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Fall Through Time: An Autumn Anthology
Follow four women through four centuries, where the warmth of autumn lingers on every page.
Amsterdam, 1636. Disguised under a male alias, Saskia Tuinstra paints coveted tulip portraits to keep her younger sisters afloat after their father’s death from the plague. When her earnings can't cover the debt he leaves behind, Saskia faces an impossible marry her father's calculating business partner, or risk everything. Then a wealthy patron commissions a painting and demands to meet the elusive artist face to face. Saskia never expects him to be the man she once loved and hasn’t seen in eleven years.
Set against the backdrop of Amsterdam’s Golden Age, this is a poignant story armed with witty banter, moonlit canal rides amid autumn, and two people discovering the true meaning of honest, bone-deep, love.
New Jersey, 1776. Twenty-nine year old Catharine Van Cortlandt and her husband Philip live an idyllic life on a colonial New Jersey farm with their eight children. When Philip, a Loyalist, is branded a traitor to the Continental cause, he must flee his home, leaving his wife and children with a sparse harvest and only two servants for company. Shunned by friends and neighbors, Catharine despairs, until a kindly Dutch widower named Pieter offers to carry her letters to Philip – and provide Catharine’s family with food and friendship. Soon, a childhood friend named Gabriel lands on Catharine’s doorstep and offers to help protect her family from a raging smallpox epidemic.
Will Catharine fall for the charms of another man, or will she have the strength to remain loyal to her absentee husband?
The Canadian Frontier, 1811. Evaline Burrell dreams of three things. The Rocky Mountains, finding the Pacific Ocean, and building a home with her childhood sweetheart, Finnegan Dersley. As the daughter of a headstrong fur trader, and the youngest of four sisters, she struggles to find her voice, and is unsure of her own mind, avoiding confrontation at all costs. But when the conflict she dreads most raises its ugly head, she is forced to make a heart-rending decision, and the cost of it is her dreams, and the man she loves. Now broken, she believes God's best plan for her life has been ruined, and begins to settle what is left; second best. But when the famous David Thompson arrives at Kootney House in 1811 to launch an expedition to find a river through the mountains to the Pacific Ocean, he is followed by a band of rugged and weathered mountain men, one of whom holds the key to Evaline’s heart. A second chance drops into her lap like a gift from above. But will she have the courage to take it?
North Carolina, 1929. Hazel Parker feels like a child again…but not in the way she hoped. Freshly annulled from a cheating husband and with nowhere else to turn, she lands under her aunt and uncle’s roof in the quiet hills of North Carolina. Determined not to be anyone’s burden, Hazel sets up a breakfast cart outside the local mill, vowing to rebuild her life on her own terms. Her new rule? No more men. No more heartache. No more trusting someone else with her future. But then she meets Wyatt; a soft-spoken mill worker with a quiet strength and a past of his own. And soon, Hazel questions everything she thought she knew about love, loyalty, and second chances.
Amid cider-sweet air, woodsmoke, and the amber hues of autumn in the Appalachians, Emily Ann’s “Not This Time” is a heartwarming story of healing, hope, and the unexpected places we find home.
Amsterdam, 1636. Disguised under a male alias, Saskia Tuinstra paints coveted tulip portraits to keep her younger sisters afloat after their father’s death from the plague. When her earnings can't cover the debt he leaves behind, Saskia faces an impossible marry her father's calculating business partner, or risk everything. Then a wealthy patron commissions a painting and demands to meet the elusive artist face to face. Saskia never expects him to be the man she once loved and hasn’t seen in eleven years.
Set against the backdrop of Amsterdam’s Golden Age, this is a poignant story armed with witty banter, moonlit canal rides amid autumn, and two people discovering the true meaning of honest, bone-deep, love.
New Jersey, 1776. Twenty-nine year old Catharine Van Cortlandt and her husband Philip live an idyllic life on a colonial New Jersey farm with their eight children. When Philip, a Loyalist, is branded a traitor to the Continental cause, he must flee his home, leaving his wife and children with a sparse harvest and only two servants for company. Shunned by friends and neighbors, Catharine despairs, until a kindly Dutch widower named Pieter offers to carry her letters to Philip – and provide Catharine’s family with food and friendship. Soon, a childhood friend named Gabriel lands on Catharine’s doorstep and offers to help protect her family from a raging smallpox epidemic.
Will Catharine fall for the charms of another man, or will she have the strength to remain loyal to her absentee husband?
The Canadian Frontier, 1811. Evaline Burrell dreams of three things. The Rocky Mountains, finding the Pacific Ocean, and building a home with her childhood sweetheart, Finnegan Dersley. As the daughter of a headstrong fur trader, and the youngest of four sisters, she struggles to find her voice, and is unsure of her own mind, avoiding confrontation at all costs. But when the conflict she dreads most raises its ugly head, she is forced to make a heart-rending decision, and the cost of it is her dreams, and the man she loves. Now broken, she believes God's best plan for her life has been ruined, and begins to settle what is left; second best. But when the famous David Thompson arrives at Kootney House in 1811 to launch an expedition to find a river through the mountains to the Pacific Ocean, he is followed by a band of rugged and weathered mountain men, one of whom holds the key to Evaline’s heart. A second chance drops into her lap like a gift from above. But will she have the courage to take it?
North Carolina, 1929. Hazel Parker feels like a child again…but not in the way she hoped. Freshly annulled from a cheating husband and with nowhere else to turn, she lands under her aunt and uncle’s roof in the quiet hills of North Carolina. Determined not to be anyone’s burden, Hazel sets up a breakfast cart outside the local mill, vowing to rebuild her life on her own terms. Her new rule? No more men. No more heartache. No more trusting someone else with her future. But then she meets Wyatt; a soft-spoken mill worker with a quiet strength and a past of his own. And soon, Hazel questions everything she thought she knew about love, loyalty, and second chances.
Amid cider-sweet air, woodsmoke, and the amber hues of autumn in the Appalachians, Emily Ann’s “Not This Time” is a heartwarming story of healing, hope, and the unexpected places we find home.
392 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 8, 2025
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