I love “Groundhog Day” style time loop romances and it finally occured to me I should write my own! I had to do more advance plotting than I usually do in order to have enough elements for the time loop to repeat and be interesting as the female main character begins to unravel the day she’s living through over and over and works to change the outcome.

And who can resist the idea of an alien “turtle” pet who can leave his shell?

The excerpt – oh, did I mention there’s a big budget futuristic ‘mo...