Journey Into The Past [Paperback]

Abe F. March (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 20, 2009

When fate decrees that the paths of a vacationing American architect and a retired German businessman cross, the soul-mates embark on a journey through time that takes them into the past, a journey triggered by a series of mysterious, hidden love notes written centuries before. Would this be the lifetime their love would finally be allowed?

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About the Author

Abraham F. March is an international business consultant and author, living near Landau, Germany with his wife Gisela. An active retiree, he enjoys hiking and exploring the local vineyards and can also be heard singing with a regional men's choir. Mr. March's career has taken him around the world to work in many areas from his birthplace in the USA to Canada, Europe and the Middle East.

Product Details

• Paperback: 222 pages
• Publisher: All Things That Matter press (May 20, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0982272286
• ISBN-13: 978-0982272282
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,815,530 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Abraham F. March (Abe F. March) is an international business consultant and author, living near Landau, Germany with his wife Gisela. An active retiree, he enjoys hiking and exploring the local vineyards and can also be heard singing with a regional mens choir. Mr. March's career has taken him around the world to work in many areas from his birthplace in the USA to Canada, Europe and the Middle East.
Mr. March grew up in York County, Pennsylvania on the family farm, and he served in the USAF from 1957-61. His business career got underway with the computing sciences division of IBM's service bureau where he held positions as manager of administration and operations analyst. He later joined an international cosmetic company where he rapidly achieved top distributor status and was promoted to vice president of sales development and product market management, an opportunity which took throughout the USA and into Canada, Greece and Germany.
With international experience and an entrepreneurial spirit, Mr. March started his own importing business headquartered in Beirut, Lebanon, for the distribution of cosmetics and toiletries to the Middle East markets. With ease about him and a talent for developing business relationships, he also functioned as a locator of goods and services sought by Mid-Eastern clients before the civil war in Lebanon destroyed his successful business enterprise. Mr. March returned to the United States to start over, and was soon working on an international level once again. His subsequent work involved Swan Technologies, Inc., a personal computer manufacturer in West Germany, and back to the US to work with Stork NV, supporting a fleet of 1200 Fokker Aircraft.
His first book, "To Beirut and Back - An American in the Middle East" was published in 2006, and is a memoir of his adventures that took him to Lebanon in the 1970s.
His second book, "They Plotted Revenge Against America" published in 2009, was inspired by America's invasion of Iraq.
His third book, "Journey Into The Past," with contributing author Lynn Jett, was published in 2009. It is a time travel romance story with setting among the ancient castles of Germany.
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Since my retirement, I have published three novels about my experiences in the Middle East and Germany. I'm currently living near Landau, Germany with my wife Gisela. I enjoy hiking, exploring the local vineyards, and I sing in regional choirs. My career has taken me from my birthplace in the USA to Canada, Europe and the Middle East.

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4.0 out of 5 stars True Love Transcends All Boundaries, September 16, 2009

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Apex Reviews (Durham, NC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Journey Into The Past (Paperback)

Young, attractive, and successful, Heather Wilson is a force to be reckoned with. A star on the rise in one of the most powerful architectural firms in the country, she appears to have it all - that is, until she walks in on her husband of 18 years in the heat of passion with another woman. In the ensuing emotional fallout, she tries to bury herself in work, but when she happens across a photo of an ancient German castle one day, she is instantly drawn to it - and the older gentleman staring back at her from within it - for reasons she can't fully explain, and she soon embarks on a journey to the site in order to explore her feelings further.

Upon her arrival, she meets Hans, the gentleman from the photo, and the two of them form a connection that soon evolves into all-out attraction - the only problem: he's a married man, and his wife has been in a coma for five years; nonetheless, Hans can't deny the intensity of the bond between him and Heather, and, despite his loyalty to his beloved, he can't resist indulging in the burgeoning passion that soon consumes them both.

What neither Heather nor Hans realize, though, is that the attraction they feel for one another has deep spiritual roots and has endured for centuries - and the ultimate outcome of their not-so-random encounter lies just beyond the scope of their control...

Journey Into The Past is a touching tale of the incomparable power of fate. In it, author Abe March takes the reader on a compelling journey through the mysterious inner workings of the heart, putting on full display just how mercurial the world of emotions can often be. He also treats the reader to a revealing trek through the culture, countryside, and fascinating history of Germany, lending his narrative a healthy dose of genuine authenticity.

Love comes in many different forms, some of which often take us completely by surprise. In Journey Into The Past, though, Abe March does a skillful job of proving that, no matter which form it ultimately takes, true love transcends all boundaries - even those of space and time.

Linda Waterson
Apex Reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars A gentle and mysterious love story, June 19, 2009

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Malcolm R. Campbell "The Sun Singer" (Northeast Georgia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Journey Into The Past (Paperback)

The castle ruins and wine villages of Germany's Palatinate region comprise the setting for a sudden romance between San Francisco architect Heather Wilson and retired business consultant Johann Hess in Abe F. March's charming and gently told "Journey Into the Past."

Heather Wilson needs a long vacation after finishing a massive project and, while she has tickets to Tahiti, a poster-sized photograph of Landeck Castle in the cubicle of one the firm's new employees suddenly changes her travel destination and, quite possibly, her life. The twelfth-century German ruin captures her architect's eye. But the man in the photograph, the new hire's uncle, has captured something else, not her heart exactly, but in some odd way her soul; and that night she dreams of another woman in another age almost as though she was there.

Heather flies to Frankfurt and drives two hours to the castle and before she can cross the wooden bridge and go inside, there he is, as though the photograph has come to life. She introduces herself and mentions that she knows his nephew, and soon he has agreed to show her this and other castle ruins along the famous wine route. Their sudden attraction to each other defies logic and--when they touch certain parts of stone walls--the synchronicity of their meeting and their mutual interest in the ruins also defies time.

Abe F. March's characters come from different backgrounds. Wilson is a young, decently divorced professional with an American take-charge attitude. Hess, who has thoroughly integrated his habits and focus into the lifestyle of the region, is older and conservatively formal. He also has an institutionalized wife who has been in a coma for five years. As they tour the region, they discover a strange link between their trip and the events that happened long before they were born.

They have a mystery to solve and they are part of the solution. March, who knows the setting of his story well, has an eye for detail and a veteran storyteller's approach to a good mystery. Why such urgent passion? What's the sense of the dreams and visions of two long-ago star crossed lovers? Heather and Johann's search for answers represents the kind of quest that cannot be denied even though following it through may create a complicated tangle of their lives. March knows how to pull readers into an exciting world and keep them there.