Train Stories--All Aboard

 

We love riding on trains and have written 5 stories that take place on them.

Two are time travel stories that take place in the 19th century:

Travelers in Time Aboard the California Zephyr

Amazon Link: https://amzn.to/3IxMLSt

Travelers in Time: A Search for the Missing

Amazon Link: https://amzn.to/41tULwi

One is a cozy mystery:

Murder aboard the Coast Starlight

Amazon Link: https://amzn.to/3Iug9Jf

One is a love story:

Love Gets a Second Chance

Amazon Link: https://amzn.to/3EDCXVI

One takes place in the 19th century and is about an 18-year-old girl's adventures when she lived in railroad camps during the building of the transcontinental railroad.

Hell on Wheels: My Adventures 

Amazon Link: https://amzn.to/3KHCEgy

We hope you'll be an armchair traveler and take a look at any of these books. Thanks.    

High School Sweethearts on the Coast Starlight

Description:

 This love story, a cross between The Notebook and Last Tango in Halifax, is about an older couple who are reunited after being away from each other since high school. In her late 60s, Madeline has been diagnosed with cancer and told that she has only a few months to live.

She takes a scenic long-distance train trip aboard The Coast Starlight, where she once again sees Jay, her first love, and they pick up right where they left off and have a wonderful time in Seattle, where he proposes and gives her a whole new lease on life. How long does she have left to live? Readers will be pleasantly surprised.

Available at: Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Apple Books, Google Play Books, Smashwords, Kobo Books, and Scribd.

Amazon Links:

eBook $2.99 : https://amzn.to/3RJiaW2

Paperback $5.99: https://amzn.to/3ySeU1Y

Our Trip Aboard Amtrak's Coast Starlight

 

My husband and I just came back from a wonderful trip aboard the Coast Starlight, traveling from LA up to Seattle and back.

 Highlights: viewing the unspoiled California coastlines from our sleeper car bedroom, admiring the fall leaves in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, and being lucky enough to see the snow-capped top of Mount Shasta peeking through the clouds as the train rolled on and we ate a delicious lunch in the diner car. 

 It was our second trip on the Coast Starlight; we traveled to Salinas two years ago and when I came home, I wrote this bittersweet love story about two ex-lovers who unexpectantly meet again aboard the Coast Starlight.  

Love Gets a Second Chance 

Here's where you can purchase it for $2.99. 

Amazon:

https://amzn.to/3CIiBIk

Barnes and Noble: 

https://bit.ly/37EUcVK

Apple: 

https://apple.co/3fVje7N

Smashwords: 

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1098394

Kobo: 

https://bit.ly/3fUUtIU

Google Play:

https://bit.ly/3wsaUDI

Amtrak's Coast Starlight

 

I'm so excited about traveling aboard the scenic Coast Starlight a week from tomorrow. This Amtrak route on America's west coast has been described as one of the most beautiful train rides in America.

I'll be traveling from Los Angeles to Seattle and look forward to seeing unspoiled views of the California coastline, fall foliage in the forests of Northern California and Oregon, and the splendor of Mount Shasta and Mount Rainer in Washington. 

This is my second trip on the Coast Starlight and I booked a bedroom in one of the sleeper cars. All meals are included in the price. My room has a sofa that converts into a double-size bed, its own private bathroom and shower, a locked door from the inside, and two comfortable seats on each side of a small table that are right next to a large window where I can watch as the countryside roll by.  

In this time of COVID, the privacy of my own room where I don't have to worry about social distancing or wear a mask, as I would if I were traveling business or coach, is especially appreciated.

I write murder mysteries with my husband (under the pen name Louise Hathaway) and one of my cozy mysteries takes place on the Coast Starlight. I began writing this when I last traveled on the train ride.

Here's what it's about:

In this intriguing cozy 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?

Only $1.99 at the following online bookstores: 

Amazon: https://amzn.to/33NmnzD

Barnes and Noble: https://bit.ly/32RJMR7

Apple: https://apple.co/3kDNe85

Smashwords: https://bit.ly/3ckxp35

Kobo: https://bit.ly/3kCJnIj

Google: https://bit.ly/33QCw7o

Also Available in paperback for $5.99 at Amazon: https://amzn.to/2YXJyJk

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