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Once again, the combination of time travel(!), Elizabethan England(!) and a completely swoon-worthy romance(!) absolutely transported me, and I found myself creating stories of my own. Who would have thought a chance book found in my motherвЂ™s overflowing bookshelves would end up meaning so much to me? But this story of time travel(!) and mysticism(!) in Elizabethan England(!) was the perfect combination of romance and adventure, and completely immersed me into another time and place.ДЄnother story that I can hold up as extremely influential in my love of romance, history and time travel is the Jude Devereaux classic, A Knight in Shining Armor.

While I have long been a fan of Elizabethan England, and am the proud owner of stacks of research books on the subject, I can point to a single book that spawned my fascination with Elizabethan fiction-and itвЂ™s an old one! Anya SetonвЂ™s Green Darkness. Still, I discovered both of these books in my late teens and early twenties, and they had a profound effect on me as I began writing my first tale of historical romance (which I never submitted for publication, and trust me, thatвЂ™s a good thing.) The two titles that instantly come to mind were written for вЂњadultвЂќ readers, but back in the (cough) years of my youth, we didnвЂ™t have the wealth of YA-targeted historical fiction that we have today.

#Maids 2 deception romance series#

With the recent development of Diana GabaldonвЂ™s Outlander series asВ a cable show on the Starz network, the subject of influential time travel and historical books has intrigued me, taking me back to the stories that helped shape my own love for historical fiction.