TItle: Wishing Cross Station
Author: February Grace
Genre: Fantasy
A dark fantasy romance from the author of
GODSPEED and OF STARDUST…
Don’t stay a moment longer than you have to. Don’t say too much. Don’t pollute the timeline.
When nineteen-year-old college library page Keigan Wainwright is sent to pick up a private donation of books for the school’s collection, he has no idea where one of those books will take him, or what it will take from him.
Retracing a powerful man’s footsteps through the past, Keigan finds himself caught in the same dangerous trap: falling in love with a woman he was never meant to know, and uncertain he will ever find his way home.
Don’t stay a moment longer than you have to. Don’t say too much. Don’t pollute the timeline.
When nineteen-year-old college library page Keigan Wainwright is sent to pick up a private donation of books for the school’s collection, he has no idea where one of those books will take him, or what it will take from him.
Retracing a powerful man’s footsteps through the past, Keigan finds himself caught in the same dangerous trap: falling in love with a woman he was never meant to know, and uncertain he will ever find his way home.
Author Bio
February Grace is an author, poet, and artist
from Southeast Michigan. In previous novels, she has introduced readers to
characters with clockwork hearts, told of romantic modern-day fairy godparents,
and reimagined a legend, centuries old. Now, in her fifth novel with Booktrope,
readers will board the special at WISHING CROSS STATION and embark on a trip
through time. She is more than mildly obsessed with clocks, music, colors,
meteor showers, and steam engines.
The wail and
cry of the whistle. The puff of the engine. The clang of the bell and grinding
screech of the brakes… all combined with the roar of a biting winter wind.
No matter how
old I live to be, I will never forget that particular cacophony, an orchestra tuning
up in preparation for a command performance. When I heard her approach, I knew
the journey I was about to take would change me— no matter where I ended up
when it was
over.
She was
beautiful, dark, and strong, with powerful legs beneath her as she rode the
rails into the station. Plumes of white and grey rose around her as she moved,
fluttering like angel’s wings. The smell of the smoke was a singular aroma.
Coal, fire, and heat all combined to intoxicate a man, to loosen the ideas in his
head from solid form into threads meant to be spun into the foolishness of
dreams.
She was a
vixen, a siren, a savior, and damnation all in one. All things that beckon men
to follow her anywhere, do anything to finally reach ecstasy before demise.
She was one of
a kind, this engine, and her name was Aurelia Belle.
She’s silent;
the echoes of her glory only replay in my head. How clear, how deafening, how
devastating, still.
She is restored
now, sleeping in the roundhouse because the Historical Park is closed for the
season. What happened to the version of the engine that took me on the voyage
of a lifetime, I may never know.
I know just
this: writing it down is the only way for me to even begin to come to terms
with the fact it happened.
It did
really happen, of this I am certain, because damn it, I was there.
It doesn’t
matter now if anyone else knows, or believes.
I know, I
believe, and I will always remember.
It started as
the most significant things in life do: in the middle of an ordinary weekday
afternoon.
Links
Author Website: http://februarywriter.blogspot.be/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FebruaryGrace
Twitter: @februarygrace
Amazon (Paperback): http://www.amazon.com/Wishing-Cross-Station-February-Grace/dp/1620158434/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1432628660&sr=8-1&keywords=wishing+cross+station
Amazon (Kindle): http://www.amazon.com/Wishing-Cross-Station-February-Grace-ebook/dp/B00XMNYKGM/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=8-1&qid=1432628660
B&N: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/wishing-cross-station-february-grace/1121919713?ean=9781620158432
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