Train Stories

Do you like to take long-distance train rides? My husband and I are train buffs and have taken The California Zephyr from LA to Denver, the Coast Starlight from LA to Salinas, and the Sunset Limited from LA to New Orleans. It's a great way to see the country and for writers, like we are, it's a wonderful opportunity to have some peace and quiet in order to write without interruption.

We have written 3 novels that take place on trains while we were in our bedrooms aboard Amtrak's sleeper cars. Two are time travel stories and one is a cozy mystery. We hope you'll take a look. They are available at your favorite online bookstores including, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Apple, Google Play, Smashwords, and Kobo. I've included the Amazon buy links for each of the three novels. Here are their titles and descriptions:

Travelers in Time Aboard the California Zephyr

Do you like trains? Do you like history? If so, take a look at this time travel tale about modern Amtrak travelers who go back in time to the days when the transcontinental railroad was being built. Our passengers become part of a real-life special excursion train and meet Rutherford B. Hayes, George Pullman, and Robert Todd Lincoln. How will our time travelers cope with their new surroundings? Will they ever come back to the 21st Century? Will they want to come back? Find out and take a trip into history.

https://amzn.to/3jniXex

Travelers in Time: A Search for the Missing

In this time travel tale, two sisters go back to the 1860s to search for their missing parents who had earlier gone on a time travel trip of their own and decided not to return home, much to their daughters' surprise. The sisters have many adventures during their journey and meet several interesting characters along the way.

 There is a lot of history and research that went into this story--not to mention, a lot of heart and soul. The story takes place during the building of the transcontinental railroad and the world of post-Civil War America. Meant to be enjoyed as a standalone story, this book is part of the Travelers in Time series.

https://amzn.to/3o5qqj8

Murder Aboard the Coast Starlight

In this intriguing murder mystery, two sisters, one a homicide detective, the other an erotic romance writer, travel aboard Amtrak's scenic Coast Starlight from Los Angeles to Seattle when a famous movie star on the train is murdered. Then, to make matters worse, a forest fire in Oregon stops the train dead in its tracks with the killer still onboard. With a cast of characters who seem to have a motive for murder, will two detectives be able to figure out the killer's ingenious plot in time before someone else ends up dead?

https://amzn.to/3fUr8yM