About the Book

Book: Rita: A Yorktown Christmas Time Travel Novella

Author: Izzy James

Genre: Christian Romance

Release date: July 19, 2022

Dr. Rita Woods thought she was going back in time to save the children. She didn’t count on falling in love.

Rita Woods—retired physician, widow, with a granddaughter about to be married—misses her patients. She’s tired of knitting. She wants to do something that makes a difference again. When Max Ballard and his time-traveling conservatory pop in to her life, the voice of Dr. Josiah Jones’ diary calls. The voice who’d inspired her vocation. The last line of the diary haunts her quiet moments:

“…the children succumbed in the night…”

In 1769 Dr. Josiah Jones has a good life. His practice is thriving and, except for the the guilt he carries over the death of his wife, life couldn’t be any better. His biggest worry is the zealous match-making activities of his best friend…that is until a hurricane throws an unexpected guest on his doorstep.

Can Josiah trust a woman from the twenty-first century to save the only grandchildren he’ll ever have?

Is it possible for two people living 250 years apart to have a second chance at love?

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My Thoughts:

Rita has watched her granddaughter fall in love with a time traveler and now wonders if she can go back in time herself and help save a certain Dr. Josiah Jones and his family from a terrible sickness that history says they died from. Being a doctor herself, she hopes the miracle of time travel will also work for her. With hope in her heart and a little bit of faith, Rita travels back in time, not sure how, but there she is. Now will the doctor himself believe her.

As she works to earn Josiah's trust, they become friends and professional partners of a sort. Josiah is very open and trusting of Rita, in fact they are both falling in love with one another. However, while Rita is in the past, she is ever aware that on Christmas she will be going back home to her life and granddaughter. Can she and Josiah accept that, or will one make the ultimate sacrifice? And does Rita going back in time save Josiah's family?

This was a heartfelt Christmas time travel novella that gave Rita, a grandmother and a retired doctor, a new chance at love and an adventure she never dreamed possible. Josiah also never thought he would love again after his wife's death, but then something unbelievable happens. This was a fun novella that suspends belief and inspires.

I received a copy of this novel from the author. I was not required to post a positive review and all views and opinions are my own.

About the Author

Izzy James grew up in the footprints of history in coastal Virginia. She lives there still with her fabulous husband in a house brimming with books.

More from Izzy

After I finished Garrett, who worked really hard to hide his contemporary origins when he slipped back to 1769, I thought it would be fun to have someone actually take some technology back to 1769. I also felt bad for Olivia’s grandmother who makes her first appearance in Max. She is a retired physician knitting away and helping out Olivia and Garrett as she can. I thought it was time she had an adventure of her own. And since I love historic areas, and Yorktown has become one of my favorite places, I knew I had to go back at least one more time.