The Necklace IV: Brighton - December, 1999
by Linda S RicePublish: Oct 23, 2015Series: The NecklaceTime Travel Romance Book Overview
She has loved him for decades. But can she make him trust her again?
After her friends' betrayal forces Susan to return to the future on the very day she was supposed to marry James, she falls into a deep depression. The engagement ring James gave her remains attached to her magical necklace—a painful reminder of the life she lost and the man she has never stopped loving.
When Susan's daughter, Michelle, finally discovers the truth about her mother's extraordinary journeys through time, she decides it is time to put an end to Susan's obsession with the past.
But when mother and daughter travel back to December 1999, everything changes.
James is in Brighton for his first public appearance since the death of his wife. Susan knows she has only one chance to win him back, but James has every reason to doubt her. She has disappeared from his life before, leaving him heartbroken and wondering whether he can ever trust her again.
But Susan carries the weight of everything that happened between them—and James isn't sure he can ever trust her again.
While Susan tries to repair her shattered relationship with James, Michelle unexpectedly meets his son, Thomas. What begins as a journey meant to help her mother becomes a love story of its own, as Michelle discovers a man she never expected to meet—and a future she never expected to want.
Then there is Hilary.
Beautiful, ambitious, and determined to make James hers, Hilary begins digging into Susan's past. What she discovers could destroy everything Susan and James have built.
At Auntie Annabelle's cottage, Susan and James finally begin to believe they may have another chance. James's old feelings return, his walls begin to fall, and he makes Susan an offer she has dreamed of for years.
For a brief moment, it seems Susan's impossible love may finally become reality.
But Hilary isn't finished.
When Susan's past is exposed at the worst possible moment, James is forced to confront the pain he thought he had finally overcome. The betrayal cuts deeper because this time he had allowed himself to believe they could have a future together.
And Susan's choices don't only cost her James.
They cost Michelle the man she loves, too.
With no way for Susan to return to the future on her own, Michelle must make an agonizing decision that will break her own heart.
Can a love that has survived decades, distance, marriage, and time itself survive one more betrayal?
Or will Susan finally have to accept that some loves are meant to remain impossible?