Durham · Chicago · Paris
Cancer researcher Alexandra Kaminski is on the verge of a
scientific breakthrough when she crosses paths with pharmaceutical
representative, Val Dorsainville, and the two are plunged into the mystery,
passion, and tragedy of their past lives in Paris of the 1800s. Can they solve
the mystery and avert tragedy this time around?
This tale winds like a double helix around molecular biology, reincarnation, impressionism, and the corporate intrigue of a French pharmaceutical company.
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Summer promotion features Americana
series by author Julie Tetel Andresen
ORLANDO, Fla. – When
Julie Tetel Andresen writes, her words excite the emotions of romance readers,
her storylines pique the interest of history buffs and her acute attention to
detail satisfies the hunger of academics.
Andresen
has penned more than 20 books during her career, covering everything from historical
romance and contemporary fiction to paranormal tales and linguistic theories.
Putting her expansive knowledge of language to work, she writes with an
impressive blend of wit, sincerity and intelligence. She
uses the varied lessons learned from each genre to help strengthen the other.
Andresen’s
time-slip trilogy – “The Blue Hour,” “The Crimson Hour” and “The Emerald Hour” –
takes readers on a trip around the world. The series of time traveling
excursions spans more than 100 years, exploring the economic consequences of
globalization through cancer research, pharmaceuticals and the rubber trade.
In
addition to being an accomplished author, Andresen is a professional linguist.
Her newest academic release, “Linguistics and Evolution,” reworks theoretical
linguistics around a developmental systems approach for these post-Chomskyan
times.
Andresen’s
official website is hosting a special summer promotion for her beloved
Americana romance series, which includes “Dawn’s Early Light,” “Unexpected Company,”
“Carolina Sonnet” and “Heart’s Wilderness,” each on sale for 99 cents through
September. Her site also offers for free download two stories: The Wedding
Night (when several things happen at once), an erotic/gothic short story, and Saigon Spring (coming
in September), a BDSM-inspired novella set in Vietnam.
What readers are saying:
“I felt danger, adventure, romance,
empathy, excitement, suspense, and surprise. I was so in touch with the
characters that I found myself wanting to scream at them when they were in
certain situations. As an avid reader, I am grateful to the author for opening
up a new world to me. After years of Clancy, Ludlum, Grisham, King and others,
I am excited to explore the world of romantic adventure!” – Reader review,
Amazon.com
“Not ‘just’ a time travel, contemporary
romance, historical fiction or suspense novel. The mystery, travel and
adventure make it exciting, the historical aspects are well-researched and
nicely done, the reincarnation aspects make it fascinating, and the romance is
integral to the storyline.” – Reader review, Amazon.com
REVIEW
If you're looking to be swept
away on a magical adventure filled with mystery, romance, tragedy and intrigue,
look no further.
Andersen combines endearing characters, gut-wrenching
emotion, and fascinating twists and turns, to deliver an intelligently plotted
tale that explores the subject of reincarnation and “time travel” in a most
unique way.
I felt like I was on a
treasure hunt and every time a present day character got a glimpse of the past,
a glimmering gem was discovered. I even started looking for similarities
between characters before the connection was made in the story, and it made me
feel like I was a part of the adventure, instead of just reading about it.
I was fully immersed in this
story by the time Alexandra took the letters she’d found to be translated. I
have always loved historical reads, and the era this story transported me to
was so exciting. The love story between the characters took hold of my heart
and the final meeting between Jeanne and Victor was one of the most passionate
and heart-breaking scenes I have ever read. I was just happy that “they” were
able to learn from past mistakes.
At times, I found the modern day
prose to be a bit stiff, making the characters feel older than they were, but
that may just be because I’m so used to reading YA reads that tend to be more
relaxed. This, however, didn’t stop me from loving every minute of this book.
The exquisite storytelling drew
me in, and kept me in suspense right to the end. And what an end to one of the
most epic love stories I have ever had the pleasure of reading. This was truly
a masterpiece.
Find out more about The Timeslip Series.
Read Julie Tetel Andersen's short story, The Wedding Night, for FREE
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Julie Tetel
Andresen’s seemingly disparate writing activities – fiction, non-fiction and essays
in foreign languages – all arise from a unified sense of her writing self.
As a professional
linguist, she loves language, while as a romance writer she loves the language
of love; and when learning a foreign language, she loves nothing more than exploring
the limits of her ability to express herself in that language on paper.
In her academic
writing, she has long been devoted to exploring the history of linguistics, and
this disciplinary exploration parallels her devotion to writing historical novels.
In her most recent academic work “Linguistics and Evolution” (Cambridge 2014),
she shows the ways that the history of linguistic theory and practice informs
the current state of the discipline, and this sense of the past pressing on the
present informs her time-slip series.
Her writing
activities have always been entwined temporally. She wrote her first historical
“My Lord Roland” while writing her PhD dissertation “Linguistic Crossroads of
the Eighteenth Century,” and all her early academic articles were written
mostly in French. Twenty novels and dozens of journal articles later, she wrote
her Regency novella “French Lessons” while waiting for the 2012 autumn meeting
of the Cambridge Press Syndicate to decide to issue her a contract for
“Linguistics and Evolution.” At the same time, she happened to be in Ho Chi
Minh City learning Vietnamese and happily writing her Vietnamese essays.
She firmly believes
that one type of writing strengthens the others. Her historical novels have
honed her craft of plotting and sub-plotting, while her time-slip series has
given her the Kraft (in the German sense of the word 'power') to handle
the long historical arc and multiple characters involved in “Linguistics and
Evolution.” Her professional study of language, in turn, makes her sensitive to
the vocabulary and rhythms of speech in other places and time periods; while
writing in a foreign language – be it French, German, Romanian, or Vietnamese –
is to her like the pianist warming up with scales and arpeggios or the yogini
trying out a new asana. Can she get her leg behind her head in Romanian?
No? Well, then how
about triangle pose? Can she get into full lotus in Vietnamese? Again, no?
Let’s see about half-lotus.
Andresen grew up in
Glenview, Ill. She holds a bachelor of arts degree from Duke University and a doctorate
from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She has taught at Duke
University for the past 20 years where she specializes in linguistics.
Find out more on Julie's WEBSITE.
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