{"id":7612,"date":"2014-04-01T00:01:33","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T05:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=7612"},"modified":"2014-03-07T13:00:38","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T18:00:38","slug":"atozchallenge-shadow-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=7612","title":{"rendered":"#AtoZChallenge – A is for A SHADOW IN THE PAST"},"content":{"rendered":"

A SHADOW IN THE PAST<\/h1>\n

a debut novel by Melanie Robertson-King – aka moi.<\/p>\n

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Blurb:<\/strong>
\nWhen a contemporary teen is transported back through time to the Victorian era, she becomes A Shadow in the Past\u2026<\/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

A Shadow in the Past<\/strong> <\/span>is available as a paperback from Amazon, Chapters, and local bricks ‘n mortar bookstores.<\/p>\n

If you’d prefer to buy it as an ebook, all you have to do is click on the logo of your choice to download it. The link for all the amazon domains is the same, you just have to change the .co.uk to your own.<\/p>\n

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So what are you waiting for? It’s your opportunity to get a great read in print or ebook format!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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