A single act of kindness...a mysterious gold coin, a bolt of lightning...a touch of gypsy magic: the recipe for love across time. Sarah Douglas is 23, beautiful, smart and about to marry the perfect guy. Level-headed, nice-looking, honest and intelligent, David du Bois is not only the son of her father's business partner, but the kind of man any mom would want their daughter to marry. Right? Or so she thought...until her mother gives her a mysterious "good luck" charm on the eve of her wedding, telling her that it's a family tradition and if she keeps it with her all night, she will know her heart's true desire.Sarah thinks it's all just a bunch of silly "Gypsy hocus pocus" but she soon discovers that a walk in the night air and an eerie bolt of lightning is all it takes to sweep her out of the world she knows and into the arms of Dominic du Barbaronne-the handsome blue-eyed leader of a band of Romanies in the year 1363.
Dominic is everything Sarah has come to distrust in men...too good-looking, too sure of himself and way too passionate to ever be faithful to one woman. But stranded in the world of medieval France, with its lack of creature comfort and where women are treated as nothing more than chattel, Sarah finds she must place her trust in him to care for her basic needs and see to her protection until she can figure out a way home. Now if she could just figure out a way to stop feeling the things she is feeling for Dominic....and convince him that he must let her go despite the fact that he's as determined to keep her with him in the 14th century as she is to go back to her own time.
When fate deals a hand that may separate them forever, Sarah soon finds she can no longer deny the searing white hot love that spans across time itself. The kind that only comes in that special time and place When Lightning Strikes.
About the Author: After reading countless romance novels, Cynthia Lucas decided to follow in the footsteps of her grandmother's love of writing and try her hand at writing her own.
WHEN LIGHTNING STRIKES weaves time-travel, swashbuckling and heated romance, into a captivating love and adventure story that leaves the reader turning page after page until the very end.
The book was a #1 Best Seller in Kindle Edition in October and November of 2012, and continues to be a Top 100 Best Seller in Time Travel Romance on Amazon.com. After numerous requests for a sequel, Ms. Lucas released QUICKSILVER MOON in the fall of 2012 to glowing reviews. That second book in this series had been nominated and is a Finalist (Best Time Travel) in the 2012 RONE Awards which will be announced and awarded at the RNC Convention in Las Vegas, NV, in August of 2013.
Other titles by Ms. Lucas include, BLOOD FROM A STONE which was a Quarter Finalist in the 2013 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards, and is a Finalist (Best Paranormal) in the 2012 RONE Awards, and the upcoming release "SMOKE & MIRRORZ" due out in the summer of 2013.
When not writing her stories, Cynthia, who is also an award-winning vocalist, songwriter and lyricist, makes music on the weekends with her band NORTH 2 SOUTH on many stages, both large and small throughout Central Florida, where she resides with her husband of twenty-one years, their daughter and several pets, including exotic birds and various wildlife that she rehabs as a hobby.
