The Bridge to Rembrandt

An epic historical saga of time travel and distorted romance, transporting the reader to some of Amsterdam’s most memorable periods of history; wartime, riots, famine, and the plague.

Robert has his own personal medical challenge, diabetes. As you might expect his condition does not exactly sit well with several episodes of accidental time-travel sessions leaping into the past of historical Netherlands.
Each time Robert travels in time, his fate is bound up with the same woman (or is it?), and with the work of The Netherlands’ most famous painter, Rembrandt van Rijn.
Take a walk through Amsterdam’s mysterious and dark history and discover how someone from the 21st century has to adjust and cope with challenges that were second nature to people in those days.

Robert is caught in a race against time. Will he make it back to his normal life? Or will he be trapped in the past with his unique discovery as his insulin runs out, and he faces a violent and angry husband?

Editorial Reviews.

An entertaining yarn about time travel, infidelity, and art, executed with sure brush strokes.
Kirkus Reviews

The story gathers momentum towards the second half, propelling readers into Robert and Saskia’s precarious adventures through time. Foley spices it all with little-known social, historical, and architectural tidbits about Amsterdam, a piquant introduction to the city for the uninitiated. Rembrandt is not as central to the narrative as the title suggests, but he plays a significant role in the climax. Lovers of romance, art, and European history will find much to enjoy here.
Publishers Weekly - Booklife

This works better than some time travel novels. The hero does face some adversity, and he changes due to his experience. Satisfactorily, he also gets his hands on a historic treasure. It’s well written and well edited, and though we never fully understand how the time travel mechanism works, it works.
Reedsy Discovery (Susie Helme)

Author Nelson K. Foley has produced a debut novel that is full of intriguing synchronicities and conundrums. The two lead characters Robert and Saskia are easy to both like and dislike. I particularly enjoyed each of the periods Robert found himself in. It was clear the author had done his research well and had an intimate grasp of the locale, the environment, and people’s attitudes in the periods he visited. The final meeting with the real Saskia, during the plague period, raised some questions, but overall, the puzzles and paradoxes of time travel were well handled. The overarching idea of meeting and conversing with the great master himself, Rembrandt, especially when he was a broken and destitute man, was inspirational and certainly added significantly to the enjoyment of the story. The author does grab readers’ attention and drags you along in a dizzying journey back through Amsterdam’s history. This is a good read and one that requires little effort. I could envisage people reading this story in one sitting, and I can recommend The Bridge to Rembrandt to anyone who fancies a tad of escapism.
Readers Favourite (K.C. Flinn)

Time travel has been done many times and in many ways, but The Bridge to Rembrandt has a unique quality offering a plot, a romance, adventure, historical facts, and more. Nelson K. Foley has a unique style that brings Robert and Saskia and their travels back in time to life, making them seem like authentic people that would be interesting to meet. I am anxiously looking forward to reading more of his work. The Bridge to Rembrandt can be enjoyed by women and men, young and old. I believe that it would make a terrific movie as well as becoming a very successful book. I highly recommend that you put The Bridge to Rembrandt on the top of your reading list: you will not be disappointed.
Readers Favourite (Trudi LoPreto)