About This Book
The master storyteller of Science Fiction and romance has done it again! Shalimar, by author Audrey Peyton, is a magical tale of love's triumphs through the ages. In 1587, Mary Queen of Scots is about to be beheaded. As she painfully rests her head on the executioner's block, destiny intervenes when two people from the future whisk Mary away in a time machine to the year 2022 where she's installed in a stately English mansion, Shalimar. Sinclair Singleton and Travis Emerson, raised together as children, have slavishly built a time machine over two decades of hard work. The two are partners in heroism and in a love they are too reticent to acknowledge to each other for fear of rejection. After the rescue of Mary Queen of Scots, Travis has a torrid affair with the flirtatious queen from the 16th century. However, he and Sinclair have other rescues to attempt. To name a few: prostitutes from the Jack-the Ripper era in 1888 London; a VIP almost ready to board flight 11 from Logan Airport in Boston on September 11, 2001; a trainload of Jewish prisoners being transported by Nazi guards to a 1942 concentration camp in Germany; and a special request from England's Prince Charles who begs the just-about-ready-to-quit time travelers to Please do just one more rescue. It would mean so much to my family, especially Her Majesty. Peyton's narrative is superb and her dialogue shines brilliantly with richly textured and engaging characters while deftly building suspense as she interweaves past, present and future. Audrey Peyton has written three Harlequin romantic suspense novels, a disaster novel, Ashes; and a biography of former MGM lion trainer Floyd Humestonand his famous lion Fagan. She has recently completed her next novel, Like a Diamond in the Sky, a romantic suspense story set in England over a snowy Christmas holiday. She lives in California.
