Isabella’s Airman (Out of Time #2)
Excerpt
My quiet words hung between us. Inside, I cringed. There was no reason ever to tell the natives why we were there or to hint at future tech. Nothing would corrupt the timelines quicker than a peek at the future, and I felt cold at the secret I almost revealed.
Davy replaced his cup in its saucer, and then reached across the table and touched the back of my hand. My gaze leaped to meet his. “Maybe when I go on leave next time, you might come with me? I could take you to Hadrian’s Wall and to sample my mum’s baking.”
Shame flooded me at the deception I was creating. I couldn’t look at him. I tucked both hands in my lap and stared down at the table. The tea left a bitter taste in my mouth, or maybe that was guilt? This was so unfair.
I didn’t even realize I was trembling until Davy spoke in a low, pained voice. “I’m sorry, Isabella. I didn’t mean to make you feel uncomfortable.”
Looking up, I saw the hurt in his eyes and the way his jaw tightened. “I’m sorry,” I blurted. “I can’t do that.”
His mouth twisted, but he didn’t look away. “I’ve only known you a couple of days, and I know it’s too soon to be making plans, so don’t say no. Not yet.” He hesitated. I wondered if he could hear how loud my heart was pounding. “Let’s just take it as it comes. One day at a time.” His lips curved in a ghost of a smile. “Can we do that?”
I longed to say yes. This was supposed to be a fact-finding exercise and a step toward an excellent grade for the field trip. Over a pot of tea in a bustling café, it had grown into something I didn’t recognize.
“Isabella?” His voice was soft, coaxing me to speak. I remembered when he said my name that first night. The gentle lilt, the way it rolled off his tongue like an endearment. I swallowed. I was in way over my head already.
Still he watched me. Tension vibrated in the air. I couldn’t say yes, but it would kill me to say no. The paper I’d written was meaningless. Their chances of survival—this man’s chance—was dependent on more than proximity to home. He wanted someone to come back to.
There was a lump in my throat the size of a rock. “One day at a time.”
His smile was real this time. “That’s all right, then.” He slid the plate of forgotten carrot cake toward me. “We start with cake.”
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Blurb:
Time travel student Isabella Gillman is about to embark on her most challenging assignment--leaping back to 1941 to observe World War II. The rules are simple: don’t get emotionally involved, and don’t interfere.
She breaks the first rule when she falls in love with rear-gunner Davy Porteous. The second is on its way out as well, when she realizes history says he won’t survive the war. Torn between the fundamental laws of her society, and the man she loves, Isabella faces a harsh reality: does she risk both their lives for a future that may not happen?
She can’t predict the results if she corrupts the timelines, but without her actions, Davy is out of time.
Author links: www.SofiaGrey.com
Author bio:
Romance author Sofia Grey spends her days managing projects in the corporate world and her nights hanging out with wolf shifters and alpha males. She devours pretty much anything in the fiction line, but she prefers her romances to be hot, and her heroes to have hidden depths. When writing, she enjoys peeling back the layers to expose her characters’ flaws and always makes them work hard for their happy endings.
Music is interwoven so tightly into my writing that I can’t untangle the two. Either I’m listening to a playlist on my iPod, have music seeping from my laptop speakers, or there’s a song playing in my head – sometimes on auto-repeat.
To celebrate the release, the first in series (Lila's Wolf) will be discounted to 99c, from 1 – 7 June.
Blurb:
When Lila Cammell is abandoned by her time-jump partner, leaving her alone in Britain in the Dark Ages, revenge is the only thing on her mind. She’d trusted Jared Grohl with her life and her heart, and bringing him to justice will be sweet.
Finding him captured and enslaved by the Saxons changes all her assumptions. Now it’s a fight for survival, but the only way to save him, might be to leave him behind.
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Review for Isabella's Airman.
This is the second installment in Sofia Grey’s series called, Out of Time. While it is set in the point of view of a new character, the cousin of Marc who was the hero of the first book, we do have a small insight from his POV that has made me very concerned about what happened after he had returned back to his modern day—sounds like there was trouble in paradise between him and Lila, oh no! Though, I will get to that later in the review.
Here, we have first-time jumper and student, Isabella Gillman, and she inadvertently received a lesson that was far beyond what was expected of her . . . Love. Her first travel assignment was the perilous days of World War II, set in Suffolk, England, May 1941—five-hundred years back from her modern day.
Her case in study is the Royal Air Force Midenhall to document unfinished records for that particular point of base’s history.
In the first chapter we find just how different Bella’s modern day is than ours as she takes in the sights—she’s never been kissed and has never even seen anyone display any sort of sensual fondness towards one another! Back home, intimacy is a rare happening and if anyone had any sort of feeling for each other, their relationship had to be approved by the Council.
Then here comes Davy, a pilot along with another man named Teddy that Bella and her best friend Juliet happen to partner up with. His old-fashioned chivalrous ways swept Isabella off her feet., piquing her interest for a moment of passion with him, despite the looming death of his she knew was on his way, but she couldn’t tell him any of that.
Later on, there are a series of twists and pleasant surprises and most definitely a HEA, but I will leave that to you to discover!
I absolutely love the spark that Grey has teased us with between Marc and Juliet, and I am hoping they will be the center of our affection for this beautiful, time-swept series!
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