Willow Manor — Jacqueline Varlotta

Willow Manor. A southern plantation endless and frozen in time.......... The 21st century...... Willowmina Phipps needs a change. Popular historical fiction writer Willowmina Phipps needs to escape the hectic, fast paced publicity of her writing career and her well meaning but interfering family who bombard her with an endless parade of men they think she needs to be 'complete'. Forget the fact that she is already ' COMPLETE ', SUCCESSFUL and HAPPY! She is perfectly fine just the way she is. She has her successful writing career and her single status as an independent woman. She just needs a break from the publicity to write her new Novel 'Hidden Discretion' in peace. Leaving behind the hectic publicity she needs a break from, and the family that drives her crazy, Willowmina moves to Charleston South Carolina on the banks of the Ashley River. Back to her southern roots and her grandma Tillie who still resides in Charleston's old town. Drawn to a southern plantation that bears her name, Willowmina falls in love with the centuries old plantation and purchases the manor and the grounds it stands on ready to get down to the business of writing her new novel. But the plantation holds a secret that has been frozen in time for over two centuries since the civil war. A secret that brings to life the 'gift' she has tried to deny for most of her entire life, and the peace and quiet she was looking for to write in peace is blown away....... The Past. The Civil War ...... Drake Treymore has everything he could ever want in life. A beautiful wife, a new baby on the way, and a peaceful, successful existence on a plantation he was more than ready to begin. Until the civil war and the loss of his young wife changed everything. Heartbroken and finding himself alone in 1862, two years into the civil war, Drake's life is shattered. The world he had known no longer exists and he is grief stricken and surrounded by chaos in a country that has become torn apart. Trying to cope with the loss of his young wife and fight for a cause he has always believed in his entire life, Drake finds himself a southerner torn in a direction against his own. A fight he has been involved in even before the death of his wife. But unexpected. unexplainable, other worldly occurrences find him confronted by a young woman whom he cannot escape nor understand, and brings to light something about his deceased wife he never knew...... As if he needed the complication of this in his life, during a civil war and a broken heart that has torn his life apart.... The face a young woman from another century that is slowly overshadowing the memories of his deceased wife's.... But he finds himself, and his soul slowly healing and becoming whole again despite his inner conflicts of fighting to keep his wife's memory alive, while fighting for a cause he believes in with every fiber of his being. Slowly, a little at a time. Like the country and the cause he fights for, Drake is beginning anew......... Two worlds clash against all odds, against all reason, when a doorway is opened up that throws two different centuries together bringing the past and the future colliding.... Are you brave enough to step inside Willow Manor.....?