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Barbara Goodwin has been writing romance novels for five years. A native Californian, she loves dogs, movies, and reading. Her career as a flight attendant with a major U.S. airline gives her unlimited ideas for her novels. Barbara has published five romance novels, four with Cerridwen Press and one with Whiskey Creek Press. She has also written a young adult novel with her nephew. From Dreams To Reality will be published by Cerridwen Press March 19, 2009.

How the Love Beyond Time Series came to be

As I was staring at the bookshelves looking for Christmas romances one holiday season, I realized that I would love to write one of my own. The next year I went to a June wedding in Sisters, Oregon, a beautiful small town on the East side of the Cascade Mountains, and decided to write a western based on that town which is styled after the old west with boardwalks and old-fashioned store fronts.

I finished the 1890s western, No Time For Christmas, and realized I needed to make it a series. My hero, Joshua Forrester had two sons, and the heroine, Adeline Benjamin had two nieces that she’d raised. I knew then that each son and niece needed their own book and decided to write a five book series. My love for time travel stories made it a must that I write these books where each story would take place in a different time period.

As I wrote the ending for No Time For Christmas, I realized it couldn’t be the first book in the series but must be the third. Then I decided that each book should start and end on the same two days no matter how long the hero and heroine were gone in their respective time periods. I chose time periods that I would love to see and researched the history of those times. That helped me develop the story lines for each book. I plugged in my hero and heroine (which I had already written character profiles for) and the rest is…history!

I thoroughly loved writing and researching these books. Book one, No Future Christmas, takes place in 2110 and deals with a corrupt world order. Book two, No Silent Christmas, is about the silent film era and prohibition in 1925. Book four, No Hope For Christmas takes place in 1940 World War II on a real airplane, the Boeing 307 Stratoliner that flew passengers for only one and a half years before it was commissioned for the war effort. I have a real romance with past airplanes where stewardesses made up bunks and catered to their wealthy passengers. Book five, No Diamonds For Christmas, takes place in 1956 on the Queen Mary and has a handsome diamond thief bent on revenge, a cursed diamond and, of course, the haunted Queen Mary!

Enjoy!
Barbara Goodwin

Love Beyond Time Series

No Future Christmas
Book One

Twenty-first century Police officer Mike Forrester can’t believe his eyes. A woman is standing in a glowing tangerine light in the early morning hours after his shift.

He has to see if the vision is real. His hand closes around her wrist and he’s stunned by the hot, intense desire that rushes through him. The world spins and the last thing Mike remembers is the gentle touch of the woman’s hands on his face as she strokes his mouth.

Twenty-second century scientist Shauna Wentworth doesn’t intend to bring Mike Forrester home to her time. But before she can send him back they find themselves in a race against time to uncover a political secret that will rock the world.

Soon the global military police have them listed as number one on their worldwide most wanted list.
While fighting a corrupt world order Mike and Shauna fall deeply in love. Can their love survive between two different worlds?

No Silent Christmas
Book Two

When Firefighter Scott Forrester picks up his brother’s BlackBerry to invite his father for Christmas dinner he hears a high-pitched whine and a tangerine light surrounds him.

In an instant he disappears from the room.

When the color dissipates Scott is standing on a dirt street. Most of the women are dressed in the same, shapeless style from the 1920s. Amid the Barbie-doll dressed women, one stands out. Her long blonde hair and startling blue eyes cause a hot, wild desire to race through Scott. He has never reacted to a woman so intensely before.

Scott finds he’s in 1925, the era of prohibition and gangsters. Until he can get back to his own time he takes the only job offered to him and becomes reluctant silent screen actor.

Scott’s co-star is stunning socialite Maggie Ingram. When a series of accidents almost kill Maggie, Scott begins to suspect matinee idol Carey Chambers. But why would Chambers want Maggie dead? Also, Scott wonders where Chambers gets his illegal liquor.

This is No Silent Christmas for Scott as he navigates the glitz and the glamour of Hollywood in 1925.

No Time for Christmas
Book Three

After losing his wife to a car accident one Christmas season, Joshua Forrester buries his grief in work as a commercial real estate salesman. Twenty years later, and still alone, Joshua is addicted to everything electronic. As he steps out of his condo one morning he’s shocked to find he’s in 1890. His Blackberry doesn’t work, there’s no electricity, and his hometown of Sisters, Oregon looks like a Hollywood movie set from the wild, wild, west days.

But this is no movie.

Adeline Benjamin, the beautiful town spinster, takes him under her wing when he’s thrown in jail for counterfeiting money dated 1980. Joshua is instantly attracted to Addie. Heat burns through him every time he’s near her, but he gains a powerful enemy because of his attraction. Sheriff Hall claims Addie Benjamin as his own and won’t tolerate this stranger taking away his woman.

As Joshua grows to love Addie he must overcome the sheriff’s anger and distrust, accept that he may be on the longest camping trip of his life and find a way to make a living in a time he never thought he’d see.

No Hope for Christmas
Book Four
Coming December 18!

Modern-day flight Attendant Evie Benjamin wants adventure and she gets it when she time travels to 1940. Her first trip, assigned by Transcontinental and Western Air, is to work the first pressurized commercial airplane ever built—the Boeing 307 Stratoliner.

Only the wealthy and the famous can fly the luxury of the “Stratoliner.”

James Jeffries, III owns a worldwide construction company. He also works for MI5 securing information hoping to get the United States to help the British win the war against Germany.

Evie is stunned by her first meeting with James. His voice flows like honey down her spine, calling to her, touching her deep in her soul. When James requests her for a top-secret mission she is plunged into peril and loses her heart in the process. But the secret mission is compromised and Evie and James have to find out who leaked vital information.

How will Evie and James newfound love survive the ravages of time and war amid a pitch-black, nighttime landing, a devastating car accident and other perilous adventures?

No Diamonds for Christmas
Book Five
Coming February 5, 2009!

Beautiful restaurant owner Mary Benjamin time travels to the Queen Mary, circa 1956. When she arrives on the dark ship a masked man rescues her from nearly sliding overboard. At his tender touch an unexpected rush of desire courses through her, weakening her. But will he hurt her?

Accomplished, British jewel thief Gavin MacAfee will do anything to steal the cursed Resurrection Diamond from the Duke of Pemberton. Yet, everything changes for Gavin when he meets Mary under the brilliant stars on the Queen Mary’s deck. A sudden rush of desire and a powerful need for her consumes him.

Mary doesn’t trust Gavin when she meets him without the mask. He’s too cocky, too sure of himself. Soon she finds she’s falling in love with a masked thief who’s tender and kind, yet obviously up to no good.

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