Keeping Secrets

by Rebecca A. Engel

It has been four years since Jessica Patterson returned from the Victorian Era to the present time. Every day of those four years she had hit the ground finishing high school at the end of her junior year, and entering college with a year's worth of credits from her A.P. classes. Having earned her B.A. in record time, she's on the verge of getting a Master's Degree in Math.Jess has been keeping a secret from everyone she knows for the last few years, and living a life of isolation and loneliness. Then she has an unexpected encounter with someone she doesn't recognize at Alan Brookes, who was responsible for stranding her in the past for forty-five years. She wants nothing to do with him until he asks her if she wants to take another time trip to the past.Her initial answer was no. Then Jess sees a time trip as a chance to save her husband Percy from his death on the Titanic. Even after Alan warns her that if she goes back to a time when her other self was still living in the past, it could mean death for both of them. That doesn't deter her. Saving Percy's life means more to her than her own life.Because Alan has to stay in the present to operate the time trip equipment, he recruits Jess's fellow time-traveler Hank to to take the trip with Jess. And like a bad penny, Jennifer Peterson, once Jess's best friend based on their alphabetically linked surnames, has shown up again, ready to make more trouble for her.Jess learns Hank's own plans are the opposite of what Alan wants. And Hank's plan could end up ruining Alan's life as well as his intellect.Jess doesn't know where her life is going to lead her, back to the past, or to an unexpected future.Keeping Secrets is the second book in the Time Trip Series.Other Books in The Time Trip in the Past, Book 1Keeping Secrets, Book 2 Deciphering the Past, Book 3Expected Publication December 2023

361 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 5, 2023