Edgecroft: The Mystery Begins (The Woodshed #1)

When Annie and Michael Carter buy the Carter family's ancestral mansion, Edgecroft, in rural Virginia, they expect their lives to go on pretty much as before, with Michael commuting into the city to his job as a international banking consultant and Annie staying home to work on her writing and to begin the massive renovation projects the two hundred year old mansion will need. 

But on her first day alone in her new home, Annie discovers a lost journal in a box of family papers and bizarrely is transported back to a very different era, to the 1690s, and the time of John and Lucy Carter, the first of the family name to own the property.Is it a dream? Is it a vision? Is it time travel? Annie doesn't know, but what she does know is she is shown a glimpse of a world that she could scarcely an old-fashioned place where husbands take a firm stand with sassy young wives in the most traditional terms." The Mystery Begins (The Woodshed Book One) is the novella length introduction to Annie's journey through the papers of the Carter family and through her own journey with her husband. " The Mystery Begins" contains sexual and domestic discipline elements. It was originally released in 2015 as "The Ghosts of Edgecroft" by Anne Randolph.