Thank you so much for inviting me to
kick off time travel romance month! I
write western time travel romance as well as strictly western historical
romance. What I hear from a lot of readers is that they are hesitant to read
time travel books because of the time travel aspect! If they give my time travels a try, I usually
hear that they were pleasantly surprised, which is always nice to hear.
Personally, I love the idea of time
travel. Mixing modern mindsets with old- fashioned values can be so much fun,
especially when it involves romance. I hadn’t actually read more than one or
two time travel romances when I wrote my first book, which combined my love of
Yellowstone National Park with the notion of traveling back in time. That book
turned into an entire series, and I loved writing the genre so much, I decided
to write another time travel series, which combined my love of time travel and
my fascination with the old west.
The Second Chances Time Travel Romance Series
has had various settings – on a wagon train to Oregon, on a Montana horse
ranch, and in modern-day Montana. The idea for a second chances series came
about when I considered what it would be like to go back in time (or forward in
time) to change something about your life – anything from unfortunate
circumstances to bad choices. What if someone granted you the ability to make
things right, or to travel down a different path? What
if we could have a fresh start? A new beginning? What if it meant leaving
everything behind that you've known?
However, that second chance had to come
with a price, namely the character had to complete some sort of task in a
different time in order to be granted a do-over to straighten out his or her
life. Then I threw in some romance to make it even more challenging for the
characters, and their decisions would be even harder. What were they willing to
do, or give up, for true love?
The series is planned as a set of
standalone books, with the common thread being a mysterious character who
grants second chances to people who have lost their way. Throughout the series,
this character experiences his own character growth as he seeks to understand
the motivations of the people he’s been assigned to grant second chances to,
especially when it comes to the notion of love and romance. He is known as
Reverend Johnson because he appears mostly as a reverend, but could take on
just about any role as it suits him to meet the people to whom he grants second
chances.
At the moment, there are three books in
the series – Come Home to Me, which was a Laramie Award winner in 2014, Ain’t
No Angel, and Diamond in the Dust, a RONE finalist
and Honorable Mention in time travel romance in 2015. A fourth book is in the planning stages.
Thank you for reading about my Second Chance Time Travel Romance Series. ~ Peggy
Peggy L
Henderson
Western
Historical and Time Travel Romance
“Where Adventure Awaits and Love is Timeless”
Award-Winning Author of:
Yellowstone Romance Series
Teton Romance Trilogy
Second Chances Time Travel
Romance Series
Blemished Brides Western
Historical Romance Series
Wilderness Brides
Historical Romance Series
4 comments:
Hi, Peggy,
I've never read a time-travel western! I love time-travel stories, and your second chance series sounds like one I'd like. I'll put the first book on my Nook! How interesting to have the character giving out the second chances be in each book. Looking forward to reading that "Come Home to Me".
I love Time Travel stories and Western Romance, so I know I'll love your books! Having that ongoing character is an awesome, fresh idea. Way to go!
Thank you, Diana. I hope you enjoy. As the series has evolved, readers have been more and more curious about this character, to the point where I've set it up that HE might be in need of his own second chance. So, we'll see...
Sarah, that is one of the reasons I meshed the two - I love time travel and western romance. It seemed like a great blend! :D
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