FOOLS' GOLD
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High Concept;
Matthias Gilchrist and Abigail Reed.
Timestruck
lovers, they were brought together by a golden chance, parted by mistrust. Can the
Wandering Nugget work its miracle again?
The Wandering Nugget.
Fools' gold,
or a treasure beyond price?
Matthias
loses it and Abigail finds it - she has also found an adventure that will last
for the rest of her life.
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The
time is the 1860s, and Matthias Gilchrist is disillusioned with life. His
betrothed, Jemima Snow, has been persuaded to marry someone else. Hoping to
strike a fortune and persuade Jemima's father to change his mind and honour his
promise, Matthias leaves his carpenter's shop and heads for the goldfields of
Nugget Creek. With his taciturn companion Henry Boatwright, Matthias stakes a
claim and begins to search for gold.
Here, in the
aftermath of a thunderstorm, he meets the love of his life, who has fallen out
of the future.
The time is
2001 and Abigail Reed, editor of Aurora magazine, is in limbo. Her
fiancé, John, has been called away on urgent family business. The wedding is
postponed, so Abigail decides to walk down memory lane. With her cousin, Zac,
she heads for her childhood home in the ghost town of Nugget Creek - and
tumbles out of time to meet the love of her life.
Falling in
love is easy, but how can Abigail marry her man when he believes she is a
foundling who has lost her memory?
And what
will happen when they hear that Matthias' first love, Jemima Snow, is dying?
Jemima could be cured in the future, if only Abigail dares to make a stand.
There are so
many questions and so many answers, but the key to them all is the wandering
nugget.
Is their
love a treasure beyond price? Or is it just fools' gold?
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Fools' Gold was published as an e-book by RFI
WEST in 2000 and may be in paperback in late 2003.
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