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Freddie Valek is a dreamer. He dreams about the fantastic as a means to escape, about finding the perfect man, about anything his imagination can conjure. When he falls asleep after work one day and finds himself in pre-Civil War Louisiana, he can’t say that he’s surprised. The only part of the dream that shocks him is that it’s taken him ten years to have a dream about the history of his most prized possession—a water-logged portrait of a man named Ezekiel.
All he knows about Ezekiel is what the woman who gave it to him said. That Ezekiel was the son of a plantation owner and a slave. That nobody ever found out what happened to him. Freddie’s dream thrusts him into the parents’ lives and their demands that he’s been brought to them to find their runaway son, a mission he is more than happy to accept.
But the closer Freddie gets to finding Ezekiel, the more he’s convinced that none of this is actually a dream...
All he knows about Ezekiel is what the woman who gave it to him said. That Ezekiel was the son of a plantation owner and a slave. That nobody ever found out what happened to him. Freddie’s dream thrusts him into the parents’ lives and their demands that he’s been brought to them to find their runaway son, a mission he is more than happy to accept.
But the closer Freddie gets to finding Ezekiel, the more he’s convinced that none of this is actually a dream...
60 pages, ebook
First published June 27, 2015
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Vivien Dean
76 books66 followersVivien Dean has had a lifetime love affair with stories. A multi-published author, her books have been EPPIE finalists, Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Nominees, and readers favorites. After spending her twenties and early thirties traveling, she has finally settled down and currently resides in northern California with her British husband and two children.
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June 28, 2015
2.5 stars
Not my favorite of Vivien Dean's. While the idea of time travel and the fact that this story featured interracial couple, I was a bit annoyed with the 'connection through time' part. It was probably written that way -- Kiel had 'listened' to Freddie's stories in his time in the past, while in the present time Freddie was talking to Kiel's painting -- to reduce the effect of instant connection when Freddie was being pulled into the Civil War era. But it became way too easy.
Maybe it was the limitation of the length but I wanted to see how Freddie fumbled by being in the past, or how they worked out the part of Freddie being from the future and Kiel being an African American from a white man a lot more than what was presented here.
Not my favorite of Vivien Dean's. While the idea of time travel and the fact that this story featured interracial couple, I was a bit annoyed with the 'connection through time' part. It was probably written that way -- Kiel had 'listened' to Freddie's stories in his time in the past, while in the present time Freddie was talking to Kiel's painting -- to reduce the effect of instant connection when Freddie was being pulled into the Civil War era. But it became way too easy.
Maybe it was the limitation of the length but I wanted to see how Freddie fumbled by being in the past, or how they worked out the part of Freddie being from the future and Kiel being an African American from a white man a lot more than what was presented here.
July 2, 2015
Reviewed for The Novel Approach. Review to come soon.
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