Tuesday, May 17, 2022

Speakeasy by Elyse Douglas

Speakeasy by Elyse Douglas
Speakeasy: A Time Travel Novel by Elyse Douglas

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! 

Speakeasy by Elyse Douglas

About Elyse Douglas


Elyse Douglas is the pen name for the married writing team Elyse Parmentier and Douglas Pennington. She and her husband, Douglas Pennington, have completed many novels, including The Other Side of Summer, The Summer Letters, The Christmas Eve Series, Time Visitor, Time Change, The Summer Diary, and The Christmas Diary Series.


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