(Intro Set) BY LOVE BETRAYED: RECOMPENSE 1 & 2 (Timekept Series I): Casey's Story---Book 1: Holiday Gift & Time Shift 1: Eclipse

Two (2) books for one (1) Introductory Set
Installments #1: Holiday Gift, and #2: Eclipse
Casey's Story begins. . .

PRAISE FOR the first installment of BY LOVE BETRAYED:RECOMPENSE 1 (Timekept Series I) Book 1: Casey’s Story---Holiday Gift:

This is too easy a read. It flows well. This is the type of book I would read on the bus or train and to and from work. Before bed would be another option---in all cases a chapter could be done at a time and you would not feel like you left off in a bad spot on a page or plot wise. ---B.R., Retiree

PRAISE FOR the second installment of BY LOVE BETRAYED: RECOMPENSE 2 (Timekept Series I) Time Shift 1: Casey's Story---Eclipse:

I love the story line! This is a beautiful and encompassing holiday novel. For romance enthusiasts the heat and the heart throbbing suspense of intimate love with a mysterious man who is one’s own husband comes as a surprise. One of the big messages in this novel is that we should try to look at our situation in life with a new and fresh perspective---I cannot wait to read the next novel! ---D.Y.W., Adjunct

LOS ANGELES, 2014: Casey O'Sullivan Sterling thought she had put her painful past to rest, but when she comes home early from her athletic training club on All Hallows Eve, and opens the door to her bedroom, she finds her husband, Steven, in the clinches with her best friend, Anita. Betrayed by love for the last time, she walks out, leaving "everything, and nothing" behind, and vows never again to trust
anyone. If she can't trust her father, mother, husband, or best friend, who can she trust?

Eager to begin a new life, she decides to outrace a coming storm, but while driving, she loses control of the wheel and plunges over a seaside cliff. Her car is struck by lightning on its way down to the crashing waves and she is catapulted almost two hundred years into the past . . .

SCHUYLKILL RIVER VALLEY, 1824: Casey is "reborn" in the body of Elizabeth Wyckham Gregory, who has just died in childbirth. To her intense dismay, Casey learns that as Elizabeth, she is married to a successful merchantman, Randal Gregory; that she has two children, Essie and Michael; and that she is
embroiled in an affair with Gregory's best friend and business partner, Philip Mallory---while Gregory is finding his own comfort in the arms of a gypsy woman, Maeve.

With increasing horror, Casey discovers through terrifying experience that she begins to fade into nothingness when she becomes too emotionally overwrought. How can she ever hope to survive in her altered reality without ceasing to exist?

EXCERPT: What is happening to me? Her bemused question remained unasked---his darkly smoldering eyes gripped her fascinated stare, refusing to release her.

"Elizabeth?" Softer now, his voice was a soothing caress stroking her perceptions, awakening unsought visions of night embraces and tangled sheets.

Casey shook her head, trying to clear her mind. "I. . .I seem to be a bit confused at the moment." Her throaty whisper---a thin, silken thread---reached out to him, binding them together.

Distracted, her eyes slipped from his to follow the high-bridged aquiline nose that plunged from his thickly arched brows to his exquisitely contoured lips---teasing lips, both alluring and infuriating, strong and virile---just made for kissing.

She wet her own lips with a quick flick of her tongue, uncomfortably aware of the warm flush prickling upward from her midsection and threatening to overpower her face.

Enthralled, and scarcely breathing, she watched his mouth twist into a wry smile---but when he spoke, his careful words were sheathed in fine spun satin---

"How many doctors have had the privilege of tending a patient who has returned from the dead?"

Casey's Story continues. . .

There is more to come, and Casey's Story will continue. . .