Today has finally arrived! So many things have been cancelled and changed by 2020, it’s good to see something happen on time. This collection is going to knock your socks off.
It features eight unique and unusual love stories that tackle the tough issues we face every day – racial acceptance or intolerance, whether black, brown, red or yellow, differing religious views, sexuality, family and social values, and so much more.
Let’s look a little closer at Same Time Next Year, my book in the box set.
Same Time Next Year is a novel within a novel.
For three short weeks, Twyla Lancaster was the fairy tale princess who’d found her prince, but just like that, reality ripped them apart. Now, fifty years later, she needs to know why the only man she ever loved broke his promises. As she writes her memoir and learns more about that summer, she realizes things were not what they seemed.
Hormones raced, promises were made, but Twyla left Michael Morrison high and dry, and within weeks, married someone else. Grieving the loss of his parents and her betrayal, he turned his back on love, focusing on his military career. Now, goaded by his sister, he agrees to attend a wedding and reunion, knowing Twyla will be there. It’s time to find out why she lied to him all those years ago.
The moment the star-crossed lovers see one another, love blooms between them, but when Michael discovers Twyla’s secret, he’s devastated. Is love enough to erase fifty years of pain and betrayal?
In this book, I take you back to 1967. It may be a walk down Memory Lane, but many of the things that were part of my reality and Twyla’s were not the best. In 1967, the society was far more closed-minded than it is today, and women’s rights were in their infancy. There was no acceptance of sexual diversity, religious intolerance ran rampant and the disparity between the rich and the poor wasn’t a boundary many could cross.
Twyla, the teenage daughter of rich American protestants, people who can trace their history to the Mayflower pilgrims, falls in love with a poor Irish Catholic Canadian. While Mom’s busy with cards and booze, unsupervised, Twyla enjoys and unprecedented freedom, one that leads to a whole new world of discovery.
But the magic she finds in Michael’s arms is short-lived, when her father’s company goes broke and the family is forced to leave unexpectedly. When Twyla discovers she’s pregnant, she tries to reach Michael, but he never returns her message. To avoid scandal, she turns to her brother’s lover who agrees to marry her.
Now, fifty years later, Twyla wants to know the truth and goes back to the scene of the crime looking for answers. What she finds isn’t what she expected.
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