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<\/a>Moria\u2019s Time, Book 2 of the TIME Series, by Dayna Leigh Cheser<\/strong><\/p>\nJanelle Grayson is distraught over a troubling vision. Old Agnes MacKendall has seen her infant daughter, Moria, as a young woman, years in the future, traveling afar to a perilous place, fraught with danger.
\nJanelle and her husband, Richard, are both concerned about the vision. They decide to do all they can to prepare their precious little girl for what likely lies ahead for her. It\u2019s a future charged with risk the likes of which, for the unprepared and ordinary person, could spell certain doom.<\/p>\n
So begins Moria\u2019s Time\u2014Book 2 of the TIME Series<\/strong>.<\/p>\n At six-years old, Moria starts to learn about her heritage. Like her mother, Moria is a MacKendall. The women of this Scots clan have unusual powers including, among many other skills, natural medicine\u2014which Janelle soon discovers is Moria\u2019s special and strongest gift. Richard agrees with Janelle that she should train Moria, focusing on, and nurturing, her rare strengths in preparing for her future. By the time she\u2019s a teen, Moria is a talented natural healer.<\/p>\n At fourteen, Moria meets Elizabeth Blackwell who befriends and mentors Moria, guiding her through the long and arduous journey to her goal of becoming a doctor.<\/p>\n Later, while visiting family in England, Moria meets Florence Nightingale\u2014who will figure significantly in her life in the future. The family also meets Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.<\/p>\n Later, Miss Nightingale summons Moria to London, where she works at a charity hospital and meets Dr. Simon Hensley.<\/p>\n Moria becomes one of the first 38 nurses bound for Scutari, Turkey with Miss Nightingale. Dr. Hensley, in love with Moria, follows her, much to her chagrin, but she\u2019s skittish\u2014about men, relationships, anything and anyone that might distract her from the challenge of being a woman daring to want a career in the male-dominated field of medicine\u2014and, so \u2026 she rebuffs him.<\/p>\n At home for a visit, Moria is overjoyed to reconnect with her twin sister, Adelle, and meets her beau, Walter. He and Adelle convince Moria that Dr. Hensley isn\u2019t the enemy. He may well be the one to protect her from the men she fears. Back in Turkey, Moria and Dr. Hensley work things out.<\/p>\n Simon and Moria return to London after the war. At Devonwood, the Grayson family estate, Moria\u2019s Grandmother convinces Moria can marry Simon and not endanger her future. Simon proposes; Moria accepts. The twins plan a double wedding.<\/p>\n After the wedding, Simon and Moria visit medical schools for interviews. Moria is turned away from school after school, simply because she\u2019s woman. Finally, a school in Pennsylvania accepts Moria who graduates at the top of her class.<\/p>\n Does Moria have the right to impose what her needs on Simon? How long will Simon put his life on hold while she pursues hers? Do they really want to open a practice? As doctors, is a practice all that\u2019s available to them? There are so many questions, and too few answers.<\/p>\n ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/p>\n About the Author<\/strong><\/p>\n My father, a school teacher\/reading specialist, started teaching me to read after story-time one night when I was four years old. I\u2019d stopped him mid-story to ask how he was able to say the same thing every time he read that story to me. My lessons started that night, beginning a life-long love affair with books\u2014and for that, I am grateful.<\/p>\n The short stories I wrote in junior high school entertained my peers \u2013 and the occasional teacher who intercepted them in their travels. At the high school level, one English class assignment was to write an autobiography. In the teacher-specified chapter entitled \u2018Future Plans\u2019, being a published writer topped the list. I can\u2019t remember not wanting to write.<\/p>\n After a college professor told me I \u2018couldn\u2019t write my way out of a paper bag,\u2019 I stopped writing for years. It was not until the late 1970s, when I wrote an article for the now-defunct World Radio News (San Diego, CA), that my writing gene was reactivated. The article was about our amateur radio club providing communications for a March of Dimes Walk-a-thon. Seven of the twenty pictures my husband submitted with my article were used.<\/p>\n In early 2002, between jobs and wanting to write seriously, I obtained a third-shift position as a gated-community security officer and used the \u2018free time\u2019 to write what became Janelle\u2019s Time. When the draft was complete, it went on the shelf. At that time, the industry was shifting from the Post Office to the internet \u2013 a very confusing time! In 2009, when I started my Twitter page, @Writers_Cafe, the WIP came off the shelf. What I\u2019ve learned from my (now) 19,000 followers is prodigious \u2013 I feel like I\u2019ve earned a degree! By August 2011, it was ready\u2014at last\u2014for submission.<\/p>\n @RileyCarney, a Colorado teen, and prolific YA fantasy author, who heads her own non-profit literacy project moved me to write an article about her. Never officially published, countless people have seen the article, thanks to Twitter retweets and some carefully chosen email inboxes.<\/p>\n On New Year\u2019s Day, 2010, my shiny new blog, A Place for Writers, went \u2018live.\u2019 It evolved into a combination chronicle of my writing journey and helpful posts on publishing industry topics.<\/p>\n In the fall of 2011, I added \u2018DIY Interviews\u2019 to my blog (see the \u2018DIY Interviews\u2019 tab of my website for details on doing an interview). Not a primary task in the overall scheme of things, over fifty authors have submitted interviews to date.<\/p>\n Janelle\u2019s Time is book one of my \u2018TIME Series\u2019 and was published in July of 2012. Book two, Moria\u2019s Time, was my winning NaNoWriMo project for 2011. It\u2019s now complete and will be released in mid-August of 2013. There are three more books in the series: Adelle\u2019s Time (my winning 2012 NaNo project), Logan\u2019s Time, and Clarissa\u2019s Time (my 2013 NaNo project for 2013).<\/p>\n In September of 2012, I switched from my blog A Place for Writers, and went to a full website: www.DaynaLCheser.com<\/a>. With thirty pages, my new blog, \u2018Posts by Dayna,\u2019 is there now, along with \u2018DIY Interviews,\u2019 and extensive information about the \u2018TIME Series.\u2019<\/p>\n My husband, Pete, and I have been married for forty-five years\u2014no children\u2014and have lived in Southwest Florida for over twenty years, originally hailing from New England.<\/p>\n You can find\/follow Julie at these links…<\/p>\n Website: Dayna L Cheser<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Moria’s Time Moria\u2019s Time, Book 2 of the TIME Series, by Dayna Leigh Cheser Janelle Grayson is distraught over a troubling vision. Old Agnes MacKendall has seen her infant daughter, Moria, as a young woman, years in the future, traveling afar to a perilous place, fraught with danger. Janelle and her husband, Richard, are both … Continue reading Moria’s Time by Dayna Leigh Cheser<\/span> <\/a>My mother, a non-fiction author, two brothers\u2014one as a newspaper editor, the other, a copywriter\u2014and a sister, a church newsletter editor, prove that clearly, writing \u2018runs in my family\u2019. Much of what I\u2019ve written over the years was never published \u2013 much of it never shared with anyone.<\/p>\n
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