If you could travel back in time, what would you change?
British dancer, Leigh Boswell, plans to leave her abusive husband, Daniel, on a vacation to Gettysburg, USA. On a trip to the battlefield, a Shawnee child summons a storm that catapults Leigh back in time to the aftermath of one of America's bloodiest battles on 3rd July 1863. Sick and disoriented, she's helped by a young Confederate soldier, Lewis Thornton Powell. Leigh is taken under the wing of Confederate sympathiser, Maggie Branson, where she endures the horrors of Civil War nursing. Struggling to adapt in an alien world, fate takes Leigh deep into the Virginian countryside where she's adopted by Daniel's ancestors; the Chandlers...and meets once more with the enigmatic Powell, with whom she seems unable to escape a mutual destiny. Tormented by her knowledge of the future, Leigh travels to Washington DC in a desperate bid to stop the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. But as her nightmare unfolds, she finally uncovers the terrible truth about the man she loves.
The Open Doorway is a novel of struggle in adversity, timeless love, and karmic absolution. It pits the past against the future where, for everything given in life, a price must be paid; and for everything taken, something wonderful is offered in return