“I really didn’t want this story to end… An emotional rollercoaster of a read… the author captivated me heart and soul and I loved everything about it.” Online reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
Present Day. Louisa Arnold has always loved Hill House. As a little girl she played in the derelict manor’s overgrown gardens and peered through its cracked ballroom windows, hoping to glimpse spectral lords and ladies dancing within. The tragic story of the wealthy former owners, the Mandevilles, even inspired her to want to teach history. But, trapped by the hardship she grew up in, Lou fears that dream is forever out of reach. 
After a terrible loss, Lou runs to hide within the house’s ruined halls. To her astonishment, Hill House begins to transform around her – in place of rotting floors and sagging ceilings, are vast silk rugs of embroidered roses and majestic crystal chandeliers. Maids and footmen flit busily around her – is Lou dreaming, or could she actually be standing in this place as it was a hundred years ago? 
Lou is mystified by the warm welcome she receives as a guest of the illustrious Mandeville family. Over tea parties and shoots, banquets and dancing, she’s suddenly living the life she always dreamed of. And, though she tries to fight it, she’s increasingly drawn to the Mandeville heir, Thomas – whose heart-breaking fate she knows well from the pages of history. 
As Lou falls more in love with this world that she never imagined could be hers, the truth about Hill House and the destiny of its family begins to unravel around her. Will the past run its stubborn course, swallowing Lou in its wake, or can she save this beautiful place and the people she’s come to treasure from certain ruin? 
A heart-breaking, beautiful, emotional and unputdownable read, for fans of The Time Traveller’s Wife, Fiona Valpy and Lucinda Riley. 
What readers are saying about A Time to Change: 
“Loved this book.Didn’t want it to end. Cried at the end.” Online reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
“Took my breath away in a way I never thought was possible… filled my arms with copious amounts of goosebumps, whilst also pricking my eyes with unshed tears… It broke my heart, then it fixed it again.” Online reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
“I just couldn’t get enough of it… I really didn’t want this story to end. I was so wrapped up in it… An emotional rollercoaster of a read… Right from the start the author captivated me heart and soul and I loved everything about it. An absolute must read!” Online reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
“A really powerful and heart-wrenching novel about love and self-sacrifice… It is beautifully written and for a few hours I got lost in its pages … Now it is ended and I feel bereft… a most beautiful and fabulous novel.” Online reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

A Time to Change: Absolutely gripping and heartbreaking historical fiction (A Mandeville Mystery)

Literature & Fiction

Langridge, Callie

Literary

Storm Publishing

The Mandeville Shadow: Totally heartbreaking and unputdownable timeslip historical fiction (A Mandeville Mystery)

“I would rather love passionately for an hour than benignly for a lifetime.”
In a house full of history and secrets, the past will not stay where it belongs…
Lou has always loved Hill House, the derelict manor on the abandoned land near her home. As a child, the tragic history of its owners, the Mandevilles, inspired her dream to become a history teacher. But in her late twenties, and working in a shop to pay off student debts, life is passing her by. 
That changes when a family disaster sends Lou’s life into a downward spiral and she seeks comfort in the ruined corridors of Hill House. The house transforms around her and Lou is transported back to Christmas 1913. Convinced she has been in an accident and is in a coma, Lou immerses herself in her Edwardian dream. With the Mandevilles oblivious to her true identity, Lou becomes their houseguest and befriends the eldest son, Captain Thomas Mandeville, a man she knows is destined to die in the First World War.
Lou feels more at home in the past than the present and when she realises the experience is real she sets out to do everything in her power to save her new friends. 
Lou passes between 1913 and 2013, unearthing plots of murder and blackmail, which she must stop no matter the cost.
On her quest to save the Mandevilles by saving Thomas, Lou will face the hardest decision of her life. She will learn that love cannot be separated by a century.

A Time To Change

Romance

Contemporary

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