by Lorraine Beaumont, New Adult Time Travel Romance Author
Treasure is such a solitary word and yet it has the ability
to send your mind racing off on a journey through time and have your heart
chasing right after it.
For the heroine’s in my books, it is no different. In
Forgotten Time, my debut new adult time travel novel, Katherine Jamison is a young
woman temping at a high end auction house, and when she “borrows” an ancient
amulet to wear to a costume ball, she inadvertently sets in motion a chain of
events that result in her waking up in Victorian England betrothed to an
arrogant self-centered earl.
Normally when you hear the word treasure, it will incite
visions of chests of gold, swashbuckling pirates who look like, maybe,
probably, definitely…Johnny Depp.
When in reality treasure does not always come in the form of
gold and it is not always accompanied by pirates, no matter how good looking
they are. Instead, it is merely something found of great value.
While researching these items for my books, I uncovered many
different stories about real treasures that were found by everyday people, like
you and me.
And who doesn’t love a good treasure story? I know I do.
Take for instance the story of a man who walked into a flea
market one day and bought a small oil painting for $50 and found out it was by a
listed artist worth $1 million dollars.
Or the story about a man who went to a Pennsylvania flea
market and bought a dismal painting for $4
And last but not least….at a New York tag sale, someone
bought a ceramic bowl for $3 dollars and it sold at the famed auction house Sotheby’s,
for $2.23 million.
To the auction world however, these items of great value are
not called treasure but instead “Finds.” They come in many different mediums,
shapes and sizes, which in the third book in the Ravenhurst Series, Time to
Remember, my heroine Raven Tremaine discovers while cataloguing the contents of
Ravenhurst estate, a castle with a few
thousand feet of additions that dates back to King Arthur’s realm. She has a
few good “cheats” up her sleeve as well that will enable just about anyone to
be able to discern whether they have stumbled upon a true “Find.”
So the next time you pass a flea market or happen by a tag
sale or auction, why not stop, take a look around and maybe just maybe you will
“Find” a treasure for your very own.
I’ll keep my *fingers crossed* for you.
I hope you enjoyed reading about my little “Finds.”
Happy Hunting and as always, I’m sending out a big THANK YOU
for reading.
Lorraine Beaumont is an international bestselling author. She
writes books with an ensemble cast of characters, with plenty of twists and
turns that will keep you guessing until the very end. She writes the kind of
books she enjoys reading and can only hope that you will enjoy them as well.
There is not much more she enjoys than interacting with her
readers, so if you happen upon a “Find” of your own and want to share, she
would love to hear about it. Who knows,
she may even be able to tell you what it is worth.
The fifth
book in the Ravenhurst series, Now and
Forever will be available soon.
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