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Tori Mayhue loved everything about
Tombstone,
its history and fame were her fondest memories of growing up. Maybe
that's why she came back after her marriage ended. Tori was happy when
her Aunt Phoebe invited her to open a photo gallery next door to her
antique shop. After her aunt's death, Tori helped her Uncle Will run the
shop as well as her own, as there were always tourists who were
interested in the history of the town.
No
one seemed to know more about Tombstones history than Uncle Will. When
the position for town historian was open, Tori tried to talk her Uncle
Will into getting the job. Though it seemed that Aaron Templeton had his
eyes on that job. Aaron Templeton had his eyes on a lot of things. He
wanted to get his hands on the building Tori and her Uncle were in, his
plans were to gut it out and put several boutiques in there.
No
one seemed to really know of Will Barcley's arrival into Tombstone.
It was a mystery and the only facts known were that he was found in the
cemetery with a bullet hole in him. He couldn't tell them how he got
there or where he was from. All anyone knew is that he fell in love with
Phoebe and they were happy together.
It
was just about three months since Tori returned to Tombstone and though
she loved creating her art, she felt she still hadn't seemed to capture
the real Tombstone
and wished there was a way she could put more feeling into her work. Her
Aunt Phoebe's good friend, Evelyn Kelly who had the gift of a seer,
suggested that she take Tori in a hypnotic trance back to Tombstone
in the 1880's to see the town the way as it was back then.
With Evelyn's guidance Tori goes under hypnosis and finds that she not
only goes back, but has found the portal that she can drift between the
past and the present. Only it wasn't just a trance, she actually was
back in that era.
On
her second try she meets Wyatt Earp, the man who as a child she had read
about and idolized. Soon Tori was going back again and again to see the
famed lawman and eventually fell in love with him. Somehow events of the
past were parallel to those in the future, yet she wasn't sure how it
could be. That day of the gunfight Tori was back in time and the rumors
that had past down through the generations were there and all the
mysteries were no longer there.
If
she could travel through time why not Uncle Will? Could he really be
someone from the past? And what about Mike Madrid the deputy in town?
His rugged good looks seemed to have all the women in town swooning, but
he seemed to have his mind only on his job.
Ms. Frampton has done a great job on this novel and is one that I have
read more than once. She has given the reader a glimpse of the past,
with such vivid details, one feels that they too have past through that
portal. I enjoyed the book and look forward to more of this authors
work.
Reviewed by Louise Riveiro-Mitchell for The Road to Romance
March 24, 2004 |
