Published: June 27, 2012
Words: 80,828 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9780985683313

Short description

When Paula Martin, an advertising executive in 2007 San Diego California, buys a box of old photographs, she discovers a picture of a young woman who looks exactly like her. The girl is a daughter of a miner from 1907 Oro Belle, Arizona. Through a twist of fate, the girls exchange places in time. Now they must live each others lives until they can figure a way back to their own time.

Extended description

When advertising executive, Paula Martin, buys a box of old photographs, she discovers a picture of a young woman who looks exactly like her. Also in the box are photos of an old mining camp. The photos are dated 1907, exactly one hundred years earlier. Feeling a strange kinship to Catherine Hollingsworth, the girl in the photo, Paula sets out to find the gold mining town of Oro Belle, Arizona and walk the same streets that Catherine walked.

While Paula is traveling the deserted mountain road to Oro Belle, Catherine is traveling the same road 100 years earlier. They are caught in a thunder storm and in a flash of lightening exchange places in time. Paula is sent back a hundred years to a thriving mining camp while Catherine is hurled forward into 2007 San Diego.

Paula, who everyone thinks is Catherine, is faced with Catherine's father's debts and his cranky elderly sister. She meets Sam Loudin, whose mother was Yavapai Indian, and his young son, Davy. Also there is Jeremiah Curtis.. (Read more) When advertising executive, Paula Martin, buys a box of old photographs, she discovers a picture of a young woman who looks exactly like her. Also in the box are photos of an old mining camp. The photos are dated 1907, exactly one hundred years earlier. Feeling a strange kinship to Catherine Hollingsworth, the girl in the photo, Paula sets out to find the gold mining town of Oro Belle, Arizona and walk the same streets that Catherine walked.

While Paula is traveling the deserted mountain road to Oro Belle, Catherine is traveling the same road 100 years earlier. They are caught in a thunder storm and in a flash of lightening exchange places in time. Paula is sent back a hundred years to a thriving mining camp while Catherine is hurled forward into 2007 San Diego.

Paula, who everyone thinks is Catherine, is faced with Catherine's father's debts and his cranky elderly sister. She meets Sam Loudin, whose mother was Yavapai Indian, and his young son, Davy. Also there is Jeremiah Curtis, a handsome mining engineer. To make ends meet, Paula goes to work in the local saloon and befriends the owner, Celeste.

Meanwhile, Catherine, who everyone thinks is Paula, is expected to run the office, write commercials and jingles. Unable to cope as well as Paula, she struggles. To complicate things, Brian, Paula's fiance, doesn't understand what is wrong with her and has her see a psychologist.

The women keep trying to find a way back to their own time, while learning to accept that they may never get back and may not want to.
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Tags

romance, adventure, time travel, western fiction, arizona gold mines

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Review by: Lynette M. Smith on June 30, 2012 :
Jan Toom's Dead Ringer is an engaging time-travel (well, time-exchange) tale that connects--100 years apart--two young women who have been thrust into each other's worlds: Oro Belle, a 1907 Arizona mining town, and modern-day San Diego, California at an ad agency. How century-apart look-alikes Catherine and Paula each manage to cope with their unexpected circumstances is a tribute to female ingenuity and a great read!

--Lynette M. Smith, Author, "How to Write Heartfelt Letters to Treasure: For Special Occasions and Occasions Made Special"
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