Crystal Memories

by Ginny Aiken

Winona, Minnesota, 1997. Amelia Baldwin is thrilled to be costuming a vaudeville revival at a beautiful old theater. She loves things from another time. But Amelia had no idea that she would soon become a part of the past--until she wakes up in a turn-of-the-century opera house in the Winona of 1900, looking into the sky-blue eyes of a man who needed her more than she could know.

Genres: Romance, Time Travel

304 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published October 1, 1997

About the author

Ginny Aiken, a former newspaper reporter, lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and their three younger sons--the oldest is married, has flown the coop, and made her a doting grandmother. Born in Havana, Cuba, and raised in Valencia and Caracas Venezuela, Ginny discovered books at an early age. She wrote her first novel at age fifteen while she trained with the Ballets de Caracas, later to be known as the Venezuelan National Ballet. She burned that tome when she turned a "mature" sixteen. An ecletic list of jobs--including stints as reporter, paralegal, choreographer, language teacher, retail salesperson, wife, mother of four boys, and herder of their numerous and assorted friends, including the 135 members of first the Crossmen and then the Bluecoats Drum & Bugle Corps--brought her back to books in search of her sanity. She is now the author of twenty-seven published works, but she hasn't caught up with that elusive sanity yet.

http://ginnyaikenwrites.com/About_Me....

Reviews

[ShyAnn64 · Rating 1 out of 5]

Amelia Baldwin traveled to Winona's Opera House because of her talent for period costuming. She had been hired to costume a vaudeville revival, and she just could not wait to get to work. The feeling of deja vu was something she had not quite expected, and the gorgeous, if sad-looking, man in the portrait in the lobby looked a bit familiar; but she quickly shrugged it off as silliness and continued her admiration of the theater. A fall through the floor of the opera house stage, however, took her on a trip that she could barely believe. The clothes all appeared to be Victorian and the world around her certainly seemed to be turn-of-the-century - 19th century, that is! When Amelia comes face to face with the gorgeous man from the portrait - Michael Hayak in the flesh - the world around her becomes a confused and twisted dream. Here, in this new world...this new time...Amelia finds herself in a new body, loving a man she barely knows and caring for his now motherless child. She learns she was Michael's recently deceased wife's best friend. As Michael and his tiny daughter slowly absorb Amelia into their lives, Amelia is swamped with the feeling that things are as they should be. The love that grows between Michael and Amelia is passionate and alive. But Amelia is tortured by the thought that she will be pulled back to her time, and then there are those dreadful feelings of grief, guilt, and anxiety that keep clouding her new world