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| Baltimore, Maryland – Present Day Assistant Professor Clara Fernsby loves history and has all the college degrees to prove it. She is currently teaching history at the college level, which has allowed her the opportunity to apply for tenure. At the start of the new school year, she was informed that she would be sharing her office with a visiting scholar. Clara doesn’t ask his name, but she gets a funny feeling. That feeling comes to fruition when she discovers the visiting scholar is her old best friend, Theodore “Teddy” Harrison. Clara now feels like the walls from her past are closing in on her. Clara and Teddy first met spending autumns together at a sleepaway camp in the Blue Ridge Mountains as teenagers. They clicked and continued to keep in contact with each other even when they were not in camp. Their friendship lasted for years, and in GIVEN OUR HISTORY, it flips from the present day to various stages of their past. Clara had one goal in life: to finish her education and get a job at a university. She rarely veered away from her goals, and it was something she had in common with Teddy. After all, his ambitions were the same as hers…until they weren’t. At one point, her friendship with Teddy spilled over into a romance but it ended badly. With him back in Clara’s life, she is afraid of falling in love, but she may again lose the man she cares a lot for. When Clara’s father had an accident years ago, she watched her mother go to work and she began to take care of her sister, who currently lives with her as she attends college. Clara hopes that by winning tenure she can get tuition breaks for her sister. Is she too focused on what she wants and not what she needs? Teddy is back, and the friendship resumes, as does the attraction that slowly built years ago. He will be leaving in six months, which means they will be saying goodbye again. Is that the extent of their relationship? Go into and out of each other’s lives? GIVEN OUR HISTORY is a poignant tale of discovering your true feelings after spending your life thinking there was only one path. Clara clearly loves Teddy, but she doesn’t see a future for them. He has goals, yet they don’t apparently mesh with hers. Will something happen to make her change her mind? GIVEN OUR HISTORY is beautifully told and is a fascinating tale that you don’t want to miss. Patti Fischer |
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GIVEN OUR HISTORY – Kristyn J. Miller