A Portrait of Eleanor: A Time-Travel Regency Romance
She had gazed from a frame for two hundred years. Then someone looked back.
In most time-travel love stories, a modern woman visits the past. This sweet, slow-burn Regency sends a man from the future one-way into the early nineteenth century.
Eleanor Cuddington has spent her eighteen years perfecting the art of quiet endurance, carefully hiding a heart that longs for something deeper than polite courtship and safe expectations. Her portrait captures that longing perfectly: the eyes of a young woman burning with a fierce, unspoken question that no one in her world has ever answered.
Two centuries later, James Ashdown stands transfixed before the same portrait. The brass plate tells of her untimely end, but he can choose a new beginning for them both.
When Mr. Ashdown arrives in her Hertfordshire village, Eleanor is immediately drawn to a man who already seems to know her. Yet she is not the only one captivated. The parish’s most accomplished beauty has designs on the newcomer, while another young woman shows a boldness above her station. Eleanor must decide what she will risk for the man who has awakened her heart and mind.
A clean, emotional love story about a portrait, a man who makes a bold leap, and a woman who stops merely enduring.