Hi, Friday Fiction Friends. Have I got a great book for you this week. I’ve been an Ann Tatlock fan for a while now. She is an awesome writer and I get totally caught up in her stories. Once Beyond a Time did not disappoint.
A troubled family, whose pastor father resigned in disgrace from a church in suburban Philadelphia, moves to an old house in Black Mountain, North Carolina. They soon discover that their new home, nearly hidden
from view on the side of a mountain, is no ordinary place. The family can see and speak with people who appear and disappear seemingly at will. Some of the visitors seem to have lived there in the past. More mysteriously, some will live there in the future.
Then, soon after their move into the old house, their eight-year-old son vanishes without a trace! Has he been kidnapped, or has he wandered off into the dark forest? Will the “house beyond time” provide the answers? Or does something more disturbing await this troubled family?
Tatlock writes her story like it’s a regular book until you start to get that “off the beaten track” vibe that I love so much. Disappearing, reappearing people. Nervous townspeople. A missing child. It leaves you on the edge of your seat, not daring to put down the novel until you figure out what happens. She explores the theme of forgiveness, one that resonated deeply within me at this time in my own life.
You’ll want to discover what happens when you go beyond time…
