"An Hour Unspent " by Roseanna M. White Book Tour and GiveAway

About the Book

Once London’s top thief, Barclay Pearce has turned his back on his life of crime and now uses his skills for a nation at war. But not until he rescues a clockmaker’s daughter from a mugging does he begin to wonder what his future might hold.

Evelina Manning has constantly fought for independence but she certainly never meant for it to inspire her fiancé to end the engagement and enlist in the army. When the intriguing man who saved her returns to the Manning residence to study clockwork repair with her father, she can’t help being interested. But she soon learns that nothing with Barclay Pearce is as simple as it seems.

As 1915 England plunges ever deeper into war, the work of an ingenious clockmaker may give England an unbeatable military edge—and Germany realizes it as well. Evelina’s father soon finds his whole family in danger—and it may just take a reformed thief to steal the time they need to escape it.

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My Review
"An Hour Unspent" by Roseanna M. White is the third book in the "Shadows Over England" Series. It is a perfect ending to the trilogy, but I so want to read more of these characters.

I like that the author takes real history and adds fiction to make these stories come alive in the reader's mind. Not only do I appreciate the history facts in the story, but I also appreciate how she puts wisdom of truth in her stories. In this book, she shows how God, who I think she refers to as the ultimate time maker knows all and he keeps the gears all working as they should.

Her titles really fit the storyline. In"An Hour Unspent" Barclay Pearce is reunited with family from his past and has to rescues a clockmaker from a kidnapper and has to figured out how to steal an hour from Big Ben.

I recommend reading all three stories in the order they were written but I believe a reader would enjoy them as stand alone but they would be missing out on the best part that really shows the love and loyalty that these family members have for each other. These books show that family isn't always blood related but what's in your heart is what makes someone family.

"An Hour Unspent" ends with a reminder that none of us deserved the grace that Our Heavenly Father has offered us. It always reminds us that time is best spent with "Family."  Here is a quote;

"Mr.Manning....a man has only so much time upon this earth. It seems to me that if you spend it all regretting what you haven't accomplished, you've only managed to waste what hours you have, which you ought to be spending with the people who make them count."

I am going to end this review with this read "An Hour Unspent" and learn truth about family and learn history and be encouraged that you are in the ultimate Time Maker's hands.

I received a complimentary copy from the author and Celebrate Lit. These opinion are my own.

About the Author

 

Roseanna M. White is a bestselling, Christy Award nominated author who has long claimed that words are the air she breathes. When not writing fiction, she’s homeschooling her two kids, editing, designing book covers, and pretending her house will clean itself. Roseanna is the author of a slew of historical novels that span several continents and thousands of years. Spies and war and mayhem always seem to find their way into her books…to offset her real life, which is blessedly ordinary. You can learn more about her and her stories at www.RoseannaMWhite.com.

Guest Post from Roseanna

Last year, as I finished up the writing of An Hour Unspent, my great-grandmother passed away at the age of 103. As I sat at her funeral service and listened to the heartfelt memorial raised up to her by her kids and grandkids, I realized anew that this woman had been a matriarch in the truest sense of the word. She’d taught my family for generations how to love the Lord and each other, how to serve the Lord and each other, and how to trust the Lord and each other. Grandma Seward was, in so many ways, the one who instilled in me my idea of what family really is. That idea—that it’s those knit together by love more than blood, and that faith is the strongest foundation—is what I built my unusual family of thieves upon in the Shadows Over England series. And strange as it is to liken my twenty-something reformed-thief hero to my 103-year-old-grandmother, Barclay Pearce is very much to his family what Maxine Seward was to mine. The founder. The caregiver. The leader. I knew as I began the series that I would write about Barclay in book three, and as I got to know him better throughout the series, I grew so excited to share his story! This is a man who led his family first into and then out of a life a crime, always for the right reasons—so he could provide for the children under his care. All he ever wanted to do was give them what he himself had lost. To show them love. To prove to them that they were worth any sacrifice. It was truly a blessing for me to get to write the story in which Barclay found someone to come alongside him, to appreciate and learn to understand him. To finally share what started him down this path. I loved the idea that only a reformed thief could steal the time another family needed to overcome their own trials. There are many historical items in the book that were such fun to explore—watchmaking of the era, the suffrage movement in England, technological advancements of the war—but at the heart, this isn’t a story about any of those. It’s a story about how far people should go for love. I hope you enjoy Barclay’s story as much as I did!

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Giveaway

To celebrate her tour, Roseanna is giving away a grand prize of a signed book, a London mug, and a 48-pack Twinings tea sampler!!

Be sure to comment on the blog stops for nine extra entries into the giveaway! Click the link below to enter. https://promosimple.com/ps/d570/an-hour-unspent-celebration-tour-giveaway