THROUGH THE VENEER OF TIME
by Vera Bell
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Pub Date 10 Apr 2023 | Archive Date 4 Apr 2023
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Description
What if you could settle a score… four centuries later? The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo meets Outlander in this genre-bending romantic suspense/historical fantasy.
If not for “The Ghost”—her FBI husband’s gruesome case—Siena Forte’s life would have been perfect. But not when the D.C. serial killer is hunting women like her, and when her husband is so unsettled by this case, he refuses to discuss it. It’s a miracle her art career is thriving at all. And not only her career. When Siena lands a medieval mural commission at the National Gallery of Art, she discovers a bizarre knack for astral projecting to her past life. In a lucky strike, her visions of love and prominence in medieval Ireland are just the creative inspiration she seeks.
What Siena doesn’t know is her vivid depiction of the past exposes her to someone she has met before—the serial killer, reborn in this century just like her. But when a vicious attack from the past reverberates into the present, Siena’s life unravels in a chilling parallel. Silenced and alone, she discovers the true reason for her visions. They’re not the creative inspiration they seemed, but a harbinger of her centuries-old revenge vow, and the killer cannot be stopped until she fulfills it. But there is another person from the past with unfinished business—her husband. And another unwelcome déjà vu—their crumbling marriage, once again precipitated by the serial killer’s crime.
Advance Praise
"Past and present lives collide in Vera Bell’s hauntingly beautiful debut. A sexy, sensuous tale, where connections are never truly lost and love is the most powerful force of all."
— JULIE MCELWAIN, author of A Murder in Time
Available Editions
| ISBN | 9781959036180 |
| PRICE | US$3.99 (USD) |
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Featured Reviews
Lori C, Reviewer
This thriller was absolutely on fire!!! This is such an amazing book! I could not put this page turner down. Absolutely perfect!
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Chelsea F, Reviewer
✨Book Review✨
Book : Through The Veneer of Time
Author : Vera Bell
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In this book you get :
This book was such an extraordinary read. The right about of thriller, suspense and romance. The connections between the characters are magnificent.
I love a book that has an incredible plot! A plot with lots of twists and turns and leaves me turning pages and guessing each step of the way. I got that in this book. I enjoy books with great world development, well rounded and developed characters with amazing dialogue. I loved feeling like I was walking amongst these characters and their lives.
If you haven’t read this book already, I suggest that you head over and snag this book and plop it right on your tbr for your next read. You will not be disappointed. I will be waiting for the next book to come around by this author because Vera does NOT disappoint with her writing.
Kathleen K, Reviewer
There is a serial killer on the loose in D.C, and her husband is on the case it is a gruesome one and the parallels to Sienna are eery. The killer is murdering young women and her husband refuses to talk to Sienna about the murders.
Sienna is an artist and is commissioned to do a medieval mural at The National Gallery of Art. The painting starts to resemble the dreams that she has been having. Are the dreams based on a past life, or just figments of her imagination? They are based in Ireland in medieval times and have a lot of elements of war. Soon Sienna is not able to tell whether the dreams are real or not.
Someone is out to get her, and more women die as the investigation goes on, Sienna realizes that it is her that the medieval king is after her husband. The story is told from Sienna's aspect but her husband also plays a big part. I loved the back and forth between medieval Ireland and to present.
I have always loved a time travel story, and this one is no exception. Well researched but with a warning about sexual abuse, so if this triggers you in any way please be advised. I really enjoyed this novel, as I do anything Irish, it is fun for a character to be brought back in time so this book was a great one for me.
I give it 5 stars and hope to read more by Vera Bell!
Tammy W, Reviewer
Wildly imaginative! Great, multi-faceted characters. Very unique plot. Vivid descriptions. A solid, interesting read!
*I received a complimentary ARC of this book in order to read and provide a voluntary, unbiased and honest review, should I choose to do so.
Sheri O, Reviewer
I thought that this book was wonderful. The author did an excellent job creating imaginative characters that were interesting and multi-faceted characters. I loved the plot, and felt that it was unique and different. A solid read that pulled me in from the beginning. I really enjoyed it.
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