I am hoping to find a Novel read about 5-6 years ago – thought authors name included “Beatrice” but maybe just “Bea”. thought title included “River” but possibly just an image not actual word River.
Definite ” River of Time” imagery in my head – do recall looking for other titles by the author then, and finding none or very few.
Story is about a young woman/girl who eventually has a memory of herself in the past stopping time with grandfather whose estate she was (is?) to inherit and she was somehow foiled (by bad relatives ?)
Also a romance line involves a noble neighbor? Friend? Lover? Who is/was older who could not break some type of vow – who also travels into the future with her – was her best friend maybe as a young woman on her family’s estate (England pre-regency)….does he show up as a cheesemonger in America (Vermont) and that is how they meet in the modern day?
O how I do hope I am not mixing up several storylines
I remember really loving this book – but it is lost to my brain – I would give a LOT to locate again.
One further detail: The detail about the protagonist’s “time stopping” skill – not revealed until end of novel – an inherited skill from her grandfather as a child in England she finally remembers she can actually freeze time and thereby stop motion…. “Freeze frame” style… so prevents a tragic death by going back to the second before a murder? Something to that effect.
‘The River of No Return’ by Bee Ridgway, pub. 2013?
Thank you ! Solved. It also came to me in a flash this morning (9 months)….. that authors name was Bea, not Beatrice which led to the spelling Bee. I logged on to the BLog to see if I was right. Thank you thank you! I thought a fun an remarkable, compelling and interesting romance and now, can follow this author. Thank you so much. Deb