As I mentioned in This Time Love, I had a time-travel idea that went through several revisions, rewrites, and complete overhauls. Believe it or not, this version was the first, although it has been tweaked yet again.

It all started when i bought an antique iron, back in the day when postage from Denmark was actually affordable and you could purchase a cast-iron iron and pay for shipping without going broke.

I wrote the whole novel and sent it off to my agent, but she nixed the idea because an iron meant servants, and romance didn’t allow—then, and perhaps not now, if one wants to be historically accurate—for a gentleman to marry a servant.

Not that it didn’t happen. It did, but rarely and at severe cost to one’s social standing. 

But I had that iron, and I had that novel, and I really wanted to publish it. There had to be some way. There just had to be. I didn’t rewrite it a dozen times (that might be a slight exaggeration) not to use it in its original form.

In short, I was going to release that book, iron and all. Somehow.

However, there was one character I didn’t know what to do with. In the first book, I had Clara (the maid) be a maid from that time. It felt forced, though, and Clara wasn’t fitting well into the part I had given her. 

Besides, my agent was right. An iron does belong in the servants’ role, and I wanted to keep that part for the sake of historical accuracy. You have to download Clara’s Story from the link in the back of Time for a Viscount to find out the full version of how it happened, how she got into the past and stuck as a servant, but I am very happy with how it worked out.

If you haven’t read it yet, give it a try. Give both Olivia’s story and Clara’s free novella a try. I think you will be happy how it works out, too!

“A whimsical tale! This is such a charming and fun love story. The writing is top-notch. In regard to the time period, everything felt appropriate and accurate—down to the vocabulary and vernacular. I really enjoyed the ending.” – reader review 

“I felt like I was reading a PG Bridgerton with a mystery plot thrown in.” – Amazon reader review 

This is the iron. It’s real, I own it, and I had it shipped all the way from Denmark. I know my book is set in England, but even in that time items crossed the oceans, and trade was vigorous, so why wouldn’t an iron like this be in England? There is no way to know where it originated from in the first place.

My cover artist graciously put it on the back of the paperback cover, faded so as not to make it hard to read the blurb, but if you own the paperback book, look closely at the back cover. You’ll see it there.