Out of Time

A Novel

Plot

It seemed like an accident at first. Escaping a downpour, Susan Van Dine steps into an antiques shop on Manhattan's West Side and discovers a scrapbook of women's photographs from the 1920s. She doesn't really mean to steal the scrapbook--but as one incident leads to the next, Susan finds herself drawn into a web of strange occurrences that are hard to explain, especially to her skeptical girlfriend Catherine.

Is Susan being haunted by the women in the scrapbook who call themselves 'The Gang?' By Harriet Timberlake, the budding actress, or Lucy Weir, Harriet's devoted lover and the author of many novels? By Sarah Stern, labor writer and organizer, or the aristocratic Elinor Devere?

Set in the antiques world of New York, with a memorable case of characters, real and ghostly, Out of Time is a delightful and thoughtful novel about history, love, and the persistence of passion.