A Gift from the Stars , Book 1 of The Regency Star Travelers, is a sweet, traditional Regency romance with science fiction elements, 71,000 words.
The Regency Star Travelers--Where the Regency and outer space meet with romance.
BLURB:
A gift from the stars can change your life.
Miss Elizabeth Ashby loves astronomy. She especially enjoys
her once-in-a-lifetime chance to observe the Great Comet of 1811. However, her
excitement vanishes the night an odd-looking meteor proves to be a sky craft
which lands nearby. The man who emerges from the vehicle doesn’t see her, but
as he reenters his craft to fly away, he drops a small red stone.
The stone from the stars glows and sends waves of warmth and
something else through Elizabeth. Her incipient cold disappears, her
illness-prone mother shakes off her maladies, and everyone else who comes near
the stone, which Elizabeth wears as a pendant, feels in the pink of health.
Including Mr. Jonathan Markham, who also saw the strange
meteor but was too far away to determine what the object was. Gored by a bull,
Jon has been slow to mend until he meets the enchanting Elizabeth. Does his
sudden speedy recovery emanate from his fascination with the desirable lady? Or
something else?
A sweet, traditional Regency romance novel with science
fiction elements. 71,000 words. A clean read.
EXCERPT:
Lower and lower the shooting star descended, much too slowly
to Elizabeth’s way of thinking. From the angle and rate of its motion, the
object would likely strike the earth close by. If she could distinguish some landmarks
by its glow, perhaps she could find the stone.
She craned
her neck back as the meteor soared across the firmament. The unearthly rock blazed
with the colors of the rainbow from friction with the air.
Coldness pricked her spine. A meteor that enormous should race through the heavens, shrieking in outrage as its surface pounded through the atmosphere. This one was silent. And the stone—or was it a stone?—sloped down in a leisurely, graceful curve, as gently as a feather floating in a light breeze.
With eerie
stillness, the object continued its glide across the ebony sky, looming ever
immense as its bulk neared the ground.
She could even
make out features. In her experience, meteors were dark, pitted lumps of rock
or metal. This one was white, its pointed nose flaring out behind to form a stretched-out
triangle, almost like a bird with unfurled wings.
And its
size! Her heart in her throat, she jumped up. The thing was larger than a mail
coach. And it would fall onto Sentinel Moor beside her house!
Continually slowing, the peculiar entity descended. The
object slipped below the level of the high Sentinel Oak across the field, and
then behind the top of the six-foot hawthorn hedge separating her garden from the
meadow.
Elizabeth
took a step to run around the tall shrub. Blinding whiteness exploded on the
moor. She threw up her hands to shield her eyes and then tumbled to the ground.
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Linda
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