As Time Goes By by Lynn Kurland

Harriet Brewster has a simple goal: become a mystery writer. Her caveat? Her stories can’t contain any blood, gore, or paranormal ridiculousness. She’s certain she’ll be most comfortable penning a series starring a few mischievous tabbies in a bookstore where many of the volumes have been mysteriously misshelved. But when the chance to hop on a plane to England and attend a writer’s conference featuring her favorite mystery author, the possibly geriatric but insanely talented TD Piaget, lands right in her lap, what can she do but go? She has a carefully curated list of Possible Perils to be Found in Quaint English Villages in her notebook, some extra dental floss in her backpack, and her parents’ rented cottage to go hide in if things get out of hand. What she absolutely doesn’t expect is to discover that TD Piaget is a gorgeous, thirty-something hunk with a lovely pair of gray eyes and a killer smile. She also hasn’t counted on his being more than he seems—or someone else entirely—but she’s nothing if not determined to solve the mystery of him. Samuel de Piaget is up to his eyeballs in drama: a show in Stratford going sideways, match-making ghosts infesting his kitchen, and being bamboozled into pretending to be his twin brother at a mystery writer’s conference. He’s prepared to handle all sorts of dodgy paranormal situations in any number of centuries, but he’s convinced that even a brief stay in that nest of murdery plotters will spell his doom. Only a meet-cute behind a ficus tree leaves him looking at Harriet the Faery Maiden and finding himself thoroughly smitten. But time and events aren’t through with Sam and Harriet—or several others in their little orbit—and romantic doings in a pair of centuries are absolutely waiting in the wings to go onstage . . . because the play’s the thing, isn't it? The only question that remains is whether or not a perfect happily-ever-after is destined for the end of Act III . . . Read more