Out of Time: A Time Portal Romance

by Nancy Jo Dillman

It's 1692 in Massachusetts Bay Province, where the citizens of Salem village are embroiled in a witch hunt that has claimed many innocent lives. It is also home to CHASTITY WINSLOW, a young Puritan woman who is tormented by visions of an alien world so bizarre, she fears she's going insane like her long-dead mother. Compelled to turn her 'daydreams' into detailed charcoal drawings, she must guard her secret well, for if they are discovered she'll be hanged as a witch. The arrival of two strangers with secrets of their own entangles Chastity in an explosive love triangle that may not only break her heart, it may send her to the gallows. Young Creole musician LUC FORTIER dreams of becoming a professional singer/songwriter but lacks the courage to give up his dead-end life and his role as caregiver for his beloved grandmother, MAMA TESS. Betrayed by his first love, he avoids romantic entanglements, preferring one-night stands with women he meets online or his 'friends-with-benefits' relationship with his employer's daughter. When he's flung three hundred years into the past, however, he meets a young Puritan woman who rekindles his emotions but inadvertently leads him into mortal danger.Although her family expects her to marry into a wealthy family, TALLEY SUE WILLIAMS worries her marriage to JARED ROSS will be as empty as that of her parents, and she begins a secret summer fling with Luc. But she gets more than she bargained for when they are transported to 17th-century Salem, where her modern beliefs clash with the villagers' ignorance and superstition, causing unintended and potentially lethal consequences. Three young lives merge in the boiling cauldron of Salem's witchcraft mania, where religious zealotry rules the day, families and neighbors betray each other, and innocent people are executed. Will Chastity, Luc, and Talley survive and escape back to the future, or will their volcanic love triangle destroy them all?

308 pages, Paperback

Published May 20, 2019