Slipping Through Time

My first time travel story (The Ring O' Callum Brodgar) was recently published in an anthology: To Love a Scotsman: a Romance Anthology. The plot device I used for this story is often used in fantasy and science fiction; it's called a "time slip."

A time slip is used in fantasy to send characters into another period, but the means through which it happens is unknown in the story. There are many time travel stories that use time slipping as a plot device, usually for the main character, who has no control or understanding of how or why they time travelled. Once the protagonist has been deposited in another time, the story chronicles their attempts to blend in and/or get back to their original era. However, since they don’t know how it happened, if and when they return, the precise method of their return remains a mystery. Often, they are led to a certain place and/or a specific set of circumstances which they try to recreate in order to reverse the time travel so they can return home.

In “The Ring O’ Callum Brodgar,” there is a twist to the traditional time slip: the main character doesn’t know she has time traveled and, rather than the traditional trip to the past, she has traveled to the present from the past.

Here’s a brief synopsis:
In present-day Scotland, Anne Bradenegh is on an archeological excavation to the 18th century Castle Brodgar ruins, hoping to unearth some artifacts from the past. Instead, she uncovers her own past when she is visited by the mysterious Callum Brodgar, who has come looking for the cloak pin he lost centuries ago. Suddenly, but momentarily, she is thrust back into her former life and remembers snatches of what she has lost to the present. She must decide which life she will choose before it’s too late. The modern, professional life with her colleague and new love interest Cameron Sinha? Or the passionate life she once had in Castle Brodgar with Callum?

Link: “To Love a Scotsman: a Romance Anthology” https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06WRX1J7X