From Now On Juniper Grove Book Tour

Title: From Now On

Series:  It’s About Time Series #2

Author:  Susan A. Royal

Published:  May 23rd, 2014

Publisher:   MuseItUp

Word Count:  approx. 90,000

Genre:  Time Travel Adventure Romance

Content Warning:  Mild Sexual Content

Synopsis:

Erin and Griffin’s happy reunion is short-lived when Isobeil sends him on a mission to mysterious Manx Island soon after their arrival in his world. Griffin asks for Erin’s hand in marriage and promises they’ll marry when he returns, but he doesn’t come back in the allotted time. Erin discovers Isobeil isn’t at all concerned he is missing. In fact she plans to use Griffin’s absence to send Erin back to her own time.

Erin’s old friend, Arvo, helps her sneak out of the castle. Together with his squire they travel to Griffin’s childhood home, seeking help from Griffin’s trusted friend, Sir Edevane. Erin and Griffin’s sister, Kat, share a touching moment before she is summoned by Griffin’s mother, Lady Gwyneth. After an uneasy confrontation, Gwyneth wishes Erin and Edevane Godspeed, sending them on their way. At a tavern along the way, they meet Rhylie and Sage, orphaned sisters who ask to travel with them to Swansea.

After they arrive in the port city, they make arrangements with Captain Akin for passage to Manx Island. Once they set sail, Erin discovers unexpected passengers. Against her mother’s wishes, Kat has followed them. Also aboard are Rhylie and Sage, on their way home to Manx Island.

They find Griffin’s horse, Bayard, running loose on the beach. Captain Akin tells them the vines tangled in his bridle grow only in Ballaugh Curragh, which is on the other side of the island, so they head in that direction.

When Erin and Bayard get lost in a strange mist, she stumbles upon a herd of pigs, led by a little man called Figg. He takes Erin back to camp. On the way, he admits he’s recently seen Griffin and Bayard in the company of strangers. And Griffin was being held against his will. Figg offers Erin his help.

At a small village on their way, they discover the strangers passed through days before. They are caught in a freak snowstorm and take shelter for the night in the ruins of an old church, where Erin glimpses a ghost keeping watch at a grave. That night she dreams of the woman and learns why she haunts the graveyard.

Armed mercenaries capture Erin and the others and take them to a hidden camp where Erin is shocked to discover her brother Aidan is the man in charge. He is under orders to level Ballaugh Curragh if necessary to keep H.G. Hammond, a power hungry murderer, from activating a device to set up his own empire in this time. She is even more determined to find Griffin while there’s still time. Rhylie and Sage help them escape and lead them to their childhood home outside Kirk Michael, where Rhylie tells the story of their father and mother and how they met.

Aidan catches up with them, and when his men disobey his orders, Aidan sends them back to their own time. Erin talks her brother into joining them. He shocked to discover Rhylie and Sage are his daughters. He realizes he’s got to find some other way to deal with Hammond. It’s one thing to sacrifice his life, but another thing altogether when it involves his family.

Iain is killed when a small group goes to scout out Hammond’s camp. They decide to strike immediately or lose the advantage of surprise. Once they arrive, Aidan sets off an explosion to confuse Hammond’s men and goes in to disarm the device. While he’s doing that, Erin finds Griffin alive, but trapped in the cellar of a building. She manages to save him before it caves in completely. Aidan is able to disable the device and fails to catch Hammond who escapes, but not before Akin can follow him to whatever world he is going.

Everyone returns to Lady Gwyneth’s manor. Erin and Griffin are reunited at last and their marriage takes place. Aidan manages to arrive in time to walk his sister down the aisle. After the ceremony Erin is stunned when Aidan approaches with two of the guests and asks Erin if she recognizes Dad and Mom.

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Excerpt:

I am a stranger in this world, even though I’ve traveled this way before.

Fate and not design brought me the first time. It hurled me into a distant future, with no idea how or why, taking me from an existence dependent upon modern technology to a place where people fear such things and those who use them. While searching for my way home from this harsh and sometimes violent world, my admiration for its inhabitants who valued honor and duty above all else grew into admiration and respect. I found myself drawn to one in particular, a man who saved me more than once. Only I never expected to fall in love with him.

Torn between my feelings and a longing for home, I returned to my time with only vague memories of my experience. My life went back to normal, but part of me sensed the loss of something more precious than anything I’d regained. Until one day, I saw him again.

This time I’ve come by choice, and it is where I’m going to stay.

Fate willing.

About the Author:

Born in west Texas and raised in south Texas, Susan makes her home in a 100-year-old farmhouse in a small east Texas town that comes complete with a female ghost who has been known to harmonize with her son when he plays guitar.

Susan is married and the mother of six (she counts her children’s spouses as her own) and five grandchildren who are all unique and very special. Her family is rich with characters, both past and present. Her grandmother shared stories of living on a farm in Oklahoma Territory with three sisters and three brothers and working as a telephone operator in the early 20th century. Her father told her about growing up in San Antonio in the depression, and she experienced being a teenager during WWII through her mother’s eyes.

Susan loves to take her readers through all kinds of adventures with liberal doses of romance. Her latest book is From Now On, a time travel adventure/romance. It’s the stand-alone sequel to Not Long Ago in her It’s About Time series. In My Own Shadow is a Fantasy adventure/romance. Look for her books at MuseItUp/Amazon/B&N. Odin’s Spear, one of her short stories is featured in a Quests, Curses, and Vengeance anthology, Martinus Publishing, available on Amazon.

 Guest post,

If your book had a soundtrack, what songs would we hear playing on it? Feel free to include links to YouTube videos!

     To begin with, let me say that music has always been a large part of my life. I cannot imagine going through life without being able to experience all kinds of music. It lifts me up, it soothes and comforts me. It helps get me ready to face my day. I can experience every emotion. So naturally, I surround myself with music whenever I write.

     I’m fortunate to come from a musical family. My husband studied piano and plays guitar. My kids are musical. My youngest son taught himself to play guitar. He composes and plays the music and my daughter creates all the trailers.

     This is the trailer they created for In My Own Shadow, a young adult fantasy

    http://youtu.be/Wbg8Z-12ojY

They also collaborated on the video for Not Long Ago, the first book it my It’s about Time series. And they nailed it.  They haven’t done the trailer for From Now On yet, but I know it will be just as good.

     http://youtu.be/vOIQVdWUigU

    

     The soundtrack for From Now On would have music like Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber for the touching scenes.

       

 http://youtu.be/cW1E1ig19cs
 

This would be perfect for this passage in the book:

     We met the wind blowing inland across the waves, bringing with it the smell of the shore and the lonely cries of the sea gulls. Across the sea of blue an indistinct sliver of land could be seen separating the water from the sky. I closed my eyes and inhaled the same sweet air Griffin had breathed when he

rode this way not long ago. Had he carried me with him in his thoughts when he stood here? Was he thinking of me now? My throat tightened, and a silent prayer echoed through my head.

Help me find him. And let him be all right. Please.

Or this one:

The dark outline of the shore on the horizon drew my attention, but the sound of someone singing made me shift my focus to a slight dark figure, silhouetted against the ship rails. Rhylie clung to the rigging and sang, her strong, clear voice ringing out across the ship.

I have wandered far from my home.

I’ve nowhere to call my own.

No place to lay me down

No pillow for my head.

My eyes cry a little.

My heart sighs a little.

And I die a little

Each day.

The sailors ceased their work and listened. Each man’s face reflected sadness and longing as though thinking about whatever faraway place he called home.

Long to be where I belong

In the place I left behind

I can see it in my heart

And it tears me apart.

My soul aches a little

My body shakes a little

And I break a little

Each day.

How was it possible for simple words to be so beautiful and so achingly sad at the same time? Tears filled my eyes, while my chest tightened with emotion. In my heart, I knew what Rhylie must have been feeling. Yet, she lifted her voice and released the last sweet notes to soar in the sky like the seabirds above the waves. Her eyes were riveted on the shrouded island, watching as we drew closer.

 

Dark mysterious Manx Island could be depicted by The Dusty Attic.

   http://youtu.be/7iVudI95Ebc

Everloving by Moby would be perfect to show Erin and the others, riding on horseback across the island, searching for Griffin.

     http://youtu.be/zTuNS7ElxnA

Music from Last of the Mohicans would work for the action scenes.

     http://youtu.be/2pCv7k_Hzvg

 This has been fun. I tend to write in scenes, so of course I have music in mind.   

     

    

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Giveaway Details:

There is a tour wide giveaway. Prizes include the following:

One winner will receive an ecopy of Not Long Ago and From Now On, the first two books in the It’s About Time series.

Giveaway is International.

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