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Echoes in Time: The Bracey General Store - A Lake Gaston Mystery

Echoes in Time: The Bracey General Store - A Lake Gaston Mystery

Thompson, Kathy M.
Thompson, John Bernard, Jr.

Paperback

Series: The Lake Gaston Short-Story, Book 3

FantasyMystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction

ISBN13: 9798896601845
Publisher: Self-Published
Published: Feb 10 2026
Pages: 118
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.28 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

A mysterious 1919 photograph. A forgotten diary. A time-bending secret buried in a small Virginia town.

Echoes in Time is a richly layered blend of historical fiction, speculative mystery, and Southern small-town suspense, set in the quiet community of Bracey, Virginia. The novel opens in 1919, when young Gladys captures a photograph that should not exist-an impossible image of two men who appear decades before their time. Disturbed by what she witnessed, she records her fears, her family's battle with the Spanish Flu, and the strange temporal disturbances surrounding them in a private diary she protects for fifty years.

Half a century later, historian Elliott Thompson and his trusted friend Jack uncover the mysterious photograph. But the deeper truth comes directly from Gladys herself. Now elderly, she entrusts them with selected pages from her long-guarded diary-revealing only the pieces she believes they are meant to see. What begins as a simple historical puzzle becomes a multi-generational mystery filled with impossible sightings, emotional confessions, and a time-bending paradox that challenges everything they believe about the past.

As Elliott and Jack follow Gladys's carefully chosen clues, they are drawn toward a reenactment designed to test the boundaries of time itself-forcing them to confront the possibility that stepping into history may alter their own.

Echoes in Time is perfect for readers who enjoy historical mysteries, Appalachian and regional history, time travel and time-slip fiction, dual-timeline novels, Southern historical fiction, and family-secret dramas. With atmospheric storytelling, rich period detail, and quiet speculative tension, this novel explores destiny, loss, courage, and the unseen threads that bind families across decades.

From the Lake Gaston Short-Story Series, where regional history, whispered legends, and imagined mysteries blend into atmospheric short fiction.

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