In Her Own Time (The Bean Books, #2), by Christine Potter (GIVEAWAY!)
In Her Own Time
The Bean Books, #2
by Christine Potter
Romance/Time
Travel/Suspense
63K,
Evernight Teen Publishing
Summer 1970: Bean Donohueās sixteen, sheās
finally got a good band together, and sheās crazy in love with her artist
boyfriend Zak.
Sheās also about to get the coolest summer job ever, and her
impossible momās conveniently out of town.
So why does she keep
ending up in 1953ā¦or 1779?
And who's that guy with the black ponytail and
the Kent State t-shirt?
He knows way too much about her. Should Zak
be worriedāor should Bean?
14+ due to
sexuality and adult situations
Excerpt:
Bean found herself alone, just outside the
house. The air was sharp. Tall trees that had just been in full summer leaf
were suddenly bare, and smaller than theyād been seconds before. Bean tried to peer
back in through the kitchen window, but the lights were off, and she couldn't
see anything. She stood in her side yard, sometime in the past. It was
happening againā¦
And It was enough of a shock
that she didnāt even know how she felt. Sheād been glowing from the night
before with Zak, happy to have had Sam pound on her door with music and
laughter. Bean stuck her hands in the pockets of her thin blue cotton robe, and
looked up. The sky looked like early afternoon: pale sunlight behind a thin,
high layer of clouds. In front of her house, underneath the living room windows
stood three overgrown barberry bushes. Bean had never seen them before. The
ground was hard and cold, and she was barefoot.
Alrighty, then. Damn
it. Lately, Bean had been perfectly fine with life in 1970. What
year is this supposed to be? She had no idea.
Zak said love is always why this happens, she thought.
But then she felt the happiness beginning to leak out of her. If Zak were
right, why had she slipped backwards just now? She had a whole June weekend to
spend with him, feeling nothing but loveā¦and now, this.
It made no sense. All she could do was watch, deal, and try to keep warm.
It really was pretty chilly. She tried jogging
in place to warm up, which helped a bit. Her toes were soon numb, though.
After a few minutes, a black car with big, round bumpers pulled into the
driveway and clattered to a halt. There was the rasp of an emergency brake
being set. And Beanās fatherāvery
young, and too thin for his thick, grey winter coatāgot out of the driverās side. Bean put a hand
over her mouth, and watched as he ran urgently around to the passengerās door. He yanked it
open.
āCan you make it?ā Beanās dad called into the
car.
āOf course I can
make it,ā said her motherās voice. A high-heeled
shoe and a nylon stocking-covered leg emerged. Then came the rest of Beanās
mom, wearing a brown tweed overcoat and a floppy green beret. She walked a bit
unsteadily, clutching a bundle of white blankets wrapped around a baby, which
began to wail.
āSh-sh. Sh-sh-sh,ā said Julia as she wobbled up
the walk. She stopped when she got to the front door.
āYou wouldnāt happen to have remembered the
house keys, would you, Tom?ā she called. Tom patted down three pockets in his
coat before something jingled. He rushed a key into the lock. Then he looked
back at the car. Both its front doors now stood wide open, and he sprinted back down the
walk toward them. Bean sucked in her breath hard, taking it all in. Was that
her days-old self,crying, inside the house? Sixteen-year-old Bean felt a little
weepy, too. Itās 1953, then, she thought. Just after my actual
birthday. Wowā¦
The wind blew and she shivered.
And then there was a hand on her
arm.
Book 1 in The Bean Books series
is now available:
Time Runs Away With Her
About the Author:
Christine Potter lives in a small town not far
from the setting of Time Runs Away With
Her, near the mighty Hudson River, in a very old (1740) house with two
ghosts. According to a local ghost
investigator, they are harmless, ājust very old spirits who donāt want to
leave.ā She doesnāt want them to.
Christineās house contains two pipe organs (her
husband is a choir director/organist), two spoiled tom cats, and too many
books. Sheās also a poet, and the author
of two collections of verse, Zero Degrees
at First Light, and Sheltering in
Place. Christine taught English and Creative Writing for years in the
Clarkstown Schools. She DJās free form
rock and roll weekly on Area24radio.com, and plays guitar, dulcimer, and tower
chimes.
All purpose me on FB: https://www.facebook.com/christine.potter.543
Series FB page: https://www.facebook.com/beanstravels/
My blog: http://chrispygal.weebly.com
Twitter: @chrispygal
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chrispygal/
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Giveaway:
$10 ET GC and Ebook copy
Please leave your answer to thee questions in the comments :)
1. Suppose you were my
main character, Bean. What time period would you like to be swept back
into--and why?
2. These books believe
in ghosts. Do you? Ever seen one?
I would love to be swept back in time to when my dad was in college playing sports. I'd love to watch hime in action! I do believe in ghosts, but have never seen one.
ReplyDeleteAww that was so sweet about wanting to go back to see your father. I wasn't thinking that heartfelt! I love reading about the 1800's and the settlement out west - I would love to go back (just for a while) and experience that.
ReplyDeleteI do believe in ghosts and yes I have seen them and felt them first hand!