{"id":1741,"date":"2025-09-10T07:30:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T07:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/?page_id=1741"},"modified":"2026-05-22T02:10:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T02:10:36","slug":"maybe-some-other-time","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/books\/standalones\/maybe-some-other-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe Some Other Time"},"content":{"rendered":"
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She drove out of the past\u2026 and straight into her future.<\/em><\/strong>

Thelma Van der Graaf was the perfect 1950s housewife\u2014charming, stylish, and unquestionably devoted to her family. On Hemlock Street, she was known for her tasteful jokes, immaculate garden, and the kind of chaste flirtation that never garnered attention. Even her secret lover, Sandy, understood the rules: love had to be hidden, tucked away behind lace curtains and closed doors.

But one foggy night, racing to the market while her son lay sick on the couch, Thelma vanished into a heavy fog\u2026

And reappeared in 2018.

There\u2019s no way back\u2026 only forward.<\/em><\/strong>

Her husband and Sandy are gone. Her now-elderly son, bitter and confused, believes she abandoned him. Struggling to make sense of the internet, new Christian dogma, and seatbelt laws, Thelma finds unlikely allies in a college-aged granddaughter and a support group for other accidental time travelers.

And then there\u2019s Gretchen, a neighbor whose down-to-earth views and affable personality instantly catches Thelma\u2019s heart.

As Thelma adjusts to the twenty-first century, she rediscovers who she truly is beneath the golden curls and red lipstick. For the first time in her life, she doesn\u2019t have to hide. In this bold new world, she has the chance to reclaim her voice, pursue new love, and finally become the woman Sandy would have been proud of.

All while enjoying the same Californian sun she has known for decades.

MAYBE SOME OTHER TIME\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>is a time-travel story that is equal parts women\u2019s fiction and romance. It is low-spice and has a HEA\u2014albeit an unconventional one.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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She drove out of the past\u2026 and straight into her future. Thelma Van der Graaf was the perfect 1950s housewife\u2014charming, stylish, and unquestionably devoted to her family. On Hemlock Street, she was known for her tasteful jokes, immaculate garden, and the kind of chaste flirtation that never garnered attention. Even her secret lover, Sandy, understood… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1908,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1741","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PaRtqI-s5","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1743,"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1741\/revisions\/1743"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}