Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt Stop #15

Welcome to the Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt! If you've just discovered the hunt, be sure to start at stop #1, and collect the clues through all the stops, in order, so you can enter to win one of our top 3 grand prizes!

• The hunt BEGINS on 10/23/25 at (12:00 PM mountian / 1:00 PM Central) at with Lisa T. Bergren HERE. Hunt through our loop using Chrome or Firefox as your browser (not Explorer).
• There is NO RUSH to complete the hunt - you have all weekend (until Sunday, 10/16/25 at midnight mountian / 1 AM central)! So take your time, reading the uinque posts along the way; our hope is that you discover new authors / new books and learn new things about them.
• Submit your entry for the grand prizes by collecting the CLUE on each author's scavenger hunt post and submitting your answer in the form at the final stop, back on Lisa's site. Many authors are offering additional prizes along the way! (Like me! Be sure to read all the way to the end for your free gift!)

 

Hi y'all! I'm Stephenia H. McGee and I write stories of faith and love, steeped in the South. You'll find historical, time travel, and contemporary novels here, all with a thread of faith, friendship, and down-home goodness. You can learn more about me and my books by clicking around on the header on this site and check out my full reading list! 

One of my favorite things about being a historical author is the reasearch, and I got to thinking...what would it be like to actally visit those historical eras? Pair that idea with a mysterious B&B, a quirky Southern hostess, and a good dose of humor, and the Back Inn Time Series was born! In this series, new characters visit the B&B and are transported to different eras throughout history...where they find love in the most unexpected places.

Here's a little about my newest addition:

He never asked for a blind date—especially not one from 1864.

If Connor Payne had known his grandfather was up to a matchmaking scheme on their weekend trip to a quirky B&B, he would have stayed home on the farm. But it turns out his accommodations come not with a blind date, but a trip to 1864—with a war on the doorstep and no idea how to get home. Rescuing a stubborn beauty and her grandfather from the burning of Atlanta was not on his weekend agenda. Now getting her to safety might mean dragging her through time… and into a future neither of them understands.

Oh boy. I think it would be awesome to visit the 1800s, and I'm sure it would be really crazy to come from 1864 to 2025, don't you? During my research about the Victorian era, here's a few things I think I'd love...and a few I'd probably hate.

5 Things I’d Love (or Hate!) About Living in Victorian Times

1. Love: The fashion. Big beautiful skirts for twirling, tailored coats, and hats for every occasion. Who wouldn’t want to feel like they’d stepped out of a period drama? Fun! Not so fun…corsets. Totally practical with the heavy skirts (I found that out the hard way), but I still think I’d take a cozy pair of sweatpants for evening relaxing. Something Amanda in A Victoria Visitor finds rather interesting!

What she didn’t find great…swimsuits.

2. Love: The houses. Ornate woodwork, stained glass windows, wraparound porches—Victorian architecture is basically “Pinterest-perfect.” One of my favorite places to visit is Natchez, MS. The architecture of the 1800s is simply stunning. But what I’d hate…the lack of indoor plumbing.

3. Love: The inventions. The Victorians were bursting with new gadgets—bicycles, phonographs, and all kinds of interesting convivences like the punkah (a giant fan over your dining room table to shoo the flies coming in from open widows). Not to mention that things back then were made to last, and even the simplest designs were often artistic.

4. Hate: The medical practices. If leeches and cocaine prescriptions for hay fever don’t make you queasy, you’re braver than I am.

5. Love: The beauty of candlelight and gas lamps. Everything looks dreamy by a soft golden glow. Hate: Fire hazards. One swoosh of a hoop skirt too close to the hearth and it’s less “romantic glow,” more “stop, drop, and roll.”

Interested? Learn more about A Victorian Visitor!

Here's the basics:

 

You can find a copy at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or your favorite bookstore. Or, order directly from the author here on my bookshop (you can still read the eBooks on your favorite device like a kindle, or listen to the audiobooks with the free app) for cheaper than retail. Or check out the deeply discounted series starter deal here.

Clue to write down: new

Your next stop on the loop: Stop #16 with Erica Vetsch!

 

Before you go...

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