A Stitch in Time by Kelley Armstrong

 Do you know Kelley Armstrong's books? I went to Audible to look for the another series by this author and listen to the next book in the Rockton series or maybe start the Haven's Rock series. 

This book came up first when I put in the name of the author and it really intrigued me. It has lots of elements that I like in a mystery.

A Stitch in Time

About: "Thorne Manor has always been haunted… and it has always haunted Bronwyn Dale. As a young girl, Bronwyn could pass through a time slip in her great-aunt's house, where she visited William Thorne, a boy her own age, born two centuries earlier. After a family tragedy, the house was shuttered and Bronwyn was convinced that William existed only in her imagination.

Now, twenty years later Bronwyn inherits Thorne Manor. And when she returns, William is waiting.

William Thorne is no longer the boy she remembers. He’s a difficult and tempestuous man, his own life marred by tragedy and a scandal that had him retreating to self-imposed exile in his beloved moors. He’s also none too pleased with Bronwyn for abandoning him all those years ago.

As their friendship rekindles and sparks into something more, Bronwyn must also deal with ghosts in the present version of the house. Soon she realizes they are linked to William and the secret scandal that drove him back to Thorne Manor. To build a future, Bronwyn must confront the past."

I like stories about time travel. Loved the movie Somewhere it Time. Outlander although I have not finished the series - so long. I like books about the Victorian time period. I like a few ghosts. I wanted to go back in time when I was a kid reading books about stories set in the 1800's.  (I now realize I would probably only make it about two hours in that time. ha)

The story has a lot going on but it is easy to follow. Bronwyn inherits the house in current time. She is a widow at the age of 38. She goes to sleep and wakes up in the past. She realizes she is with William and basically is freaked out and jumps back to her time. She then remembers how to go back, and when William sees her he runs from her. There is a ghost that is threatening her. Well downright scaring her. In her own time, she talks to a woman named Freya whom her family knew when Bronwyn was girl. Bronwyn's uncle died suddenly back then, Bronwyn seemed to have a nervous breakdown with talk about ghosts and her mother had her committed. Freya says she isn't mentally ill and helps her to confront the ghost etc. 

There are lots of secrets about the Thorne family and stories about William: a fiance that disappeared, a sister that disappeared, a little boy that disappeared, all either ran away or fell into the bog. 

The story is about Bronwyn and William rekindling their childhood romance and Bronwyn trying to solve the mystery of what happened to the fiance, sister and little boy in order to clear William's name. 

I really liked it. Good mystery. 

There are four books in the Stitch in Time series; more time travel, cold cases and ghosts. Each book focuses on different characters from the first book. I plan to put them on my every growing list. 

Kelley Armstrong has written 13 series. Many are paranormal. But the Rockton series and Haven's Rock (spinoff of the Rockton series) are about a female detective Casey Duncan and and Sheriff Eric Dalton. It is listed as a police procedural. I have read the first book in the series, City of the Lost. These two series were recommended by a book friend whose recommendations are always good.

Kelley Armstrong is on my list of authors I want to read more of.

https://www.kelleyarmstrong.com/books/