Finding Emilia — Jacqueline Varlotta

Emilia Treymore wants more from life than what she knows. Growing up in the 19th century during the turmoil of the 1800's right before and into the Civil War, Emilia flees her home Treymore Hall in Charleston South Carolina to follow her dreams of becoming an actress or playwright on Broadway New York. Forced to hide the 'gift' she has inherited from her ancestors, and unable to bear the confining life of a 'proper' southern belle, Emilia seizes a chance to run away but makes one last stop at her brother's plantation Willow Manor to walk the Gardenia Garden she has loved so much. An unexpected twist of events finds her flung from the past of 1865 to the early era of the 1960's. Frightened, confused, yet undaunted, Emilia refuses to let what has happened to her keep her from pursuing her dreams, even if her past comes back to haunt her... Anthony Phipps goes searching for Emilia on the grounds of Willow Manor in 1865 after she disappears, but suddenly finds himself in another time, another place - In fact- another century than the one he has known. Confused, and unable to find his way back to the past, Anthony unexpectedly comes across the one person he has been searching for. Emilia. But a tragic turn of events causes him to lose his memory until images of a young girl surface and memories of the 1800's lead him on a path to find the one person who is the only one that can help him figure out whom he truly is.... Willow Manor - A plantation with an 'open doorway' through time on the banks of the Ashley River in Charleston South Carolina, flings two people into another century and all they have left behind in the past is gone - but a future awaits that is more haunting than they have ever imagined....