by: Janie Emaus
Series: The Time Traveling Matchmakers
Genre: Time Travel Romance
Release Date: July 25, 2022
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
In The Time Traveling Matchmaker, love takes on a new meaning when soul mates are brought together through time and space.
Like every goal-oriented twenty-something, Jessica Singleton, an aspiring filmmaker, is obsessed with finding her future as quickly as possible. What she doesn't know is that the future is obsessed with finding her, too. Renn Porter, an agent with Time Traveling Matchmaker's Inc, blasts back in time - and into her life- in order to transport Jessica to the soul mate who has paid for this service...in the future. But things turn dangerous when it's revealed that Renn has been sent after his own soul mate.
Caught between two times, Jessica and Renn must struggle to stay alive. Falling in love is the biggest risk either of them has ever taken - because, as they are destined to learn, the very existence of Time Traveling Matchmakers, Inc. rests in Jessica's hands.
Age: 32
Physical Description: Brownish-blond hair. Blue eyes with a mocha rim. A short beard. Muscular arms covered with a fine mist of hair.
Occupation: Time Traveling Matchmaker, Apprentice
3 likes in no particular order: Music. Time Traveling. Stargazing.
3 dislikes in no particular order: Liars. Driving. Making Jessica cry.
Drink of choice: Bourbon on the rocks
Favorite food: Chicken curry
Favorite dessert: Kissing Jessica
Favorite song: I Wanna Dance with Somebody (who loves me)
Favorite color: Green
Choice of transportation: Time Travel
Most prized possession: My Trench Coat
Favorite way to unwind: Before meeting Jessica, I loved to watch holos and listen to music. Now as long as she is by my side, I feel relaxed.
Favorite way to spend an evening: Since arriving in 2022, my perfect evening is spending time Jessica, whether cooking together, walking or simply sitting under her tree, doing nothing at all.
Best friend: Tweetlyn
Best memory to date: Every time I make love with Jessica.
If you could have a do-over, what would you do differently? I would have reported Nastasha at my inkling into her wrong doings.
What profession other than your own would you like to attempt? I would work at the history museum.
What profession would you not like to do? Any desk job, which didn’t allow for time travel.
Most romantic gesture: Bringing donuts to Jessica
Renn was coming toward me now and our eyes met. Fireworks went off inside my chest. He wasn’t avoiding me this time. This time I would learn the truth.
I raised my hand in a small wave.
“Watch out!” A bicyclist shouted as he sped down the sidewalk, completely out of control.
He clipped Renn’s shoulder, pushing him up against me. Renn’s coat got caught on the buckle of my purse. I heard a rip. No, more than that - I felt a rip down the center of my body, jagged like a piece of broken glass. Beneath my feet, the sidewalk tilted, and I lost my balance.
A strong a wind kept me from falling. Once steady, I turned to find Renn.
This all happened in a less than a second. And in that second Renn was gone. Vanished. Just like that. All that was left was his lemony scent. And the memory of his hand on my arm.
I didn’t see him in either direction. My head throbbed as if something heavy kept knocking into it.
A minute later a mother with her little girl walked past me. I knew before she stopped, that the little girl was going to bend down to tie her shoe. Time was going to repeat itself. Again.
She giggled, just like before. “Thanks, Mommy,” she said. “Tomorrow I can do it myself.”
I held on to the desire I had seen in Renn’s eyes, wondering about my tomorrow.
I raised my hand in a small wave.
“Watch out!” A bicyclist shouted as he sped down the sidewalk, completely out of control.
He clipped Renn’s shoulder, pushing him up against me. Renn’s coat got caught on the buckle of my purse. I heard a rip. No, more than that - I felt a rip down the center of my body, jagged like a piece of broken glass. Beneath my feet, the sidewalk tilted, and I lost my balance.
A strong a wind kept me from falling. Once steady, I turned to find Renn.
This all happened in a less than a second. And in that second Renn was gone. Vanished. Just like that. All that was left was his lemony scent. And the memory of his hand on my arm.
I didn’t see him in either direction. My head throbbed as if something heavy kept knocking into it.
A minute later a mother with her little girl walked past me. I knew before she stopped, that the little girl was going to bend down to tie her shoe. Time was going to repeat itself. Again.
She giggled, just like before. “Thanks, Mommy,” she said. “Tomorrow I can do it myself.”
I held on to the desire I had seen in Renn’s eyes, wondering about my tomorrow.
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Janie Emaus believes when the world is falling apart, we’re just one laugh away from putting it together again. The Time Traveling Matchmaker is her debut adult novel. She is also the author of the blended holiday picture books, Latkes for Santa Claus, and the forthcoming Matzo Balls & Easter Eggs. Her essays, stories and articles have been published in numerous magazines, anthologies, and websites. In 2016 she won an honorary mention in the Erma Bombeck Writing competition. To learn more about Janie visit her website.
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