In Good Time: A Clean Western Culture Romance Story

By Aphra Crescas

In this romance story, a corporate executive (who really loves watches and clocks) makes the purchase of a lifetime. He goes to his favorite timekeeper's shop and is presented with a watch that is regarded as junk. Interestingly, it was mailed to the shop owner with no return address.

 

He (Jeff) brings the watch home and tinkers with it because the watch isn't working. He finally gets the watch to work, and it transports him to a future world that is corrupt and evil.

 

Jeff loves his wife so much, and is heart-shattered to the extreme. He meets up with her in the future and sees that she's remarried to another man, and has two kids with him. Even worse, he can't get back to his original time period because he was mugged and the watch was stolen.

 

Can he find a way to get back to the present time? Or, will he spend the rest of his life being heartbroken and depressed?

 

This is a standalone romance short story ending HEA!

• Language: English
• Publisher: PN.Books
• Release date: Jun 3, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393407720

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Title: In Good Time

Subtitle: A Clean Western Culture Romance Story

Author: Aphra Crescas

Table of Contents

Copyright

Title Page

In Good Time

Description

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

In Good Time

Description

In this romance story, a corporate executive (who really loves watches and clocks) makes the purchase of a lifetime. He goes to his favorite timekeeper’s shop and is presented with a watch that is regarded as junk. Interestingly, it was mailed to the shop owner with no return address.

He (Jeff) brings the watch home and tinkers with it because the watch isn’t working. He finally gets the watch to work, and it transports him to a future world that is corrupt and evil.

Jeff loves his wife so much, and is heart-shattered to the extreme. He meets up with her in the future and sees that she’s remarried to another man, and has two kids with him. Even worse, he can’t get back to his original time period because he was mugged and the watch was stolen.

Can he find a way to get back to the present time? Or, will he spend the rest of his life being heartbroken and depressed?

Chapter 1

He brushed his hand over the scalp of his young, blond head of hair. His day wasn’t too bad – by his standards. One employee termination, one hostile meeting, and some commonplace drama. He pulled through the day, shrugging his shoulders at the normal tensions and problems.

Welcome to Corporate America – where the days are often dramatic and tense. For a Vice President of Operations, Jeff’s vocational importance was great, and he handled it well. Sometimes, a rare bird enters the sky and flies through the scene beautifully. That was Jeff.

His most notable accomplishment was the fact that he helped steer his troubled company – First Choice Savings and Loan – through the worst recession since the Great Depression. Like many other banks at the time, his ended up on life support after a wave of unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcies, and economic collapse. He is the man. He made it work. To put it profanely, he kicks ass.

He has an odd fetish, too. He really likes watches and clocks. His coworkers always joke about the fact that it must explain his near-fanatical obsession about punctuality. Nobody, including Jeff, can explain why he loves watches, but he just does.

He shut the rickety door of one of his favorite stores. It made its standard, lopsided close. Jeff waved his single-watched hand at the shopkeeper of the ‘Time of Day’ store. Hey Steve. How’s your day going?

Steve delicately removed a