A Stitch in Time: A Victorian time-travel romance

Kelley Armstrong

Oct 2020 · A Stitch in Time Book 1 · KLA Fricke Inc

About this eBook

Escape into this time travel romance series by #1 New York Times bestselling fantasy author Kelley Armstrong…

Thorne Manor has always been haunted…and it has always haunted Bronwyn Dale. As a young girl, Bronwyn could pass through a time slip in her great-aunt's house, where she visited William Thorne, a boy her own age, born two centuries earlier. After a family tragedy, the house was shuttered and Bronwyn was convinced that William existed only in her imagination. 

Now, twenty years later Bronwyn inherits Thorne Manor. And when she returns, William is waiting. 

William Thorne is no longer the boy she remembers. He’s a difficult and tempestuous man, his own life marred by tragedy and a scandal that had him retreating to self-imposed exile in his beloved moors. He’s also none too pleased with Bronwyn for abandoning him all those years ago. 

As their friendship rekindles and sparks into something more, Bronwyn must also deal with ghosts in the present version of the house. Soon she realizes they are linked to William and the secret scandal that drove him back to Thorne Manor. To build a future, Bronwyn must confront the past.

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Keywords: award-winning novel; time travel novel; time slip; Victorian romance; bestselling author; gothic; second chance at love; cold-case mystery; haunted house; Yorkshire moors; first in series; no cliffhangers

Ratings and reviews

time-travel, romantic, historical-fiction, historical-research, mystery, situational-humor, supernatural, suspense, no-gratuitous-erotica***** An old Victorian mansion in the North Yorkshire moors is in the late eighteenth century as well as the present time, as are select people like widowed Bronwyn and William who have known each other since childhood but with a twenty three year gap. There are apparent ghosts, mysteries, suspense, and more. Of course I loved the story, but what was best was the clarity of the imagery and the way the characters are so real to me. This story is so well crafted that, as the reader, I felt totally involved and a part of it all. I requested and received a free ebook copy from Subterranean Press via NetGalley. Thank you!

I could not put this book down, and am writing the review after having read the second book in the series as well - they are both wonderfully written and thoroughly engaging. It is haunting and beautiful, full of history, love, mystery, and loss along the way. I have been following Kelley Armstrong for many years now and this has quickly become my favourite series from her, much to my surprise because I love the rest! I am hoping for many more adventures from Thorne Manor.

I could not put this book down. This novel has it all; suspense, romance, drama and mystery. A time travelling who dunnit. This is now on my list of top 10 most creative and favorite stories of all time.

About the author

Kelley Armstrong believes experience is the best teacher, though she’s been told this shouldn’t apply to writing her murder scenes. To craft her books, she has studied aikido, archery and fencing. She sucks at all of them. She has also crawled through very shallow cave systems and climbed half a mountain before chickening out. She is however an expert coffee drinker and a true connoisseur of chocolate-chip cookies.