News, Press & Reviews

Award-Winning Author Brings 1893 World’s Fair to Life
Carol Cox Spins Tale of Romance and Intrigue Amid Historical Event

Uhrichsville, OH—When the World’s Columbian Exposition descended on the city of Chicago in 1893, more than 27 million people flooded the entrance gates to experience this fantastic event. The fair saw the introduction of thousands of products, from Aunt Jemima syrup to Juicy Fruit gum, as well as the invention of the Ferris Wheel and the concept of the midway, which influenced the idea of the carnival and future amusement parks. The fair touched many parts of American life, impacting it for generations to come.

Now award-winning author Carol Cox takes readers inside the sights, smells, and sounds of the fair in Ticket to Tomorrow (Barbour Publishing, April 2006). This first title in the three-book A Fair to Remember series is a story of mystery, romance, and a young woman’s determination to see her late husband’s dream come true.

Annie Trenton and her husband, Will, had dreamed of this moment for months—introducing the Crockett-Trenton Horseless Carriage at the great world’s fair in Chicago. Will and his partner, Silas Crockett, had spent months on the invention, with Annie diligently working alongside. But young Will had been killed in a streetcar accident a year earlier, and now it was only Annie and the brilliant but absent-minded Silas introducing the concept to the millions of fairgoers—and searching for investors.

When the pair arrives at the fair, Silas accidentally collides with another man, causing the men’s satchels to get switched. After discovering the error and searching for some way to return the bag, Annie deciphers a coded message that leads her to the owner. Little does she know her detective work has put her in the middle of an international political conspiracy.

As Silas touts the benefits of the horseless carriage to curious onlookers, including the likes of Thomas Edison and the Infanta of Spain, Annie spends her days assisting at the exhibit and exploring the fair’s many facets alongside handsome Nick Rutherford, Silas’s nephew, who works as a rodeo rider in the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show. . . and who is inching his way into her heart.

But as Annie wrestles with Will’s death and her true feelings for Nick, she becomes a victim of a series of strange events. First, her room and Silas’s are ransacked and her reticule is stolen; then she’s followed multiple times by an unknown man—and, ultimately, she’s kidnapped and locked away.

Carol Cox, award-winning author of seven novels and eleven novellas, is a native of Arizona, a pastor’s wife, mom to her grown son, and a homeschool teacher to her young daughter. Through her writing, she hopes to encourage Christian readers and pique the interest of non-Christians. Visit her website at www.CarolCoxBooks.com.

Releasing April 2006…Ticket to Tomorrow, Carol Cox, Barbour Publishing, 5 ³/16" x 8"Softcover, 320 pages, $9.97 value price, ISBN 1-59310-948-2

Related Authors

• Carol Cox

Related Books

• Ticket To Tomorrow (Trade Paper)