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Dear Maude (The Dear Maude Trilogy Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Denise Liebig (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 1,086 ratings
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Emily thought her college scholarship was a step forward...
But it turned out to be a step backward... IN TIME


Dear Maude is a multi-genre novel that blends time travel romance, mystery and intrigue, set in different time periods, with enough twists and turns to keep you turning the pages. It's the multi-award winning story of a naive college graduate, whose first job is anything but conventional.

Go on an unforgettable, romantic, Time Travel Adventure

2017 Readers’ Favorite Awards Bronze Medal Winner, Fiction-Tall Tale Category
2018 New Apple Summer eBook Awards, Official Selection

"Beautifully written, this story brings time travel to life!"


Upstate New York, 2012. Emily Stanton, a sociology major, graduates from college and is obligated to work for the mysterious company that funded her education. But a job with Evergreen Research Corporation is not what she expects.

From fancy balls and operas to corsets and kid gloves, Emily learns to be a specialist in 1910 society. In the process, she finds herself fully immersed in the lives of wealthy aristocrats and industry leaders, whose thirst for power leads them to manipulate everything, including time. Thrust into this strange and dangerous world, Emily becomes their most important asset.

Unable to trust her coworkers or her surroundings, however, Emily finds herself alone--with her very survival in the hands of a handsome stranger, Wendell Beringer. Unfortunately, Emily soon discovers that he has a few secrets of his own.

Can she trust this man or the feelings she develops for him?
Only time will tell.

Follow Emily's unexpected journey, where journal entries to her deceased aunt and the powerful secrets they contain, become her only link to the life she once knew and the future she must choose to follow.

Get a copy and go on an adventure you will never forget!

Other Books by Denise Liebig:


The Dear Maude Trilogy Collection
Sophia
Remembering Skye
For the Love of Maude
Forever Maude

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www.deniseliebig.com
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    The Dear Maude Trilogy
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    October 21, 2014
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2017 Readers' Favorite Awards Bronze Medal Winner, Fiction-Tall Tale Category2018 New Apple Summer eBook Awards, Official Selection, 2015 & Older Category
*** "Well, well. Mystery, tension, romance. Very nicely done. A slow build to an appropriate stopping point in the story. I hope the rest of the series is as good."
*** "LOVED IT. What an interesting "twisted" imagination Ms. Liebig has! That is meant in a good way. I'm referring to the twists and turns in the story. There is just the right amount of historical period description to draw the reader into the story and enough intrigue to keep one glued.Looking forward to reading the next book."
*** "The story is an amazing structure of originality that puts some established figures to shame. I found it hard to put down. So clever it's narrative process I was totally unprepared for it...."
*** "Beautifully written, this story brings time travel to life."
*** "Some actual imagination about time travel! I mean, it can't all be lairds and beautiful 21st century females, can it?"
*** "The characters come to life and the descriptions were so vivid I felt as if I had fallen into time with Emily."
*** "Denise Liebig has such a grasp on storytelling that I had to shake my head a few times at how good it was."
*** "A bit slow to start, but not enough to give up. Once the real adventure kicked in, I was hooked! Gobbled up the book like candy."

About the Author

Denise Liebig is the award-winning author of DEAR MAUDE, FOR THE LOVE OF MAUDE, and FOREVER MAUDE, the books of The Dear Maude Trilogy. A true fan of historical fiction, she spends her free time researching historical events and writing about the possibilities. Denise also enjoys spending time in the present with her husband and three kids.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00OSHOI1I
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Amazon Digital Services (October 21, 2014)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 21, 2014
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 645 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 395 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 1,086 ratings

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4.4 out of 5 stars
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This is a trilogy....but very interesting.
I enjoyed reading this book. I had to really imagine the costume and wardrobe of the character's.What I don't like is that it's a trilogy!,
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Connie Clark
5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it!
Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2023
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When I first started reading “Dear Maude”, I wasn’t sure what I was reading. At best, I thought it was something about college life. Boy, was I wrong! This is a splendid book with a lot of twists and turns. It definitely had many well-kept secrets and kept me guessing all the way to the end. The main character, Emily Stanton, is on a scholarship that gives her more than she bargained for. The catch of the scholarship was to work for the granter of the scholarship, Evergreen Research, for four years after graduating from college. Little did Emily realize it would change her whole life.
It’s a story that borders “The Twilight Zone”, with a twist of espionage and toss in a little Agatha Christie for good measure.
The story has a great flow and kept me wanting to find out more about Emily’s bizarre situation and how she was going to handle it. The characters were memorable and believable. I didn’t have a connection to what she was going through, but by the time I finished the book, I was hoping she would win. Her self-esteem I could relate to and she goes through a transition of finding out what she can do even when she didn’t think she could. I highly recommend reading “Dear Maude” and I definitely have plans to read the next book in the series.
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Michael Mulvihill Clinical Hypnotherapist
4.0 out of 5 stars An Excellant Debut Novel from a very promising young authoress
Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2015
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Denise Liebig has written an intelligent, engaging, well written and commendable debut novel "Dear Maude." What she achieves in this novel is a deep understanding of: place, time, character, period, and an ability to maintain a sense of mystery throughout. No small achievement this must be said. The novel oscillates between a narrative form and a diarist form. I found this structurally uneven and this is the prime reason why I awarded this readable and enjoyable novel a four out of five and not a five out of five. But the author should be by no means be disappointed. This author will gain many fans believe me.
Lovers of period drama, romance, mills and boom novels, suspense, mystery, readers that love novels set in affluent environments, young adult readers, people who love a story about a young inexperienced girl falling in love, these readers will fall head over heals with this book, and this is something I can say unequivocally. There is a huge market for the "Dear Maude Trilogy." People will adore this young novelist whose main character Emily Stanton is both intelligent, inexperienced and lacking what colloquially we call the state of being, 'street wise.'
Her main character is a beautiful, humble, young woman, who is both modest and warm of heart.
Readers will find the protagonist of the book endearing, empathic, engaging, and involved. These affects are executed by the author stylistically via the manner in which she writes the book which is both: emotional, warm, and full of awareness of how others that surround the main character are cold and adrift from basic human decency. Thus, other characters act as baselines of comparison to Emily Stantons good heart, for although their bank statements maybe healthy, too many of the people Emily Stanton will encounter will be merely spiritually redundant and mentally impoverished, especially in regard to what it is to be a human being in this life. Because the author writes in the first person she achieves by this format of writing the ability to really grasp the inner world of Emily Stanton. What the reader gets in return is an excellent example of what it is like to be an outsider from the out-group attempting to fit in to the in-group, terms I learnt from my studies of social psychology and sociology.
The descriptions of the hyper affluent, how they dress, how they dine, is magnificent. What it feels like to be an underling, to be a person not from this society is so well done that all we can do is salute Denise Liebig and encourage her to finish this trilogy which she intends to provide us readers with.
The author manages to play on our nerves. We have no idea, as we read through the book, if the novel is a young adult book, a romance, a science fiction, a dystopian novel (for e.g. the contract provided by The Evergreen Research Corporation seems like a barbaric example of where Corporate American is headed in terms of workers rights and human rights) or an example of historical romantic fiction. Well done to Denise! in this present zeitgeist readers love a cross-fertilization of genres. The author keeps us in a sense of mystery, we wonder what exactly is happening to Emily, is she being used, or is she simply being employed to perform a set amount of duties that may or may not be to her personal detriment? These factors help to make this novel splendid and rather appetizing for perspective readers.
Denise Liebig shall find a loyal following as an authoress and many more praise worthy people than I shall sing her praises as an authoress.
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Sheila Kell
5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect start to the series
Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2015
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The story begins with Emily Stanton in college sharing her room with a nasty student who suddenly acts like her best friend when Emily meets a guy. She’d accepted a full scholarship from a mysterious company with the expectation she either pays them back or works for them for four years. Holding to her responsibilities, she works for Evergreen Research Corporation and is chosen for a prestigious assignment. One she must agree to before she knows what it entails.

During the entire time she journals her life, writing the entries to her deceased aunt Maude whom she adored.

This story is chocked full of adventure, mystery, romance and time-travel. The unexpected twists and turn of this intriguing novel had me reading it in one setting. Well worth losing some sleep. The characters come to life and the descriptions were so vivid I felt as if I had fallen into time with Emily.

Denise Liebig crafted a well-written and captivating story to begin her series. Don’t worry, there is not a cliff-hanger. Everything comes together nicely in the final chapter. I highly recommend this novel and am ready for the rest of the series
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The Reading Place
5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting!
Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2019
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This was an interesting read. It's unlike most time-travel, where the heroine plunges immediately into the past and her adventures. The story draws you in, like building a wall, brick by brick. I actually began to wonder if it was a time-travel at all, rather than a mystery, slowly unraveling a bit of information here, a little there. Instead of an organic time-travel, meaning that the heroine falls into the past by amulet or druid stones, etc., the time-travel is done through machine; so there's an element of scific here.
The writing is so well done that even though I initally wondered if it had been mislabeled, I became attached to Emily and her story. My patience was well-rewarded. The heroine actually has to study, and live the part, to fit into the time period where she's slated to go. She is never told, until it's time to pop back into time, that's what she is there for; and then she slowly finds out that she is part of an agenda to change the future. At any point, if she fails at what she's supposed to do, her employer will discard her. She's an asset, nothing more.
Well, well. Mystery, tension, romance. Very nicely done. A slow build to an appropriate stopping point in the story. I hope the rest of the series is as good.
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Dean braun
3.0 out of 5 stars The strange book with no ending
Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2023
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I have read many books but no other that was so odd. It held my interest long enough to finish it , but left me very un satisfied .
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Wilma Thomas
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Fun
Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2023
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What an enjoyable experience moving through time. I totally recommend this book. So riveting and fun. Can't wait to read the next one.
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dockers
5.0 out of 5 stars Wasn't sure to start with
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 9, 2024
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Enjoyed it more than I thought I was going to, so give it a chance as it is really not as it first appears
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Cliente de Amazon
5.0 out of 5 stars Great story.
Reviewed in Mexico on May 3, 2021
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Loved the book, so interesting story that keeps you reading on. Would describe as time travel, science and love. Will read #2 immediately.
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Jann LaValley
5.0 out of 5 stars An Exciting Rollercoaster Ride of Ups and Downs
Reviewed in Canada on January 11, 2019
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What great luck to have this book on my iPhone with me during an overnight hospital stay! Thank you to the author and Amazon for making it available to me to download. I can't write too many details without giving away the story but this is one of the best time-travel books I have ever read on all levels. The writing was crisp and the gossipy monologue/dialogue of the main character was appropriate to her age and original time period. I liked her and wanted to see her succeed in the challenges which faced her so much so that today I have bought the second and third books in the trilogy. I can't wait to see what comes next!
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Sharyn
5.0 out of 5 stars A Journey above expectation
Reviewed in Australia on September 4, 2015
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From the moment I started this book, I was compelled to keep reading. There was an element of suspense underlying the words, that something was about to happen, but I didn’t know what.

The mystery starts to unfold for the heroine, Emily, an intelligent young woman with a college scholarship, which leads her to a journey that is far beyond her expectations and taking the reader by surprise. Mystery twists and turns, romance, history and sci fi, all part of a plot that satisfies to the end, but still leaving room to continue the trilogy.

Detailed and descriptive writing, great storyline, and surprising outcomes, make this book a very enjoyable read.
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Ragnar
4.0 out of 5 stars Dear Maude
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 22, 2015
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SPOILER ALERT

It is difficult to review this book without mentioning a major element of the plot, so I am going to refer to it here. It is implied in the blurb.

`Emily ventures into an unknown future accompanied only by the journal she addresses to her deceased aunt, Maude, and the will to survive a four-year commitment she hopes will return her to the world she once knew.'

In addition to this hint, several reviews on Amazon mention the time travel angle, so a prospective reader checking reviews before buying will be aware of it before they hit page one.

The lead protagonist of this book is Emily Stanton, a well-educated and intelligent girl who has secured funding for her college course from The Evergreen Research Corporation on the understanding that she will work for them for four years after completing it. The book is a first person narrative. Since Emily is educated and articulate, she writes well and includes short extracts from her diary in each chapter. She calls her diary `Maude' and begins each entry with the words `Dear Maude', hence the book's title.

`Dear Maude [My diary was named after my grandmother's aunt who was a flapper during the 1920s. Until she passed away, I could tell her all of my secrets and she never judged me. I adored her, and continued to tell her my secrets even after she was gone--in my journal.]'

The diary extracts always come at or near the end of the chapter and deal with the same events, which entails a degree of repetition. This did not trouble me, but readers for whom time is money may not like it.

There are clear advantages in first person narration in this book because Emily has an engaging way with words. Not only does she give her side of conversations, she also voices what she is really thinking in italics. As it turns out she is an excellent analyst of the strange events in which she is innocently involved and writes with considerable wit. And unlike some characters in the book, she treats those employed to look after her with sympathy and understanding. An endearing trait, I think.

But what exactly is she dealing with in The Evergreen Research Corporation, and how is time travel involved?

"Their agenda? Well, Evergreen Research was created for one reason--to allow wealthy individuals the ability to alter past events to gain them further wealth and power."

And here we encounter a problem commonly met with in tales involving time travel. The accepted wisdom is that altering events in the past will have consequences which cannot be foreseen. It is a dangerous thing to do. For example, someone may venture into the past, cause an accident and, as a result, may not come into existence any longer in the future. In which case they could not have gone back into the past in the first place. And so on . . .

The author is well aware of this problem, which comes out in the course of her romantic involvement with Dell. This attractive man, much given to going riding of a morning, represents another organisation working to forestall the machinations of the Evergreen Corporation. Dell explains to Emily that both of them are what he refers to as `wild cards'.

"A wild card--a historical figure that obviously existed in the past, but managed to remain anonymous. I appear to be one as well in Evergreen's eyes at least. This means that we can come and go, possibly influencing but not directly changing any events.'

The sleight of hand is obvious here. The fact that someone is anonymous does not mean they have no effect. A murderer may be anonymous. And if `influence' does not lead to change in the situation Emily is in, it would be pointless. (I would argue that influence must result in change, however small that change might be.)

The author is well aware of this problem and returns to it on two later occasions. But no story involving time travel can escape this dilemma and the best approach for readers is to accept the premise and go with it. In this case, they won't regret it. The book is complex, the dialogue excellent, and the characters well drawn and credible. The author is also excellent when it comes to describing surroundings and clothing, including a period in the past when corsets were commonly worn. In the light of Emily's discomfort in wearing these contraptions I am not surprised they went out of fashion.
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