Cathie Dunn writes...

I have exciting news: Love Lost in Time is finally available on pre-order from Amazon through Ocelot Press !  It’ll be released on 28th November 2019 , my 11th wedding anniversary. Thrilled to bits! Based partly on a true story, Love Lost in Time is a dual-timeline mystery set in the late 8th century and the present day, right here in the Languedoc in south-west France. The ’true story’ part is the bit where my present-day character, Maddie, finds several old bones under her kitchen floor. This happened to my former neighbours in a small Minervois village – they even showed me some remnants of bones and parts of a cranium. Needless to say, it inspired a plot, and Love Lost in Time is the result! Sadly, no paranormal activity was observed by the neighbours, even though our houses stood on the grounds of an ancient Merovingian graveyard. I love graveyards, so I didn’t mind. So any paranormal activity is entirely down to my imagination.  The ’historic’ part of...

As I'm struggling to finish the contemporary part of my dual-timeline mystery, Love Lost in Time , I thought I share with you a brief excerpt. A little teaser, if you like. Having written several historical novels, getting my writing mind to accept modern technologies and communications is a bit bizarre. But I'll get this done, one way or another! lol About Love Lost in Time: Maddie Winters, a history lecturer and author, inherits her late French mother's house near the historic town of Carcassonne in the south-west of France. During renovation works, she discovers several ancient bones which turn out to belong to a woman who had lived in the area, then called Septimania, over 1,200 years earlier. But just who was she? And why was she not buried properly? Excerpt: The silence of the house unnerved Maddie. Only in remote places had she experienced such quiet. Out in the open countryside she’d welcomed it. The past was talking to her there, in ancient ruins or...