Publisher: Broadback (April 5, 2022)
Category: Time Travel, Historical Fiction Romance
Tour Dates May 3-June 30
ISBN: 979-8423229016
Available in Print and ebook, 375 pages
Description Speakeasy by Elyse Douglas
In 2019, A West Village Nightclub Singer, Roxie Raines, stumbles through a basement doorway into the past and finds herself in Roaring Twenties New York, with all its dangers, secrets, excitement, and romance.
Roxie Raines lurches through a secret basement doorway in 2019, and time-slips back to New York’s raucous Roaring Twenties. While she dazzles the speakeasy crowds with her “modern sound,” she gets trapped in the dangerous web of Frankie Shay, an evil club owner. She struggles to escape his control and return to the basement doorway that sent her to 1925.
When she meets the handsome detective, Jake Kane, it’s love at first sight, but Jake has a secret past, and her own time travel secret makes him suspicious.
Roaring Twenties New York comes alive with flappers, gangsters, romance and speakeasies and Roxie’s stunning rise to stardom could come with the price of losing both the man she loves and her own life.
Suzie's Review Speakeasy by Elyse Douglas
A thrilling time travel romance set in 1920's New York
City-- 'Speakeasy,' by Elyse Douglas is already my book of the year.
Following a 21st century woman who gets
sent back in time via a portal in the basement of the bar where she is
performing as a singer, this novel explores the roaring 20's in full
technicolor, pulling no punches.
The main character is a young woman named Roxie. A
strong, smart woman, Roxie is a singer who loves to perform music from the jazz
age, but doesn't often get the opportunity to do so in today's world. Enter
Speakeasy, a 1920's themed bar with a secret so big not even the owner seems to
be aware of it.
See, in the basement of this bar is a portal, and
stepping through the portal brings you to another time. And this is exactly
what happens to Roxie after she follows an intruder in the bar down to the
basement, finds the portal and, well, the rest is history—literally.
Roxie is instantly transported to 1925 New York where
she must deal with criminals, prohibition and a real lack of women's rights. Roxie
soon meets a detective named Jake Kade and the two feel an immediate pull
toward each other. But whether or not Roxie is going to be able to return to
her own time is a mystery that I won't spoil here!
This is a firecracker of a novel, and one that I
highly recommend to all historical fiction and time travel lovers. The plot is
enough to keep any reader guessing as to what is going to happen next and the
romance between Roxie and Jake made for a sizzling addition. I couldn't help
but wonder where things were going to go between them, and I was delighted with
the way it all worked out in the end.
Five out of five jazzy stars for this one!
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