"It was at ten o'clock to-day that the first of all Time Machines began its career. I gave it a last tap, tried all the screws again, put one more drop of oil on the quartz rod, and sat myself in the saddle. I suppose a suicide who holds a pistol to his skull feels much the same wonder at what will come next as I felt then. I took the starting lever in one hand and the stopping one in the other, pressed the first, and almost immediately the second. I seemed to reel; I felt a nightmare sensation of falling; and, looking round, I saw the laboratory exactly as before. Had anything happened? For a moment I suspected that my intellect had tricked me. Then I noted the clock. A moment before, as it seemed, it had stood at a minute or so past ten; now it was nearly half-past three!"
H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
Book 1: She kept the past
buried for 60 years
She buried the past... but it refused to stay there.
Eleanor MacLean has outlived everyone who might have believed her story. She’s in possession of a secret no living person knows. For decades she has carried the impossible weight of years lived in medieval England—a love left behind in the stone corridors of a medieval castle and knowledge of the lost crown jewels of England that no modern woman should possess.
She thought silence was enough. She thought if she simply never said it aloud, the past would stay where she left it.
She was wrong.
When word breaks that the treasure lost by King John in 1216 has been located, Eleanor’s quiet life cracks open. She knows exactly what is buried in that quicksand—because she was there when it was lost.
Now, for the first time in 60 years, Eleanor is going to have to tell the truth.
The year is 1964. One moment she’s laughing with her friend, entirely certain of who she is. The next, she’s lying on the ground at a real medieval battle—with a knight on a white warhorse bearing down on her with a raised sword.
What follows is a sweeping journey into the vivid, dangerous world of medieval England, where the court of King John seethes with betrayal, where loyalty is the rarest currency, and where an ordinary woman must find a way to survive in a world that has no place for her.
And in present-day England, the man with the metal detector is getting closer. Eleanor knows what he is going to find—and what will be missing. Some people, even now, even in this century, will stop at nothing to possess not just the treasure, but the full truth of its history.
Knowledge that only one woman alive holds.
Will her love rewrite history—or destroy her future?
Heir
to the
Hand
Book 2: The Hand is missing;
her future depends on finding it
One wrong turn. Eight centuries between her and home.
When Donna MacLean steps into the time machine, she has a plan: land in medieval England, recover the legendary Hand of Maud, and return to the man she loves. But a split-second accident sends her plunging into the wrong century—alone, disoriented, and hunted by a world that doesn’t know her name.
The Hand of Maud is missing.
Until she finds it, Donna cannot be safe—and she may never find her way back.
In a treacherous world of castles and kings, where one slip in her false identity could unravel everything she’s fought to build, Donna must survive on nothing but her faith, her courage, and the fragile hope that the people she loves are searching for her across time. But the relic is not simply lost: it has been stolen. And those who took it will stop at nothing to keep it.
Heir to the Hand is an epic adventure of clean time travel romance set against the sweeping drama of medieval England—a story of loyalty, sacrifice, and a heart that refuses to give up, no matter what century stands in the way.
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Before The Hand of Maud, there was a betrayal that set the legend in motion. Normandy, 1139: Empress Matilda--affectionately referred to as Maud—is heir to England’s crown. She holds more than a claim to the throne; she carries the
relic known as the Hand of Maud, a golden, bejeweled treasure said to shape dynasties and seal the fate of kings.
But in the cold chambers of power, loyalty is fragile. Allies shift like shadows, oaths are broken, and a single act of
treachery could alter the course of history. Betrayed at the hour she most needed strength, Maud must cling to faith, courage, and the relic itself as her enemies rise against her.
The First Betrayal is the gripping prequel novelette to The Hand of Maud—a sweeping saga of love, destiny, and treachery where past and present collide. Step into the shadows of history and discover the spark that lit the fire.