ROAD TRIPS & TIME SLIPS

A rompy road trip romcom, ROAD TRIPS & TIME SLIPS is a delightful blend of Kate Robb’s THIS SPELLS LOVE and Ashley Poston’s THE SEVEN YEAR SLIP, all wrapped up in Lorraine Heath’s tradition of campy misunderstandings and historical meanderings.

After years of disappointing her family of historical interpreters obsessed with the legacy of their famous ancestor, Mary Shelley, Jo Fairchild has built a promising career producing video games. When a failed pitch jeopardizes her job, she’s left to drown her sorrows and fears of imminent firing in a fake olde English pub tucked into a Vegas casino where she crashes into the roguish cos-player with a traumatic brain injury claiming to be Will Cavendish, the third son of a Regency Duke, accidentally brought forward in time from 1819 by a persnickety device powered by lightning. 

Will is adamant that he needs to return to his own time to save his childhood sweetheart from a forced marriage to his best friend’s older brother and, in a true moment of weakness, Jo agrees to help him get back. The only way, however, is a visit to her parents house where her sixth grade science fair project—a working facsimile of Dr. Frankenstein’s lab sits in the attic. As Jo drags Will on a road trip from Las Vegas to Ithaca, NY, he gets a crash course in outlet mall shopping, flaming hot Cheetos, personal massagers, rhinestone-studded heart-shaped sunglasses, and the perils of falling in love with a headstrong, modern woman—all of the necessities and joys of the 21st Century.

But when an accident in the lab sends them both back to the 1800s, they will need to relearn a few hardfought truths about themselves and each other to return to their right place in history—and whether their love is one that can survive the chasm of lost time.