In
the time travels I’ve written, the heroine always travels back in time. Whether
she is stuck there, or can bounce back and forth, depends on the story. But the
fact that she knows things the hero doesn’t can lead to some interesting
conversations.

In
INDIGO BAY, dated 1850, (http://wwwimajinnbooks.com)
Logan comments to Michaela, “And I suppose next you’ll tell me you should have
the right to vote. That will never happen.”
Things
that haven’t been invented yet, or have particular significance in one century
or the other, are always fun to incorporate into a story. Ellie, in PROSPECTING
FOR LOVE (Books We Love) is discovered with nail polish on her toes, which only
the “working girls” at the salon would do. She finds “real junk food” in the
form of potato chips and Van Camp’s Pork and Beans in the general store in 1850,
believing things like that had only been invented in her lifetime. The opposite
side of the coin is that she doesn’t know how to cook without a microwave or
start a fire in the stove.

Now that being said, I
can have different rules for different books. For example, the methods of
taking the heroine back in time are very different in each of my four books.
Then, in three of my stories, whatever the heroines had on their person
traveled through time with them. However, in INDIGO BAY, the only things that
went through the portal were what already existed in 1850. Mica quickly
discovered she couldn’t wear a polyester blend into the past. It simply
disappeared!
The
real climax for a time travel isn’t finding the treasure or solving the
mystery, but it’s whether the heroine and hero stay together. Since my
heroine didn’t have a choice when she accidently went through time, I do give her
a choice as to whether she stays. There has to be a point where either the
opportunity or the threat of “transportation” exists, so my heroine has a free
choice in her future. Whether she takes it, and whether the hero can stay with her,
either in his time or hers, would be giving away the endings! I hope, instead,
that you grab a time travel and stay up late reading to find out.
Indigo Bay is available through ImaJinn Books, and the
other three are instantly available as downloads at http://bookswelove.net/authors/baldwin-barbara/
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