{"product_id":"echoes-in-time-the-bracey-general-store-a-lake-gaston-mystery-paperback","title":"Echoes in Time: The Bracey General Store - A Lake Gaston Mystery - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKathy M. Thompson\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJohn Bernard Jr. Thompson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA mysterious 1919 photograph. A forgotten diary. A time-bending secret buried in a small Virginia town.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEchoes 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHalf 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEchoes in Time is perfect for readers who enjoy historical mysteries, regional Virginia history, time-slip and time travel fiction, dual-timeline novels, Southern historical fiction, and small-town family-secret dramas. With atmospheric storytelling, rich 1919 period detail, and quiet speculative tension, this novel explores destiny, loss, courage, and the unseen threads that bind families across decades. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the Lake Gaston Short-Story Series, where regional history and imagined mysteries blend into atmospheric short fiction.\u003cbr\u003e \n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 118\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.28 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 10, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49376169197707,"sku":"9798896601845","price":26.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0670\/2579\/7259\/files\/JLN5jYX5Pp9798896601845.webp?v=1789581114","url":"https:\/\/thetaletrade.com\/products\/echoes-in-time-the-bracey-general-store-a-lake-gaston-mystery-paperback","provider":"The Tale Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}