The Time After Time Series by Carol Ann Kauffman

The romantic adventure series, TIME AFTER TIME, follows a pair of quintessential lovers, Richard and Nicole, through their lives together, in different places, in different times, at different stages of their lives, with different names and faces and sometimes even on other planets.

 This follows the alternative theory that the relationships we forge in this lifetime, both the good and the bad, are continued into the future, and are rooted deeply in our past. 

Whatever we do, whomever we love, and the good and evil deeds we do today follow us into the future. Unsettled issues will present themselves again and again, until they are ultimately resolved. 

Those people who have had a profound effect on us in this lifetime will find us again in the future. And although everything changes, love remains.

Books in the TIME AFTER TIME series are: full length novels BLUE LAKE, BELTERRA,The BASLICATO, BENTLEY SQUARE, MACKALVEY HOUSE, and LORD OF BLAKELEY and novella Waiting for Richard. They do not need to be read in order.

Amazon Link: http://tinyurl.com/nt2ro9j

Pushing Up Daisies by M.C. Beaton

M. C. Beaton...her name should be familiar to you. This prolific British author has written not one, but two extensive outstanding series, the Agatha Raisin Mysteries and the Hamish MacBeth series. I love them both.❤️❤️❤️

Pushing Up Daisies is Ms Beaton's latest in the fabulous Agatha Raisin Mystery Series.

Agatha Raisin, a London high powered public relations maven, retires to the idyllic Cotswolds village of Carsely for a calmer, more contented life in a beautiful little cottage with her two cats. She soon becomes bored and opens a little detective agency. At first she found lost pets. Soon she is knee-deep in murders and danger.

In thus twenty-seventh Agatha adventure, a wealthy Lord wants to the community garden into a housing development, which does not sit well with the village residents. Someone ends up dead.

Agatha has been described as a "Miss Maple who enjoys drinks, cigarettes, and men" (from the back cover.) She is described in the book  as a classy mature woman with black hair, brown eye, and great legs. The description reminded me of Angelina Huston.

If you read one Agatha Raisin mystery, you'll be back for more. I love this author. She is a sweet, fun lady born in Scotland with a real knack for pulling you into the story. Try her, I know you'll love her, too.

Links: MCBeaton.com

Waiting for Richard

Waiting for Richard by Carol Ann Kauffman

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Dear Gentle Readers,

In Blue Lake, the first Time After Time novel, we met Nicole and Richard, lovers who find each other again in different lifetimes, at different times in different places. In this case they find each other in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Nicole is a widow in her forties. Richard is a young man in his late twenties.

In Belterra, they find each other on a different planet. She is Neeka, daughter of the chief of the healing tribe and he is Braedon, the War Lord.

In Waiting for Richard, they are both older people who think that great love they were both looking for has passed them by. While the other Time After Time novels are full-length, about 100,000 words, Waiting for Richard is shorter, about 20,000 words, about 80 pages.

Here are some reviews for Waiting for Richard:

Next Time Around

By H. R. on April 30, 2016

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Carol Ann Kauffman takes the reader to Australia in this romantic story of Richard and Nicole. They just have a "feeling" about the other and soon realize they have loved before in a different time period. They are older this time around and Nicole has some trepidation about being with Richard. A fun read just right for a rainy afternoon.

5.0 out of 5 starsHow many life times have you sought out your true love and found them again and again?

By V. R. on August 9, 2016

Format: Kindle Edition

Did you ever have a dream about a person for years that you never met, but you know you know them very well? And when you do finally meet, the both of you have memories for things you did together, years ago, century's ago, another life time ago? And the both of you know the others name from another time? Well this happened to Skye and Derrick in their 60's.
When they both called each other by their other name, I got goosebumps! Some people are meant to be with each other for ever and that means from life time to another. Some how, one way or the other, they find each other. I like to think my Husband and I are like that. I believe that you live on in your sprite form until God has another plan for you. So why not being with the only one for you, your Soul Mate, from life time to life time and so on?
This is a very touching story and makes you think about who you are with and people that you have met and felt an connection to right away. I love how Carol put this story together. It's a love story of a different kind. Sweet, mystery, funny and heart warming all rolled into one.

Amazon Link:  http://tinyurl.com/m6njc9b

Hugs,
Carol 

Florentine Painter Federico Andreotti

Federico Andreotti  was born in Florence, Italy on March 8, 1847. His early studies in the arts were with Angiolo Tricca and Stefano Ussi at the Florentine Academy of the Fine Arts.

He is known as a prolific painter in the realistic genre, but he is famous for his aristocratic scenes.



He gained an appointment as a professor at the Academy at a young age. He painted many canvases in Florence, Rome, and other big Italian cities. 

He combined his artistic talent with his knowledge of the human anatomy. 

His paintings depicted the gentries aristocracy in their finest dress. The elaborate period dress and the sophisticated airs of his subjects gave his paintings a special air, sometimes described as Rococo Revival.

He is praised for his dramatic use of color in his paintings.








Federico died in 1930 in Florence. His work is widely sought after in auction houses in Europe.