Book Crazy: Book Blitz & Giveaway: Time Travel Swap by Connie Lacy!

Excerpt!

Despite her best efforts to ignore the mounting evidence, she could no longer deny that she was now filling her lungs with air thirty years in the future. Which meant those thirty years were gone. Not gone like they would be if she’d coasted along day by day as time slipped away. No, those thirty years were gone like she’d never lived them at all. In point of fact, she had not lived them. Her hair was still strawberry blonde. There were no wrinkles creasing her face. No arthritis in her knees. She was a thirty-one year old woman. If she’d arrived in 2054 in the usual manner, she’d be sixty-one. She was used to improvising – handling whatever was thrown in her path – but this? She couldn’t wrap her head around this incredible turn of events. Incredible in the original sense of the word – too extraordinary to be believed, not possible. The very idea of traveling through time was outlandish, ridiculously sci-fi. It made her feel unsteady, like she’d lost her grip on a whirling merry-go-round to be flung off into the distance, landing in uncharted territory.

She snuck a glance at him as he sipped his water. If he was perturbed by the evening’s events, you couldn’t tell by looking at him. Perhaps he wasn’t waiting for her to explain. From all she’d seen, he was a good guy. It was possible he was sitting there to provide a sympathetic ear. But she didn’t want to talk. Instead, she let her eyes wander around his apartment, which was even smaller than hers.

Funny, the room was done in grey and tan, like the exterior of the building. Grey walls, tan rug, grey sofa, tan chairs. Unlike the exterior, there were splashes of blue and green, which added some human warmth. Hanging on the walls was evidence that a music lover lived here – a couple of framed album covers by performers she didn’t recognize, along with an old acoustic guitar and a brass Zildjian crash cymbal.

He cleared his throat softly as if alerting her that he was about to speak.

“You know,” he began, his voice reminding her of a cup of honey lavender tea, “when I first saw you, I mistook you for Natalie. You don’t truly look alike, but you both have long blonde hair, although hers is darker.”

She lifted her glass, needing to wet her throat.

“Then,” he went on, “I had you pegged for a burglar who’d broken into Natalie’s apartment. But you stomped around trying to figure out where you were rather than escaping with your haul, so I tossed the burglar theory. Next, I was convinced you must have mental problems. You were doing some crazy stuff, like touching my arm as if checking to see if I was real, and then there was all that business about the Triple Vee.” He paused, gauging her reaction. “I discarded that theory too. My gut tells me you’re sane, that something genuinely weird happened to you.” He chuckled. “Although, who knows, I could be wrong.”

A unique time travel romance

With her star rising and her rock band about to hit the big time, Carly Munro is infuriated to find herself whisked thirty years into the future. Her band needs her. So does her guitarist boyfriend – her partner in the band. But the doorway that transported her to 2054 seems to be a one-way street.

A guy named Ian takes her in and becomes her ally as she tries find her way home. They discover her trip through time may have been more than just a random accident of nature. There’s something suspicious about how it all went down. Stuck in the future, she can’t help feeling that her life has been stolen.

When Carly and Ian develop feelings for one another, it comes as bad news since she has no intention of giving up the music career she worked so hard to build.

To her ears, the pop music of 2054 sounds like it’s straight off an Artificial Intelligence production line. Which is one more reason she’s determined to find her way home so she can reclaim her life in a time when “real” music is valued.

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Author bio:

Connie Lacy writes fast-paced novels about gutsy young women struggling with moral dilemmas and life-changing decisions, all while falling in love. She writes speculative fiction, time travel and historical fiction.

She worked for many years as a radio news anchor and reporter. It’s not surprising that many of her books feature journalists. Some of her books have themes of social justice and women’s rights.

She loves beautiful old trees, sparkling rivers and learning about the history of our forebears, recent and ancient. She’s also fascinated by the idea of time travel.

She and her husband live in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.