Jane O'Brien

Filled with nostalgia, Fran spreads the quilts across the room, and while shedding tears for the loss of her grandmother, she suddenly finds herself transported to 1875, and she is not even sure how she got there....

Skye is a twenty-year-old, dark-haired beauty who is bored to death with her life in 1907. She has always been a free spirit and challenger of what was expected of her....

How long can Fran and Dora live in a world they were not born to? How long can the sisters hold on to their lives in the 1800s before the universe takes charge and returns them to their rightful places? These are the questions they both fear, as well as the husbands they love so dearly....

In the summer of 1941, World War II is taking hold and causing havoc around the globe. Each of the Clark boys is affected in a different way. Jay wants to continue his college education and become a doctor. Bob just wants to have fun and meet girls....

Ten years after two little boys unexpectedly arrived in 1882 for a short time-travel visit, they have changed and grown to near adult status–one a late teen in high school, and one a young man in college....

It was the year 1932 when Johnny and Bobby played with their father’s pocket watch. They were shocked to discover they were mysteriously whisked away to the year 1882, where they found themselves on the boardwalk of the Twin Lake depot....

Changes abound in Twin Lake and Holton, as some people leave and new people arrive. There is joy to share and mysteries to solve. There is love and laughter, birth and death, and new growth....

When something unusual happens, it causes them to not end up in the same time and place. Daniel is concerned about Ginny, wondering how she will handle herself. Is she afraid of being on her own? Is she capable of surviving in a century that is so foreign to her? Find out....

The saga of the Graingers and the Clarks continues in Twin Lake/Holton in both the 19th and the 21st centuries. Daniel has disappeared from 1881 and is back home in his own era, where he meets a strangely familiar woman in the cemetery named Virginia....

Having come across some heirlooms in an old secretary drawer, he handles each one carefully, wondering who they belonged to and how they were connected to him....

Dora and Daniel find themselves in a marriage that’s barely hanging on by a thread, until a tragedy binds them together; but for how long? is more problematic than ever. Every character we have grown to know and love has a trouble or "woe" of their own....

Yesterday's Dreams, book three in O'Brien's series called A Slip in Time, continues with our favorite characters. The two sisters each love a Grainger brother, but one love has been fulfilled, while the other love is torn apart by two different centuries....

Yesterday's Hopes, book two in O'Brien's newest series, A Slip in Time, continues with Dora trying to find her sister. As she becomes aware of the possibility of time travel, she begins to explore how she, too, can do the same in order to find Fran....