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Summersea

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What a magical book. Once I started, I couldn't stop. When Bianca Wilder decides to prolong a summer job at a resort hotel on the New Jersey shore, she never imagines the world she will find, perfectly tailored to her tastes. The huge, decaying old Victorian that overlooks a superhighway, but stands its ground, and speaks of more than seventy years of golden summer memories.....when all thirty bedrooms were filled, tea was served in the solarium, croquet was played on the sprawling lawn, and the beautifully carved mahogany ballroom doors opened....to the last ball of the season. Now that many guests are dead and gone, the 80 year old owners, Sarah and Andrew support their floundering hotel on social security checks and the kindness of certain purveyors of antiques in town.
Bianca is a film student, who feels like a fish out of water in her own "time". She hates plastic, condominiums, smog, fast food, and womens' libbers. She feels pulled back into Summersea's "time"....and soon, her fantasies of how good it used to be turn into a reality that she can enter, *almost* whenever she wants. In the past, she finds true love, and far more interesting people. But what happens when summer is over? Read and find out!

this book gets under your skin and in your heart; i have read it many times and love it each time. i even wrote a letter to ms. lottman and got a personal response, that i cherish. one of my all time favorites.

"Summersea was a faded Victorian mansion that beautiful young Bianca fell in love with the moment she entered its doors. The kinfly old couple who owned it, its ghostly elegance, its romantic aura, were far from the modern world that Bianca longed to escape.

"Then, one night, the dreams began, as Bianca moved back through corridors of time to the enchanted year of 1924, where in a wondrous world of eternal summer a handsome lover whirled her in a dance she never wanted to end.

"The present and the past. Illusion and reality. Sanity and madness. Bianca no longer knew which was which, as two different worlds warred for possession of her body and her soul..."

Eileen Lottman created a magical story of love against time. The book was written in 1975, so when read now it sheds light on another time long past, the '70s. Bianca is a college student who isn't happy with the way things are going. When she talks the old couple into letting her spend winter at the inn, she discovers a portal to 1924, and a young man who falls in love with her.

As the semester passes by, she finds herself drawn more and more into the world of 1924, and becomes removed from her present day friends and a part time boyfriend who is more trouble than he's worth. The old couple warn her not to let herself get trapped in the past, but it may be too late. She is hooked.

The writing flows so smoothly you won't want to put it down. You will fall in love with Bianca and the old couple. This is well worth tracking down and it should be brought back into print. It is every bit as entertaining as "Somewhere in Time" by Richard Matheson and "Time and Again" by Jack Finney. Fans of those should check this out. The ending is a bit ambiguous and some of the cultural references are misspelled, but the journey through this book is one you should not miss.

Ms. Eileen Lottman is a very talented and gifted author. Summersea captures your heart and takes you back to a time when true chivalry was very much alive. This book is truly magical and definitely the best romance I ever read.

Time travel is always an intersting topic, but this story takes it almost literally to the next dimension. It's a fun, fast-paced read that introduces you to a variety of interesting people in basically three different time periods all at once and yet never together. Very difficult to describe here, but very easy to read in the book. It especially fun because it was written in 1975, so you get a good flashback on what high school was like back then. Buy this book immediately.