{"id":5523,"date":"2013-03-06T14:53:28","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T19:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=5523"},"modified":"2013-03-06T14:53:28","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T19:53:28","slug":"4-days-11-hours-and-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=5523","title":{"rendered":"4 DAYS, 11 HOURS AND COUNTING&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Until my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/giveaway\/show\/42002-a-shadow-in-the-past\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Goodreads giveaway<\/strong><\/a> for 2 signed copies of <em><strong>A Shadow in the Past<\/strong><\/em> ends!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5203 alignleft\" alt=\"a shadow in the past cover 500x773\" src=\"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/a-shadow-in-the-past-cover-500x773-194x300.jpg\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/a-shadow-in-the-past-cover-500x773-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/a-shadow-in-the-past-cover-500x773.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/>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<p>If you don&#8217;t win, you can always purchase a copy from my publisher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.4rvpublishingcatalog.com\/robertson-king.php\" target=\"_blank\">4RV Publishing<\/a>, amazon.com, .ca, and .co.uk, Barnes &#038; Noble, Chapters\/Coles and some bricks and mortar stores, too.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck to everyone who entered!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until my Goodreads giveaway for 2 signed copies of A Shadow in the Past ends! 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