Timeless Secrets A Three Sisters Island Mysteries Book #1
YA Time Travel
Casi MacLean LLC
Oct 1, 2021
Kindle
237
Amazon
Searching for antiques in the North Georgia foothills, the Holloway sisters never expected to discover a bony hand protruding through the ground––or an antique watch that would spiral them through time.
From USA Today and Amazon Best Selling Author, Casi McLean, comes another gripping time travel mystery to keep you hugging the edge of your seat.
To Raine Holloway, the idea of time travel existed only in fiction––until her antique shop search leads her to Abingdon Manor, an abandoned property in the North Georgia foothills. When the old barn loft collapses beneath her feet, the fall reveals an antique watch that changes Raine’s life forever. Determined to discover the owner of a skeletal hand, Raine and her sisters refuse to accept the police chief’s lack of interest in the cold case. They continue to investigate, unaware the watch will assist them by spinning them through time to 1960.
Can Raine and her two sisters unravel the secret of an antique watch’s power, solve the murder, and find their way home –– before Raine becomes the victim buried at Abingdon Manor?
Review By S.C. Principale
Member of the Paranormal Romance Review Team
Hold onto your hat— it may be all you can take with you on a fantastical journey through time.
Raine, Summer, and Meadow are three sisters who have a strong bond. This bond will be challenged in the Georgia foothills where Raine has opened an antique shop. Hunting for antiques in the ruins of an old barn, the girls find an antique watch. It’s still attached to the arm of its owner!
This book would be an incredible mystery if McLean had simply stuck to three sisters trying to convince a disinterested sheriff to focus on a cold case. The girls are determined to find out who is the owner of the watch,and the skeletal arm it is attached to. But McLean pushes the envelope and it turns out to be an excellent decision!
The watch is a chronometer, a time-traveling device. Before the girls know it, they’re back in 1960 on the eve of the presidential election… and the woman they meet has met time-travelers before. In fact, Three Sisters Island is owned by Sandy, and is actually named for the three time travelers themselves!
Ignoring all the twisting confusion of the time travel (and it can be a little bit troubling to follow) the mystery is a powerful hook that will have you flying through the pages. The sisters find that they can “slide” through time, and that time seems to be toying with them, leading them with “holograms” of the mystery woman’s murder. But who is the young teen they see in the visions, and why do some things seem to respond to their presence, while others are unaffected? Why did Jane Doe have to die, and who were the killers that the sisters can hear, but not see? If they could see the killers from sixty years ago, would they have a chance to find justice now?
The time machine opens portals that direct the girls through the steps of this cold case. The case may revolve around buried Confederate gold… or it may have something to do with an illegal voting scam on the eve of the Kennedy/Nixon election. But it might not be a national scandal that will be fatal for a young volunteer. When Raine and her sisters realize their own actions are setting the stage for the abduction they keep witnessing, they know have to remain in the past to prevent the murder. But will their actions save a stranger’s life… in exchange for one of their own?
McLean weaves a deft mystery with well-done sci-fi elements. The best part? There’s another mystery on the horizon! I will definitely read the next one!
This sounds like a fabulous read!! Congrats to Casi!