A Very Civil War

Con's life in the small Cotswold village where she spent an idyllic childhood is nothing out of the ordinary, which is good because she likes ordinary. She likes safe.. Her three boisterous nephews have come to stay for the summer holidays and she's determined to show them that life in the countryside can be fun - she has no idea just how exciting it's about to get.. Whilst out exploring with them in the fields near the village, they find themselves face to face with a Roundhead colonel from the English Civil Wars and, due to some glitching twenty-first century technology, Con is suddenly transported back to 1645 and into a world she only recognises from books and historical dramas on television. She reluctantly falls for the gruff colonel, who is recovering from injuries sustained in recent hostilities with Royalists but has to battle archaic attitudes and unexpected violence in order to survive.. With no way of getting back to her family and her nice secure real life and unable to reveal who she really is, for fear of being thought a witch, Con struggles to acclimatise to her new world. She must fight her growing feelings for Colonel Sir Lucas Deverell and deal with the daily problems of life in the seventeenth century and the encroaching war. When she intervenes to save a dying man, suspicions are raised and she begins to fear for her life, with enemies on all sides.. Constance Harcourt discovers a love that crosses centuries and all barriers, but which could potentially end in heartbreak.Can the power of True Love overcome the power of the Universe?. This is a Time-Slip story filled with passionate romance, the very real threat of persecution and war, the beauty of the Cotswolds and touches of Beauty and the Beast.