It's About Time (Love Connections Contemporary Interconnected Romance)

He was expecting a man for the job. Love was the last thing he was expecting.

Widow Austen Wiley, unable to spend as much time with her four-year old son, David, as she wanted to, drives from her home in Kansas to a summer job in Nebraska’s panhandle near Chimney Rock. When she arrives, she learns that Mark Thomas, the owner of TrailWays, which provides historical treks on the Oregon Trail, was expecting a man. Perhaps because he and David established an instant bond, he decides to let her stay.

There was constant strife between the two, but also an immediate attraction, obvious to everyone. They tried to ignore it because of past experiences, and continued to address each other as Mrs. Wiley and Mr. Thomas, but there were instances when they couldn’t avoid their attraction and it came close to becoming something so much more than “almost” kisses.

Anne Edmondson Barbour is a true romantic, she and her late husband married two months and two days after their first date. The love lasted, and after retiring, they began to dress in period clothing and travel to venues where they presented programs depicting historic times and events, including the Oregon Trail. The Barbours became well known for their endeavors and received many accolades and requests for presentations. To prepare for the presentations, they collected books and items concerning the trails, and even went so far as to follow the Oregon Trail from their home in Overland Park, Kansas, to Chimney Rock in the panhandle of Nebraska where they spent a few days experiencing the wagon train life much as it was in the 1840s. Anne thought their experiences would make a wonderful background for a modern romance with elements of the historicity blended in. Now widowed, Anne has five children, ten grandchildren, four step-grandchildren, four great-grandchildren and one step great-grandchild, all scattered throughout the country and overseas.