description: Lord Edward Grayson is an eighteenth-century Renaissance man, whose superior intelligence and education put him at odds with his aristocratic peers and the British army into which his sense of adventure led him. Invalided out with a painful souvenir of war lodged in his back, he is sent to Brighton by the Home Office to investigate a suspicious colonial woman working as a tavern maid. His search of her room finds odd, indecent clothing and unidentifiable, sinister “things.” Dr. Holy Stewart is a sassy dynamo of positive energy with a gift for healing. Fortunately, she has resilience and stamina, because she inexplicably misplaced the twenty-first century. She is all wrong for 1780 – wrong clothes, wrong money, wrong knowledge, wrong attitude. Her first response to finding Edward in her room is not defense, but comedy. “A man with a tampon doesn’t seem that dangerous.” Raised on Star Trek’s Prime Directive, Holly is determined to keep her origins to herself. That works for about ten minutes after meeting Edward. After her quick martial arts response to his ill-judged attempt to restrain her and her ministering to his consequent ills rather than escaping, they realize the need for mutual trust. They begin an eventful journey through southern England to sanctuary at Edward’s ancestral home accompanied by a clash of centuries. While snow-bound at an inn, Edward and two stablemen assist Holly in performing emergency surgery with twenty-first century know-how and a mighty strange use of eighteenth century kitchen and farm implements. Subsequently, Holly repairs Edward’s back. As their adventure continues, they foil an international conspiracy and face down escaped prisoners, murder threats, and an infamous witch-hunter, juggling anachronisms all the way. 
title: A Glitch in Time