Carolyn Douglas began writing as a newspaper editor during World War II. For many years she managed the word processing department of a major San Francisco brokerage firm. She was a part-time resident of Pine Grove, California for fifteen years, which allows her intimate knowledge of the area and her ability to imagine its heyday during the California Gold Rush. She now lives in Scottsdale, Arizona.
 

Books

Play It Again Samantha

When she realized that her life in the Twentieth Century is as dull as a quilting bee, Samantha Malcom's inner voice shouts that it is time for a change. She climbs aboard her son's mountain bike and heads to an indefinite future.
 

Hours later, exhausted and lost, she falls asleep on the doorstep of an abandoned building. She awakens the next morning to the bustling activity of a town in the midst of the California Gold Rush of 1852. Oddly dressed in jeans and down vest, with a wallet full of useless cash and credit cards, her immediate concern turns to survival.
 

he rich tale that follows is one of awakening and discovery, of wishes renewed and dreams fulfilled. Samantha uses her musical talent to make a place for herself in her new world, and faces a unique duel of flying fingers. She takes into her heart two young and needy children, and gently introduces the concepts of self worth and value to a group of trapped young women. She develops the relationships that she knew were missing from her old life, including a love that banishes her emptiness forever.
Along the way, Samantha faces challenges and successes, heroes and villains, murder and deception. The rich history of the Gold Rush is brought alive, as she gently nudges the course of time. Yet she is always mindful of her privileged position as a time traveler, and the story crescendos to the point where Samantha must make up her mind which world is her heart's home.