Give My Regards To Mister Eastman - H.J. Ashworth

I recognized Hutch as a man of science and logic, open to new ideas and scientific theory. At the same time, he seemed a trusting soul. As I studied him, something came over me and before I could stop myself, I blurted out what I was thinking.
“Would you believe me if I told you I’m a time traveler?” As soon as I’d spoken, I feared I’d made a huge mistake… but it was too late to take it back.
“Oh really?” Hutch said, laughing. “And I’m the man in the moon.”

After twenty years of traveling the world with the military, Air Force veteran Tom Ashton and devoted wife Kathy decide it's time to lay down roots. Choosing the Finger Lakes region of Western New York to live out their retirement years, they purchase a home in the quaint town of Victor located just twenty miles south of Rochester, where the home of Eastman Kodak founder George Eastman is located. But shortly after settling into the area, Tom suffers a fatal heart attack, leaving sixty-year-old Kathy to face the future alone. Two years on, newly widowed Kathy is just beginning to cope with the loss of her beloved husband of forty years. Today she is meeting her friends at the Eastman House Museum in Rochester to tour an exhibit on "Occultism in Victorian New York", but first she must make a stop at the local cemetery where once a month Kathy visits her husband Tom to share her deepest thoughts and feelings and unburden her heart in preparation for the lonely weeks ahead. While there, a chance encounter with a stranger and the discovery of a mysterious medallion triggers a series of events that will change her life in ways she never imagined.

Centered on the life of American entrepreneur and inventor George Eastman and the people closest to him, Give My Regards to Mister Eastman tells a story of sixty-year-old Katherine Ashton, who finds herself mysteriously transported back in time to 1905 and the newly built home of Mister George Eastman. As Kathy tries to unravel how she ended up in the past and how she is going to get back to her own time, she becomes embroiled in a blackmail plot that could change the course of history forever.

Author: H.J. Ashworth