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‘Auld’ Gordon Eadie<\/h1>\n

While he didn’t play a big role in A Shadow in the Past<\/span><\/em><\/strong> (two mentions in two paragraphs one one page in one chapter), his character was important to the story … and in more ways than one.<\/p>\n

His forename, Gordon, latterly became part of the name of the farm Sarah was born and raised on – Gordonsfield.<\/p>\n

\"Gordon\"<\/a>
descendant chart for Gordon Eadie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And, as you can see from the descendant chart above, produced from Legacy<\/a>, he was Sarah’s 3rd-great-grandfather. If you click on the chart, it will give you a larger image which is readable.<\/p>\n

Not all of the characters appeared in A Shadow in the Past<\/span><\/strong><\/em>, nor will they all appear in the second book in the the series – Shadows From Her Past<\/strong><\/em><\/span> – but I needed to create a family for Sarah that included aunts, uncles, cousins, parents, and grandparents.<\/p>\n

A Shadow in the Past<\/span><\/em> Blurb:<\/strong><\/p>\n

When a contemporary teen is transported back through time to the Victorian era, she becomes A Shadow in the Past\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Nineteen-year-old Sarah Shand finds herself thrust back into the past. There she struggles to keep her real identity from a society that finds her comments and ideas strange and her speech and actions forward, unlike Victorian women. When Sarah verbally confronts confining social practices, including arranged marriages, powerful enemies commit her to a lunatic asylum. After falling in love with the handsome Laird of Weetshill, Robert Robertson, she must decide whether to find her way back to her own time or to remain in the past with him.<\/p>\n

I can’t share the blurb for Shadows From Her Past<\/strong><\/em><\/span> with you yet but when I can, you can read it here.<\/p>\n

For more information on A Shadow in the Past<\/strong><\/em><\/span> and where you can purchase it, visit my website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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