About A Slow Burn, Feel-Good Small Town Time Travel Romance Back to Francoist Spain by Jessie Winterspring
What if the future is predetermined and nothing you do can change it?
All he wanted was to go back to the future, but that also meant living in a world without her.
– Leonardo-
My world turned upside down when I broke a bottle containing a wish. I’m an easy-going person, and I hate anything brainy, but the damn bottle made me travel back in time, back to 1956 when Abuela was only nineteen. Younger than me!
I might need to use my brain to figure out how to return to 2020, preferably before I alter my grandparents’ history. Befriending them isn’t part of the plan, and falling for Celestina, my abuela’s future best friend, is definitely not supposed to happen.
– Celestina –
All Celestina wanted was her mother’s love, but because she’s a product of rape, she learned to accept that her dream would never come true. However, when Leonardo materialized out of her bottle in front of her, she thought that if magic was possible, her wishes might not be out of reach.
In Another Time is a time-travel romance set in Beniardà, a small sun-drenched village in Francoist Spain, where time seemed to be standing still.
If you’re a fan of slow-burn, age gap trope, and romance over lust, then this book is for you. Grab your copy now to join Leonardo and Celestina on a journey across the decades for love.
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Author Bio:
I’m a Filipina romance author living in Spain. I never planned what tropes to include in my writing, but after paying attention to what I’ve already written, I found out that I tend to favor found families, cheerful characters with dark experiences, and goofy, adorkable, and brooding heroes/heroines.
I mostly write stories with time travel and paranormal elements, but I’ve published a few contemporary short stories and novellas years ago using another name. I have more than a dozen in my drafts now, but those are complete crap, and the mere thought of rewriting them makes me want to pull my hair out. They’ll stay a work-in-progress for a while.
As a kid, I wanted to be a doctor, but when I developed a fear of blood after a traumatizing experience of being forced to watch The Omen Trilogy by my parents’ religion when I was eight, I decided it’s better to be a lawyer. However, financial restraints aside, it was obvious that my temper would land me in prison instead, so I worked as an assistant designer for 15 years, while asserting dominance on my reluctant characters, until COVID hit.
With so many broken dreams, I often daydream of traveling through time, but this dream is more impossible than the first two, so I did the next best thing. I write about them and send my characters on adventures of their lives. How lucky for them.
The first time-travel story I’d written was FUMES VARIOLAS during National Novel Writing Month in 2013 (not published yet). However, IN ANOTHER TIME was the first story idea I came up with back in 2006 while driving on the autobahn in Germany. It was during one of our many cross-country road trips from Spain to Norway. I wrote no notes for it, but the story lived in my head. I wrote many other romances through the years before I finally sat down and wrote it in November 2019. Three months writing. One year revising and four years of agonizing edits with five editors before I finally decided to release it in October 2024.
As a reader, I love reading different types of fiction, but I avoid gory and certain horror stories. You can probably guess why.
I have a strong affection for animals and nature. I live near the Mediterranean coast with my family and enjoy spending my time reading and falling in love with fictional characters. I also enjoy watching movies, telenovelas, Asian dramas, and anime while eating noodles with chopsticks and drooling over ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s music videos.
When I’m not writing or reading, you can usually catch me on Instagram and occasionally posting a short story on my blog.