has won multiple contests for published novels and reviewer's choice awards. Publisher's Weekly named Body Electric one of the year’s most influential mass market books and One with the Shadows a Best book of the Year. Time for Eternity, the first in the DaVinci time travel series, received a starred review from Publisher's Weekly.
Susan has a Masters in English literature from UCLA and once toiled as an executive for a Fortune 500 company. Now she lives at the beach in Southern California with her husband, Harry, a writer of supernatural thrillers, and two very active Belgian Sheepdogs, who like to help her write by putting their chins on the keyboarddddddddddddddddddddddd.

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Thursday, December 3, 2015

An Interview with Susan Squires @susansquires ~ Time for Eternity: The DaVinci Time Travel Series, Book 1 Begins


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BOOK INFORMATION

TITLE – Time For Eternity SERIES – The DaVinci Time Travel Series, Book 1 AUTHOR – Susan Squires GENRE – Regency Paranormal Romance PUBLICATION DATE – October 27th, 2015 LENGTH – 384 pages PUBLISHER – Independent COVER ARTIST – Rebecca Poole, Dreams2Media

BOOK SYNOPSIS

Desire and destiny collide in this novel—first in a stunning new series—from New York Times Bestselling author Susan Squires.
Tempted by Fate
Once, Frankie Suchet loved Henri Foucault—and it cost her everything. For two centuries, she has cursed the French duke who gave her his blood and then disappeared forever. Today, this sexy vampire is a bartender living in San Francisco. And Frankie has been granted the chance to go back in time…to kill the man who made her what she is. But becoming “Françoise” again means losing all memory of the risk Henri poses to her future…and her heart.
Seduced by Danger
France, 1794. The Reign of Terror is in full swing. From the first, Henri is an enigma, saving Françoise from an angry Parisian mob. Drawn to his seductive vitality, Françoise discovers there is much more to him than she once knew. Henri’s devotion to rescuing innocents from the guillotine is his sole passion—until he encounters Françoise’s intoxicating blend of innocence and experience. And as their attraction explodes into dangerous desire, the only way to save each other may be to sacrifice their timeless love…
“Superb writing…and intricate characterization make each novel by Ms. Squires and absolute winner.” —Romantic Times BOOKreviews

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She was about to lose her virginity and she was glad. She wanted to lose it with the wicked duc, not some dull apothecary’s assistant. Let the future be damned.
He bent to kiss her neck, now balanced on both elbows above her, and thrust in fully.
She gave a little shriek as a stab of pain shot through her. He went still. 
“You’re a virgin.” It sounded like an accusation. He dropped his head, his face curtained by his hair. “I…I didn’t know. I thought… I would never have just…” 
“It’s better now.” How embarrassing that she’d shrieked. Now he felt warm inside her. Satisfying. This was where she belonged, joined to Henri Foucault. “This is nice.” He looked so contrite. But more than that, he looked a little…frightened. Not like the wicked duc at all. She couldn’t have that. “That kissing before… down there… was nice.” 
“Have you, uh, never had an orgasm?” 
She shook her head. “I would have known, I’m sure.” 
He took a breath and squeezed his eyes at that. Then he opened them as though he had decided something. “You can get the same feeling again, only by a different means, if you’ll bear with me.” The small smile was back, but it was rueful now. “It won’t hurt like that again.” 
“I’d like that.”
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AUTHOR INTERVIEW

Author:  Susan Squires
Date of Birth:  11/27
Date of Interview:  11/23
Place:  I’m at the beach in Redondo Beach.
The Book:  Time for Eternity

Tell us about your newest release.
What genre do you enjoy writing the most? Why?
I’m a romance writer to the core. I’m always disappointed when I read a Nicolas Sparks novel that purports to be a romance but everybody dies at the end. That’s not a romance, that’s a tragedy. I love the “getting to know you” scenes where the hero and heroine begin to suspect that they are right for each other in spite of all apparent evidence to the contrary. And I love to see how characters that feel real work out their issues and achieve a happily ever after ending. I have always been a lover of the paranormal, because the consequences can be so much bigger. (Save the world, risk your soul—that sort of thing.)

What was one of the most surprising things you learned in creating your story?
TIME FOR ETERNITY was full of surprises. Time travel books allow you to visit other times and places, and so I learned lots about the French Revolution. When Frankie the modern day vampire, goes back to kill the man she thought she loved before he can turn her into a monster, I knew that modern Frankie would have to co-exist with the innocent Françoise she is in the 18th century. Figuring out how to convey that was surprising, and fun. And when I searched for my hero, I harkened back to the story of the Scarlet Pimpernel, and to my first and favorite romance hero (see below—the Duc d’Avon from Georgette Heyer.) That created a surprising meld of all my experience with romance and adventure. P.S. Did you know that Monsieur Guillotine created his device as a humane way to execute prisoners?

Who is your favorite hero of fiction? 
I loved the Duc D’Avon in Georgette Heyer’s  THESE OLD SHADES. He’s handsome, smarter than anyone else in the room, jaded and a “bad man” who has done some very bad things. Yet he finds his match in a resourceful orphan who is both as jaded as he is, and innocent in her faith in him. When he gets his revenge on the man who abandoned her to a foul fate, it’s SO satisfying.

What is your most treasured possession?
I always think of this question as, if you had 10 minutes warning of a tsunami coming (we live at the beach) what would you grab? So of course, it would be our dogs, Blitz and Belle, our treasured Belgian Sheepdogs that run our lives and “organize” us. The only question is about the word “possession.” I think they would say we’re the “possession” and they’re the owners.

With whom, living or dead and why, would you like to sit and chat with for an afternoon?
I think I’d like to talk to Abraham Lincoln. After seeing the movie a couple of years ago, I learned that he was way more complicated than anything we learned about him in school. He took great risks for something he believed in, and was willing to do some questionable things—like blackmail?—to accomplish it. He was both idealistic and imminently practical, and we could use some of that in our leaders today.

Who or what has been the greatest love of your life? Why, How?
I’ve been married for forty years, and I still love the man like crazy. Who knew? I thought I would be thirty, terribly sophisticated, having liaisons as I chose and leaving them heartbroken. I met Harry at 21, and that was all she wrote. We married four years later after cohabiting for three and a half. My parents were divorcing, and his should have divorced rather than continue their dance of pain. We didn’t have great examples of monogamy working out to happily ever after. He finally talked me into marrying him by saying that he just couldn’t take the chance of letting me get away. And he still shows me he loves me every day. Sometimes that’s by bossing me around when he doesn’t think I’m taking care of myself. But I see through that to the love beneath. We’ve supported each other through thick and thin, traveled the world together creating memories, and had great times, and we’ll have many more.

What is your greatest regret?
Actually, my greatest regret is about writing. I persevered in the en, and published 17 books with Dorchester and MacMillan before I started putting out my own books. But I didn’t do it quickly enough. What I mean is that after I wrote my first book and discovered it wasn’t very good (most first books aren’t), I didn’t start doing the hard work of learning my craft for several years. Then, when I sent out the revised first book and got an agent interested, she said I needed to cut the book almost in half to get it published, and I didn’t know how to do that. So I quit writing for another several years before I recommitted to writing and wrote a second novel. That was the one that got published (DANEGELD). SACRAMENT, the first book, was also published, after I learned how to cut it down. But I let myself get discouraged several times before I recommitted to my path. I would have been published a lot sooner if I had just kept at it. 
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How can readers connect with you online? 
My website is at www.susansquires.com and all the information about books, existing and upcoming is there, as well as pictures of locations, etc.  My author page is where I actively post on Facebook at AuthorSusanSquires. And I post on Twitter @susansquires.

Can you tell us what is coming up next for you? 
I’m currently working on the last (maybe) book in my Magic Series, about a modern day family who has inherited the magic in their DNA from Merlin of Camelot. The magic, once dispersed and lost, is coming together again. When one of the Tremaine family meets someone else with the magic gene, they get true love and a magic power. You’d think that would be great, right? But when has the course of true love ever run smoothly? Each sibling of the large Tremaine family has their own book, and we’re down to Tammy, the youngest, and the culmination of the Tremaines’ fight against the Clan (who got their power from Morgan Le Fey.) This series benefits from starting from the beginning, since you get to watch the kids grow up and into who they’ll be when they find the One for them. The first book is Do You Believe in Magic? 

TOP TEN AUTHOR TIPS
  
1.       Write routinely if you don’t write every day. It takes too much effort to get back into the habit if you let too much time go by between writing sessions.
2.       Don’t try for perfect in the first draft. Just get it down. You can always fix it later.
3.       Make sure your first chapter starts with some action and defines some problem. That’s how to make it interesting.
4.       You first line or two has to grab the reader. Make it stand out, AND reveal something about the character or the character’s problem.
5.       End chapters on a high note, or a problem or a question. Don’t let them dribble away with routine matters.
6.       Pay attention to grammar. Grammar is the signpost to meaning for the reader. And even if you hire a copy editor to clean up your bad grammar, you’ll pay a lot less if she doesn’t have to do too much.
7.       Be hard on your characters. Give them faults and problems, and then make the problems worse. Authors are in an abusive relationship with their characters, and that’s what makes a book satisfying for readers when things finally work themselves out.
8.       Speaking of faults, lots of authors make their main female characters too one-dimensional. I think that’s because we identify with our main characters. Who wants to admit faults? But multi-dimensional characters are way more interesting.
9.       Don’t use setting and situations as “wallpaper” that fades into the background your story. If you’re writing historical, tell us what it would really be like to live in that time. If you’re writing about a particular profession, bother to understand what they do and use it in the story. Really go there and take the reader with you.
10.   Take the time to put your book down after you’re finished for a “rest” period. Then go back and do a ruthless editing job on it. The time away will give you some distance. The editing will make the book the best it can be….
AUTHOR BIO
Susan Squires is a New York Times bestselling author known for breaking the rules of romance writing. Whatever her time period, or subject, some element of the paranormal always creeps in. She has won multiple contests for published novels and reviewer's choice awards. Publisher's Weekly named Body Electric one of the year’s most influential mass market books and One with the Shadows a Best book of the Year. Time for Eternity, the first in the DaVinci time travel series, received a starred review from Publisher's Weekly.
Susan has a Masters in English literature from UCLA and once toiled as an executive for a Fortune 500 company. Now she lives at the beach in Southern California with her husband, Harry, a writer of supernatural thrillers, and two very active Belgian Sheepdogs, who like to help her write by putting their chins on the keyboarddddddddddddddddddddddd.

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Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Top 10 from Author Susan Squires @susansquires of One With the Darkness ~ Release Blitz

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BOOK INFORMATION

TITLE – One With the Darkness SERIES – The Companion Series AUTHOR – Susan Squires GENRE – Regency Paranormal Romance PUBLICATION DATE – October 6, 2015 LENGTH – 341 pages PUBLISHER – Independent COVER ARTIST – Rebecca Poole, Dreams2Media

BOOK SYNOPSIS

New York Times bestselling author Susan Squires invites you into the world of two lovers who share a seductive past and a dangerous desire…
DIVIDED BY CENTURIES
Contessa Donnatella di Poliziano has power, beauty, and—as a vampire—eternal life. Her overwhelming regret is a mistake she made centuries ago when she chose not to transform her one true love, Jergan, into a vampire too. Donnatella’s choice has deprived her of the only true love she’s ever known. But just as all seems lost, the discovery of a 300-year-old note leads her to a gift left by her old friend, Leonardo da Vinci: a machine to take her back in time to rewrite the history of her heart…
UNITED BY OTHERWORLDLY DESIRE
Once back in time, Donnatella’s memory of the intervening years is lost. Yet when she sees the breathtaking barbarian slave, Jergan, from afar, she feels like she has always known him. The instant attraction she feels draws them together. For Donnatella, the romance is tantalizing, awakening a passion that feels both old and new. But as the two fall in love again, a new danger threatens to tear them apart. Now Jergan’s love for Donnatella will be tested in a most perilous way—and if he fails, the two lovers will be separated again…for eternity.
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“Squires combines extreme sensuality with dangerous drama.” —Romantic Times BOOKreviews
“ONE WITH THE DARKNESS is one of the finest, innovative vampire novels I've read.” --Romance Junkies

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EXCERPT

“Let me get your property, my lady,” the trader said. They turned to the back of the stall. Three men clustered round the straining barbarian, laughing as he tried to twist away. Blood dripped from his wrists where he had pulled against his shackles. He spat at them. It was his only means of defiance.
Graccus wiped his face and laughed. “Oh, he’ll be a joy to break.”
“I agree,” she said. The three yanked their gazes up, as did the barbarian. He flushed in shame. “Now unhand my new slave, sirs, so I may begin.”
“What? But I am buying him for my brothel!”
She waved the receipt scroll. “Too late.” Her She turned to the trader. “For the price I just paid, you can throw in a pair of shackles.” The trader nodded and clapped his hands. Slaves appeared with the required bindings. They unlocked the barbarian’s wrists from the poles and chained them behind his back before they released his feet. His ankles, too, were bloodied. Those green eyes stared at her, burning with intensity, as though he was still not sure what had just happened to him. Excitement churned inside her. This was the start of something—she didn’t know quite what. “Come quietly, slave,” she ordered, putting all the force of her personality behind her words, just shy of raising her Companion for compulsion. “You two—see that he does.” Two of Titus’s bodyguards nodded. Each took one of the slave’s arms and dragged him forward.
“You knew I wanted him,” Graccus was saying. The trader only shrugged. He couldn’t have gotten two thousand dinars for a slave bound for a brothel.
They pushed into the market throng. “There you are,” Titus called, hurrying over. Livia saw him frown as he registered the barbarian. “Livia Quintus, what is this? You’ve never purchased this creature!”
“I have, Titus. He was a soldier, therefore skilled in martial arts. He even speaks Latin. He’ll be a perfect bodyguard.”
“Livia, return him at once. This is no slave for a woman.”
Livia turned to her new purchase, seeing him through Titus’s eyes. Bloody and sweating, he looked fierce, with those intense green eyes and all that hair. But he was the one she wanted. She knew that as certainly as she knew her own name. “Once we clean him up you won’t recognize him.”
“He needs more than a bath to make him suitable.”
“You were the one who suggested a bodyguard slave, and now that I’ve meekly done as you ask, you rail at me.”
Titus rolled his eyes. “Meek? I would welcome meek.” Livia gestured her entourage forward. Titus sighed and fell in step. “I just hope you haven’t bitten off more than you can chew.”

AUTHOR BIO

Susan Squires is a New York Times bestselling author known for breaking the rules of romance writing. Whatever her time period, or subject, some element of the paranormal always creeps in. She has won multiple contests for published novels and reviewer's choice awards. Publisher's Weekly named Body Electric one of the year’s most influential mass market books and One with the Shadows a Best book of the Year. Time for Eternity, the first in the DaVinci time travel series, received a starred review from Publisher's Weekly.
Susan has a Masters in English literature from UCLA and once toiled as an executive for a Fortune 500 company. Now she lives at the beach in Southern California with her husband, Harry, a writer of supernatural thrillers, and two very active Belgian Sheepdogs, who like to help her write by putting their chins on the keyboarddddddddddddddddddddddd.


AUTHOR TOP TEN ADVICE TO AUTHORS

 1. First—don’t give up. You can’t finish a book if you don’t write. You can’t sell it if you don’t try.

     2. Learn your craft. Everybody’s first book sucks (or isn’t the best you can do.) Mine was awful. But I persevered. Eventually that book (in a much revised form,) was published by a NY publisher.

     3. Go to conferences—before you sell, concentrate on the craft presentations, as you get close to ready, then start with the selling and business presentations. It can be overwhelming to get into the business end of writing too soon.

      4. Don’t write to the market. Write what you care about and what you like to read.

     5. Hang out with other authors. Critique groups are great when you are first starting out. But have the courage NOT to take suggestions as well being open to others’ ideas. You need a strong center line about what you want your story to be. If you take everybody’s advice, your book will sound generic.

      6. Don’t get depressed if your first draft needs work. They all do.

     7. Revise! Revise some more! My favorite writing quote is from Ernest Hemingway. He said “Great books are not written, they’re re-written.”  Thank goodness. But don’t stint on the hard work of editing and making your book the best it can be.

     8. That said, perfection doesn’t exist. If you can’t get off the first chapter because it has to be perfect, take a deep breath and move on. Then fix it later. (Second favorite quote is from Nora Roberts. “You can’t fix a blank page.”)

     9. Think small. If you’re stuck, pick a small problem to solve. Never ask yourself, “How can I make this a bestseller.” Too big a question and too scary. Ask “How can I make this scene more exciting?” or “How can I end this chapter on a hook that will keep the reader reading?” Those are more manageable and less scary problems.

     10. Write regularly. I don’t say you have to write every day. I didn’t. I had a big day job, and the schedule mad writing every day impossible. But I scheduled writing in at least three times a week. I wrote 26 books that way. If it’s been a while since you wrote, writing starts becoming scary, and you tend to procrastinate, which just makes the problem worse. Have a schedule and keep to it!


Good luck with your writing endeavors. It’s a satisfying way to make, not only yourself, but others happy.

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Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Time For Eternity by Susan Squires @susansquires ~ Another HUGE Release

BOOK INFORMATION

TITLE – Time For Eternity SERIES – The DaVinci Time Travel Series, Book 1 AUTHOR – Susan Squires GENRE – Regency Paranormal Romance PUBLICATION DATE – October 27th, 2015 LENGTH  – 384 pages PUBLISHER – Independent COVER ARTIST – Rebecca Poole, Dreams2Media


BOOK SYNOPSIS

Desire and destiny collide in this novel—first in a stunning new series—from New York Times Bestselling author Susan Squires.
Tempted by Fate
Once, Frankie Suchet loved Henri Foucault—and it cost her everything. For two centuries, she has cursed the French duke who gave her his blood and then disappeared forever. Today, this sexy vampire is a bartender living in San Francisco. And Frankie has been granted the chance to go back in time…to kill the man who made her what she is. But becoming “Françoise” again means losing all memory of the risk Henri poses to her future…and her heart.
 Seduced by Danger
France, 1794. The Reign of Terror is in full swing. From the first, Henri is an enigma, saving Françoise from an angry Parisian mob. Drawn to his seductive vitality, Françoise discovers there is much more to him than she once knew. Henri’s devotion to rescuing innocents from the guillotine is his sole passion—until he encounters Françoise’s intoxicating blend of innocence and experience. And as their attraction explodes into dangerous desire, the only way to save each other may be to sacrifice their timeless love…
“Superb writing…and intricate characterization make each novel by Ms. Squires and absolute winner.”    —Romantic Times BOOKreviews

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EXCERPT

She drifted closer to the edge of the crowd, drawn by him. She must harden her heart to match his, and commit a sin in the eyes of God and man. He would lose a few months of living. She would live again.
“What have we here?” he murmured. She heard him clearly with the vampire hearing he had bequeathed her. The curve of his lip was all insouciant condescension. He strolled forward, surveying the mob.
“Monsieur, surely you will help us!”
Frankie turned at the sound of her own voice. She gasped. There she stood, the she who had been, Françoise Suchet, not Frankie, her face a mask of innocence in distress, a gendarme holding each elbow. It was a face Frankie still saw in the mirror each day, streaked with soot her blond hair glowed copper in the red light of the flames licking out the windows above her. Frankie knew intellectually she hadn’t changed with all the years, but to know this face was not a mirror image but one that lived two hundred years ago shook her sanity.
Françoise strained toward Henri in supplication. Foolish girl. The last thing she needed was Henri Foucault. That way lay vampirism.
Then the young Françoise stilled. Her head turned slowly. Her eyes locked with Frankie’s and widened.
Frankie couldn’t get her breath. Françoise seemed to grow nearer, even as the crowd behind her receded. Frankie dropped her bag, gasping, and bent over, grabbing her belly against the pain there. This was bad. Really bad. She should never have met herself. She felt like she was breaking up. A shriek escaped her. All thoes time travel books were right, she thought.
And then she was hurtling toward Françoise. She felt herself disintegrating into a mist. Then nothing.


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Susan Squires is a New York Times bestselling author known for breaking the rules of romance writing. Whatever her time period, or subject, some element of the paranormal always creeps in. She has won multiple contests for published novels and reviewer's choice awards. Publisher's Weekly named Body Electric one of the year’s most influential mass market books and One with the Shadows a Best book of the Year. Time for Eternity, the first in the DaVinci time travel series, received a starred review from Publisher's Weekly.
Susan has a Masters in English literature from UCLA and once toiled as an executive for a Fortune 500 company. Now she lives at the beach in Southern California with her husband, Harry, a writer of supernatural thrillers, and two very active Belgian Sheepdogs, who like to help her write by putting their chins on the keyboarddddddddddddddddddddddd.

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