'Fallam's Secret' by Denise Giardina is a semi-historical romance fantasy story that involves time travel and finding wormholes to pass from one time period to another. The writing style is easy to read, grammatically concise yet descriptive, with a good and interesting pace in the storyline. The characters travel to 17th Century Cromwell's England, facing dangers and uncertainties related to time travel, including scientific changes and aging discrepancies. The novel combines romance with elements of science fiction, making it an interesting and very readable book that offers an inventive and refreshing approach to the concept of time travel.
From The Publisher:
A master storyteller delivers an historical novel with a twist-what will become of a modern American woman in Cromwell's England?
Returning home to West Virginia after her beloved Uncle John's death, Lydde finds that he has left her an odd legacy: a note with instructions that lead her to a remote mountain cave. When she falls into a crevasse, she finds she has followed her uncle farther than she thought-to Norchester, England, in 1657. Times are dark: the ruling Puritans have beheaded the king and prohibited song, dance, and even Christmas. Though she passes as a boy with her short hair and pants, local official Noah Fallam is still suspicious of her strange clothing and outspokenness. Luckily, she soon finds her uncle, and another man: the Raven, a bandit who provides for the poor through smuggling and robbery. The unlikely couple fall in love, and Lydde must decide where-and when-she belongs. This captivating story brings us close to Denise Giardina's signature concerns of faith and the way we treat the earth.
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