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< After the Storm (Harper Monogram) > < Wings of the Storm > < A Kind of Magic > < In My Dreams > < My Own True Love (Harper Monogram) > < One of These Nights > Susan Sizemore

price：~~$10.00~~
Harpercollins (Mm)

customer 's review
(Brilliant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

(A Fabulous Medieval Time Travel Romance Mystery)

(A Great time travel romance)

(The next book is better,but this is great)

Libby Wolfe&the time search team are sent back to medievel England. They are trying to recover their memories after an explosion 6 months previously in which she has lost 4 years of her life. Libby is studying outlaws&is drawn to Bastian of Bale. She is playing the part of Isabeau of Lilydrake, a noblewoman. There is something about Bastien that is very intruiging. He suffers the same memory loss as Libby does. All he knows is that he&his wife were at Lilydrake at the time of the explosion...
A fantastic story with the daughter of David&Jane from "Storm"&I was completely surprised to find out who Reynard was. I never even thought he was anything other than he was portrayed. A brilliant ending.
This is the sequel to Wings of the Storm, and it is even better than the original. It is a medieval time travel romance mystery--what happened to the time research team to lose their memories and years of their lives--set in the Middle Ages. The tale unfolds in a way reminiscent of Rebecca (DuMaurier), a little information revealed at a time in flashbacks. It has great humor as well sa a fast paced storyline, bringing back some characters from the first novel and answering some leftover questions about what happened to those characters. The romance is very well done, as is the ending. Be careful about reading too much in other reviews as it will spoil the plot.
After having read the synopsis of the story on the back of the book, I was surprised at how much I enjoyed this novel.

Libby was part of a 5 person team that had traveled back into the past (from our future) to further the studies of time travel. In what was supposed to be an empty castle, the team conducted their research on a top-secret new type of time travel. When a violent reaction occurs, Libby has lost 4 years of her life, her memory and 2 members of the team. Having more of a desire to study life on the Mongolian plains, she is confused over her desire to return to of all places the Middle Ages of England. Thus, using the "front" of rebuilding the time portal that almost caused their demise, Libby and the remaining two scientists return to try and recover their lost memories and rebuild the destroyed time portal.
Libby also decides to pursue her recent interest in studying outlaws. Enter Bastin of Bale-the epitome of our romantic hero and an outlaw; the perfect specimen for Libby to study. Libby is immediately drawn to him as he holds her hostage to free his men from a dungeon, and then later comes to pose as a worker rebuilding the castle where the original accident takes place.
When a Lord shows up claiming that Libby is his bride, she decides that she should return to the future and ends up as Bastins' willing captive instead. With fragments of memories starting to return and Libby realizes that Bastin was at the castle at the time of the explosion (and lost his wife as well as suffers from the same violent headaches from loosing his memory) the two undergo a quest to regain the past that they have lost.
With an irate jilted would-be-husband, the shire's sheriff, and outlaws under a different leader hot on their trail Bastin and Libby kindle a love that, well you'll just have to read the book.

Okay, so the book is a lot better with more details that are hard to write into a review with out giving away all the fabulous surprises that keep you hooked until the last page.
So Libby has taken on her mother's hobby and job? huh? Well,good for her. I like the scenes with Sebastian!
Swept back to medieval England, Time Search team member Libby Wolfe is unable to keep her promise to remain uninvolved when she falls in love with the handsome outlaw Bastien of Bale.
Rerations
< After the Storm (Harper Monogram) > < Wings of the Storm > < A Kind of Magic > < In My Dreams > < My Own True Love (Harper Monogram) > freaks

< Enchanted Time (Timeswept) > < Thirty Nights with a Highland Husband (The Daughters of the Glen, Book 1) > < Sixpence Bride (Timeswept) > < Touched By Time (Zebra Regency Romance) > < Timeless Passion > < Circles in Time (Timeswept) > Amy Elizabeth Saunders

price：~~$1.05~~
Love Spell

customer 's review
(Not my ussual genre)

(The only romance novel I've ever kept)

(If not the best, then among the best time travel books around)

(Excellent)

(reprint of an enchanting mid 90s time travel romance)

Romance novels are not my ussual reading choice but I met the author at a writers workshop and I wanted to read one of her books. I thought it was great! I think she is a very gifted writer and will read more of her books.
I usually pass on my romance novels... not this one. It's dog eared, well read many times over, and the spine cracked beyond recognition. I pop on here every few months hoping to find that she has started writing again. This book is just so good!!

When I know I am getting to the part about the rabbits, I make sure there are tissues close at hand... because I laugh so hard, I cry.

I do hope she starts to write again. What a wonderful story. I hated for it to end.
I read this one several months ago, and I dearly regret not reviewing it right after I read it. But, I can tell you, it
stuck with me, because of the plot, the charaters, the detail.
It was just awesome. It felt like it went up&beyond what is
required of a time travel, or even of just a great read! That's
how taken with it I was.

On the 1-10 scale, I would be a good solid 12.
On the star scale, 7 stars. This book was that outstanding.

If you're moving to a desert island or running from a burning house, be sure to grab this one on the way out. It's just totally awesome. It's too bad Amy Elizabeth doesn't appear to
be writing anymore. I haven't read much of her work (yet), but
what I have read is outstanding.
This book was excellent. It kept me wanting to read "just one more chapter" all night long!
In Seattle, Ivy Raymond owns and operates an antique store, ENCHANTED TIME. She normally sees sellers by appointment or in bulk lots, but to rid herself of the pesky elderly woman, she agrees to look at the package. Inside is a book from the sixteenth century that obviously is worth a lot, but the woman insists on $100 or she will sell it to the nearby bookstore owner. A stunned Ivy feels some sort of weird inexplicable connection to the names inside the tome and buys the book.

Ivy reads some of the incantations only to find the spells work though she remains skeptical. However, the last spell she cites sends her back to the drafty abode of a seventeenth century gentleman, Julian Ramsden. As they fall in love, he wonders if she is a spy working for his enemy trying to stop Julian from regaining all he lost. Then there is the Witch Hunter General who will hang female family members of Julian including his beloved Ivy if he is not stopped in time.

This is a reprint of an enchanting mid 90s time travel romance that is one of the sub-genre's best. The story line is exciting due to a tremendous cast who will make moving back and forth in the time stream seem possible. Ivy is a wonderful heroine and her beloved is a delightful hunk struggling between love and desire vs. trust. The secondary characters provide depth to the mid-seventh century especially the Witch Hunter General. Readers will have an ENCHANTED TIME perusing Amy Elizabeth Saunders' appealing tale.

Harriet Klausner
Restricting her interests to great works of literature, antiques store owner Ivy Raymond purchases a mysterious book of spells and is transported back in time, where she meets dishonored knight Julian Ramsden.
Rerations
< Enchanted Time (Timeswept) > < Thirty Nights with a Highland Husband (The Daughters of the Glen, Book 1) > < Sixpence Bride (Timeswept) > < Touched By Time (Zebra Regency Romance) > < Timeless Passion > freaks

< Distant Dreams (Time Passages) > < Echoes of Tomorrow (Time Passages Romance) > < River of Dreams (Time Passages Romance Series) > < Waiting for Yesterday > < Lost Yesterday (Time Passages Romance) > < Everything in Its Time (Time Passages) > Jenny Lykins

price：~~$10.00~~
Jove

customer 's review
(Wow . . .)

(5 star time travel - excellent story)

(Phenonenal)

(Great!!!!)

(Very Good Read For Time Travel Fans)

. . . this was one of those books that I couldn't put down! It's been awhile since I read a story in less than 24 hours because I HAD TO SEE HOW IT ENDED ASAP! Kudos to author, Jenny Lykins, I can't wait to read more of her books!
I picked up this romance figuring it would be a quick read - it turned out to be an excellent one. This book grabbed my interest right away. The way this story was crafted, it was easy to imagine that a ring could wisk you off into the past. Once able to suspend belief, I was able to enjoy the very well created characters and well written story. You can picture the estate by the sea and our heroine falling in love.

Shaelyn has agreed to take part in a living history re-enactment on board a historic ship. She is to be the bride in the re-enactment to be married on board the ship deck. Meanwhile, back in time Alec is prepared to marry a woman who has traveled across a vast ocean to marry his younger brother in an arranged marriage. Alec wants to set his younger brother free to wed the woman he really loves by marrying the stranger. Fast forward back into the present - Shaelyn is a journalist, now dressed in a beautiful old-fashioned gown, drops her pad, pen, and tape recorder on the floor of the cabin and in searching for them, she finds a ring wedged into the floor boards. She resolves to slip it on so she will remember to return it to the ship captain. When she slips the ring onto her finger, the ship lurches about and all the lights go out. Unaware that she has been transported back in time, Shaelyn goes up on deck and Alec, believing she is his brother's betrothed, steps up onto the deck and marries her.

Thus begins a well created time travel romance. It's easy to suspend belief in this one. You grow to care about the characters. To say more would give too much away. It was a very enjoyable tale and earns 5 stars all the way.

This book was well written. It is one of the best books that I have ever read. I have read many time travel romances....but this one takes the cake!! (in a manner of speaking). Shaelyn was a marvelous and vivacious character. Alec is probably the man that I am destined to marry. That is if I can take him away from Shae. If you enjoy this book, check out the sequel "River of Dreams". If this book wasn't rated on a 1 to 5 scale, I would have given it a 10+!!
This book was VERY interesting. I was intrigued throughout the whole story. I loved the way Lykins kept me on my toes with action, all the while not boring me to death with too many descriptions of facial emotions like some writers do. I especially liked how she revealed little facts throughout the whole story and not all at the same time, tying it up in the end very smoothly. I don't know how many times I've read this book. It's great!!!!
When they marry within minutes of meeting each other and he learns she isn't his brother's betrothed and she learns he's not the actor in a historical reenactment of an 1830's wedding, read on to find out if he will anul the marriage and marry his now widowed, old flame as his tyrannical father wants or keep her. The story was entertaining and I really liked the characters.
Maine, 1999: Shaelyn Summer was helping to reenact an 1830's wedding on an antique ship, but when she put on an old diamond ring she found herself in Maine, 1830! Now she is the very real wife of a man from the distant past. Could the ring that brought them together keep her untied for all time with the man she loves?.
Rerations
< Distant Dreams (Time Passages) > < Echoes of Tomorrow (Time Passages Romance) > < River of Dreams (Time Passages Romance Series) > < Waiting for Yesterday > < Lost Yesterday (Time Passages Romance) > freaks

< The Last Highlander (Time Passages Romance Series , No 13) > < My Lady in Time (Time Passages Romance) > < Echoes of Tomorrow (Time Passages Romance) > < Lost Yesterday (Time Passages Romance) > < Nick of Time (Time Passages Romance) > < Waiting for Yesterday > Claire Cross

price：~~$19.95~~
Jove

customer 's review
(Not Bad)

(Wonderful book!)

(Great Read)

(Slow to start but a beautiful ending)

(A Good Attempt, but does not quite work.)

If you're willing to overlook a few flaws, this book makes for an entertaining read. It's unique in that it has someone from the past come to the future, instead of the other way around.

Just keep in mind that you shouldn't look too closely at things. Like how easily the main character comes to the conclusion and accepts that the mysterious Scotsman is from several hundred years in the past. And how easily they're able to understand each other, despite the fact that people talked much differently in the 1200s. (Look at how difficult to understand the King James Bible is, or Shakespeare's plays, because of the shift in language, and that's only 400 years ago. Double the historic gap, and it'd almost be like two different languages.)

But it's a romantic fantasy, so I realize we're supposed to suspend reality and just accept things the way they happen. And for the most part, it isn't difficult to do with this story. The only detail I seriously had trouble with . . . is the idea that two aspirin can cure a deadly medieval fever in a matter of minutes.

"Outlander" it isn't. But it makes a good enough read if you're looking for something to pass time.
I loved this book! It was full of humor, passion, excitement, and love. I laughed and cried over this book so its a definate keeper!
This is a time travel book. The Hero , Alasdair, has just helped Robert the Bruce to take Edinburgh Castle from the English. He and his men are celebrating when a witch dares Alasdair to follow her. He does and suddenly finds himself still at the castle but almost 700 years in the future. In 1998 american Morgan Lafayette is on vacation with her sister and brother-in-law. She finds the Highlander and thinks that he is an actor playing the part for the amusement of the tourist. She soon discovers though that something has happened to make all the history that she has known change. She begins to suspect that Alasdair is truley from the past and tries to help him get back. Alasdair at first thinks that Morgan is the legendary witch Margaine Le Fee and fights his growing feelings for her. He desparetly wants to return to his home in his time but his feelings for Morgan are a problem.

Together they must find a way to get Alasdair back. Along the way they encounter some very interesting people and some funny situations. Morgan's sister and brother-in-law are having a romance of their own but add to the over all book.

I cried when this book was done. It had a great ending and I hope if you read it you don't read the ending first, it will spoil the story. I hope to read others by this author.
I read this book in search of something similar to 'The Outlander" series by Diana Gabaldon and I think I found it was well worth the search. The story started out a little slow with each of the characters in their own time and life, but by about 30-40 pages into the story I was hooked. I have to admit to staying up very late the Saturday evening I started it and spending almost my entire Sunday with my nose burried in the pages and my heart caught up in a love that could withstand the passage of time. This is a book I would highly recomend.
I took a while to get into this story but when I did I was so glad I persevered. It was a beautifull ending and well worth the wait.

Alisdair MacAuley is sent forward in time to change history even though he doesn't it. He thinks he is in a powerful scorceress castle when he meets Morgan Lafayette.

Thank you Claire for giving us this story.
I bought this book last week. Normally I love Time Travel books based in Scotland (I'm Scottish and live in Scotland). But, unfortunately I am rapidly going off this book. I don't really know what is wrong with it, it's not grabbing my attention as some other books have. I have no feeling for the characters in any shape or form. For all I care 'they could go and hing themselves from the nearest lamp-post'. One thing that has really annoyed me is that Claire Cross has tried to be clever and have the hero coming forward in time and therefore change history. The Scots lost Bannockburn, Robert the Bruce is branded as a thief and scoundrel and England (which she insists on calling Britain!!) lords over Scotland. HEY! Maybe that's why I don't like the book!!

No, to be honest this could have been an excellent story, but to me it is wasted by an author who doesn't have the talent for this type of story.
While celebrating the reclaiming of a Edinburgh Castle, a Scottish warrior heads down a flight of stairs--and into another century...

Scottland, 1998. When a beautiful American traveller stumbles upon this handsome Highlander, she is intensely drawn to the mystery surrounding this man, a mystery that has the power to alter history--and her heart--forever...
Rerations
< The Last Highlander (Time Passages Romance Series , No 13) > < My Lady in Time (Time Passages Romance) > < Echoes of Tomorrow (Time Passages Romance) > < Lost Yesterday (Time Passages Romance) > < Nick of Time (Time Passages Romance) > freaks

< Timeswept Brides > < Rakes and Rogues (Signet) > < Truly > < Silent Melody > < First Comes Marriage > < A Regency Christmas 1 (Super Regency, Signet) > Mary Balogh,Constance O'Banyon,Elda Minger,Virginia Brown

price：~~$11.91~~
Jove

customer 's review
(Mary Balogh's story is the only one worth reading)

(A nice break from everday worries.)

From the back cover:

THE HEIRLOOM by Mary Balogh: A bewitching sapphire engagement ring leads a skittish groom to Regency Wales--where he learns there is no love like the present...

A DREAM ACROSS TIME by Constance O'Banyon: When a lovely librarian chases her dream to a New Orleans plantation, she finds a faded bridal veil she swears she has worn before...

MAN OF HER DREAMS by Virginia Brown: An antique wedding gown lures a Mississippi belle to the Civil War--and into the arms of a rebel love...

BRIDE'S JOY by Elda Minger: Love letters in an English manor send a reluctant bride into a centure past, where she must break a curse--and return to the church on time...

And my review:

Mary Balogh's THE HEIRLOOM was the only story in this book worth reading. She managed to create a lovely dual romance with a touch of the paranormal in just under 70 pages, and managed to make it touching and believeable. Now that's talent! Four stars.

Constance O'Banyon's A DREAM ACROSS TIME just wasn't engrossing. But then I wasn't surprised. I know this author has a big following, but her writing does nothing to capture me. And the heroine came across as weird. I just couldn't connect with her at all. One star.

Virginia Brown's MAN OF HER DREAMS suffered from a rushed romance and a large dose of unreality. People in this story kept doing thing that just made no sense. For instance, the heroine's ancestor, upon finding an unannounced houseguest in the middle of the night (the heroine), just accepts the heroine's assurance that they're related and gives her a room to stay in. Uh...okay. If a person who I'd never even heard of before, let alone met, was walking around me house in a robe, and then claimed to be one of my distant relatives, I'd be tossing them out the door and calling the police, not putting them up in my guest room! And the hero in this story came across as arrogant and full of himself. I guess he was supposed to be cocky and self-assured, but he just annoyed the heck out of me. Also, there was more political struggle in this story than romance. One star.

Elda Minger's BRIDE'S JOY was a story that focused more on the heroine breaking a curse than it did on romance. I just didn't feel the chemistry between the two leads, and that's vital for a good romance read. One star.

As with most romance anthologies, the limited space means that the authors don't get enough room to work, resulting in a bunch of weak stories. If you find one good story, then you're lucky. In this case, one of the authors is Mary Balogh, and she has enough talent to pull off a novella.

But even that story is one that you'll only bother to read once. Borrow this book from the library if you're still determined to read it, but apart for Mary Balogh's contribution, you might want to skip TIMESWEPT BRIDES altoghter.
I enjoyed the stories. Each one held enough adventure, romance, and fun for a quick escape from reality.
Four stories of romantic love across time include "The Heirloom" by Mary Balogh, "A Dream Across Time" by Constance O'Banyon, "Man of Her Dreams" by Virginia Brown, and "Bride's Joy" by Elda Minger. Original.
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< Timeswept Brides > < Rakes and Rogues (Signet) > < Truly > < Silent Melody > < First Comes Marriage > freaks

< Nell (Sonnet Books) > < Irish Lady > < Blood Roses > < Irish Fire > < A Delicate Finish (MIRA) > < The Delaney Woman > Jeanette Baker

price：~~$10.00~~
Pocket

customer 's review
(Facinating)

(Delicious and Captivating!)

(Like a Fine Wine)

(Compelling, Sensual, Memorable)

(Amazing.)

This book started out slow - but reels you in quickly and efficently. After the first few chapters, this book is hard to put down. The story is fantastic and the characters are so believable. This novel is very well written and I would recommend it for anyone who enjoys diving into a great story.
Jeanette does a masterful job of weaving history, politics, intrigue, and love. Her detail to the landscape will positively transport you to another time and dimension. The characters are so realistic and raw you will miss them terribly the minute you finish the last page. Don't miss Frankie and Jillian's story. This is art. I would read absolutely anything this gifted woman writes!
that needed a little more time before it was opened. It was full-bodied, great legs, beautiful nose but sounded some sour notes on the finish. This writer is truly without equal with regard to her exhaustive research into contemporary and medieval Ireland, and she loads her prose with such exquisite details. Her characters, from the contemporary lovestory of Jillian and Frankie to the medieval romance of Nell and Donal, are each sound and three-dimensional. But the story takes a wrong turn with the light treatment of the demise of a minor character, in the wake of which I felt the main characters should certainly have behaved with more decorum. Three-quarters of the way through, the author falls back on tired devices, like the confession that keeps getting interrupted until it's too late, etc., and at any rate, I lost much of my empathy for Jillian by the end of the book. Frankie, as the hero, stopped making interesting choices and was just not compelling romantically. The love scenes just left me cold.
This book was breathtaking! I loved it from the beginning, and it only got better with each page I read. Even now, months after I finished it, I still find myself thinking about Frankie and Jillian. And I would have enjoyed it just as much if the time travel aspect was omitted because I was so completely enthralled with the contemporary part of the story. The characters really jump off the pages. Ms. Baker is a wonderful writer, and it's obvious that she knows Ireland well.
It's been a looooong time since I've gotten so pulled into a book that I've abandoned EVERYTHING in order to park myself on the couch and read the bulk of it in one sitting. NELL absolutely blew me away, put me through an emotional wringer the likes of which I haven't been through in years. Jeanette Baker writes with a clear, deft, evocative hand, bringing her characters to brilliant life. And she brings the reader right into that life with them. I've no doubt at all that these characters--and this book--will stay with me for some time to come.

With "characters so realistic that their emotions seem to leap off the pages"(The Literary Times),Jeanette Baker's evocative romances weave past and present into one luminescent tapestry of love that surpasses the bounds of time. Now she holds us spellbound with the story of a woman whose future depends on a betrayal that happened five hundred years before....

Jillian Fitzgerald, whose grand house had sixty rooms, grew up together with Frankie Maguire, the kennel keeper's son, in Northern Ireland. That she was rich and he was poor did not daunt their dreams of someday marrying. But Jillian was headed for a privileged life and the university. Frankie, drawn into the nationalist cause, faced a charge of murder and the dark walls of a jail cell.

With their lives torn apart, there seemed no chance for Jillian and Frankie. But the heart owns knowledge to which the mind is not privy. Generations before, an Irish princess, Eleanor "Nell" Fitzgerald, her family killed, her life in jeopardy, her beloved torn from her arms, was preparing to reach out to another woman who shared her heritage...a woman in another century. Now, from the court of Henry VIII to the violent streets of modern Belfast, Nell and Jillian will become two souls joined in one courageous battle to prove that neither prison bars nor the hands of time can stop the power of love.
Rerations
< Nell (Sonnet Books) > < Irish Lady > < Blood Roses > < Irish Fire > < A Delicate Finish (MIRA) > freaks

< After the Storm > < Their One and Only > < Warrior > < Menagerie > < Only Pleasure > < Salvation (Dark Elves, Books 3-4) > Tia Isabella

price：~~$4.18~~
Ellora's Cave(2008-08-01)
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customer 's review
(I liked it, but not as much as some of her other books. The sources of conflict are good.)

(Definite Recommend)

(INCREDIBLE!)

STORY BRIEF:
Maya is an archaeologist in 2001. She and her friend Sara are walking on the beach as a storm approaches with a time travel wormhole. They get transported to the year 1314 in Scotland. Thomas is laird of the MacGregor clan and never smiles. He and Maya fall in love. Robert MacAllister is Thomas's enemy. Robert wants to steal Maya for himself.

REVIEWER'S OPINION:
I've read most of Jaid Black's work, and I love her as an author. Jaid Black is creative, doesn't do the predictable, has unexpected humor and almost always surprises and delights me in her work. This was one of her earlier books, written under the name Tia Isabella. Many romance novels have good guys and bad guys, and I can often predict the conflicts. Not so in this book. On a few occasions, the bad guy did something clever, but the good guys were able to figure it out and not fall for it. It was a nice change of pace. The story continued beyond the couple getting married which was a little different as well. Sometimes, I was chuckling at the odd sound of some modern day sentences using old Scottish/Gaelic words. For example, one guy is saying to another "I am rubber, ye are glue. Whatever ye say bounces off my fine form and sticks tae the likes of ye." I'm glad I read this book, but if you haven't read any of Jaid Black, I recommend you start with some of her other books first, see below.

DATA:
I read this as an ebook on Kindle. Story length: Kindle count 7112 (about 6 hours reading time). Swearing language: strong. Sexual language: strong. Number of sex scenes: 11. Total number of sex scene pages: 29 Kindle pages (using text size 1). Setting: 2001 Tampa, Florida, and 1314 Scottish Highlands. Copyright: 2001. Genre: time-travel historical romance.

OTHER BOOKS:
For a list of my reviews of other Jaid Black books, see my 5 star review of "One Dark Night" posted 4/2/08.
This is a story of a pair of female anthropologists that are studying the relics from an ancient castle in Scotland. Maya finds that the painting of the Lady MacGregor is very similiar to her in eye color and hair color. She and her friend Sara are intrigued by the Clan MacGregor.

While walking on the beach during a hurricane the two girls are swept bak in time to meet this Clan. Maya and Thomas, the laird of the clan, antagonize each other. both being strong willed and independent. Maya just wants to get home, until she realizes that she has fallen in love with Thomas.

Thomas has been taught that women are faithless and untrustworthy. He is unprepared for the force of his attraction to Maya. I will say he is open minded when Maya explains her origins.

This is a great story and although not as steamy as some of Jaid Black's other stories it is very enjoyable.
What an amazing book! If you're tired of the same old formula when it comes to historical romance then you'll love yourself for getting a copy of After the Storm. This story has everything! From time travel, to humor, to intense emotion and erotic sensuality this book is a definite keeper.

In the present day Maya Jones is one of the worlds leading anthropologists. After unearthing some amazing artifacts from an ancient scottish castle, Maya finds herself drawn inexplicably to the story of the Laird of the castle. Thinking of taking a small vacation Maya and a friend find themselves participating in a hurricane party on the coast of Florida where *poof!* she and her best friend are swallowed up by the storm and transported through a wormhole into ancient Scotland! Using her understanding of ancient peoples Maya and her friend become part of an ancient and fearsome clan the MacGregors!

Most amazing is that Maya finds herself as drawn to Laird MacGregor in the flesh as her historical view of the Laird. She's never known a more virile or exasperatingly stubborn man. Hilarious hijinks ensue as Maya and the Laird take turns pursuing each other, forging an earth shattering love that spans through the ages and gives birth to a dynasty.

I also recommend Before the Fire also by Tia Isabella and any and all books by Jaid Black.
Modern day anthropologist Maya Jones has been contracted by a Scottish university to help unearth and catalog ancient relics within a recently discovered secret lair in what was once the Castle MacGregor. From the beginning of her assignment, Maya has been inexplicably drawn to any references she could find concerning the clan's brutal and mysterious 14th century laird Thomas MacGregor.

Equally intriguing to her are paintings and stories referencing the MacGregor's wife, known to antiquity only as Lady M. The paintings were severely charred in a castle fire run amok a couple of centuries past, but Maya can make out enough of the damaged portraits to surmise that, oddly enough, she and Lady M possess the same hair and eye color. When a ferocious hurricane ravages Maya's hometown, she'll find out that she and the lady's similar physical features are more than just mere coincidence...
Rerations
< After the Storm > < Their One and Only > < Warrior > < Menagerie > < Only Pleasure > freaks

< Off World 2: Sanctuary > < Off World > < Beautiful Monster > < My Fair Captain > < The Cost of Eternity > < The Assignment > Stephanie Vaughan

price：~~$2.09~~
Torquere Press(2008-08-06)
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customer 's review
(The author delivers a second time)

(Wonderful sequel!)

(A sequel which excels its predecessor.)

While I prefer the main characters in the first book in this series, it's strictly a matter of liking my tops to be big and brawny and my bottoms to be lithe and agile.

D'Abu and Alex are great characters and aside from the roles they take in bed I enjoyed everything about their budding romance. Unlike the characters in the first book Alex has much bigger hurdles to overcome on the way to love or even just trust, but I found myself rooting him on all the way. The progression was natural and not too fast or too slow.

I really like this world created by Ms. Vaughn and I hope the author returns to it again and again.
I loved this sequel to Off World. I've become a fan of Stephanie Vaughan's sexy sci-fi series starting with Off World which tells Cal and Sarhaan's story. However, OW2 can definitely be read stand alone, though truthfully, it was the character development and engulfing eroticism between the heroes in the first book that made me read OW2 and has left me begging and panting for a third one. I love Vaughan's writing style - crisp and lively, her descriptions of the delicious men loving each other and the heartfelt romance that develops between them have all got me hooked! There are many, many erotic m/m books out there now and so I've become highly selective - Stephanie Vaughan is one writer I enjoy reading so much because I know I'll get a thoroughly satisfying read.
Unlike the prequel, Off World 2 focuses less on mysteries and intrigues and more on romance and relationship, this time between Sandy D'Abu and Alex Valentine. To get the most out of the characters and the world Vaughan has created, it is recommended to read the prequel first.
Both Sandy and Alex are appealing and well flushed out characters. Alex is one tortured soul as he bravely tries to make a decent living having survived years as a pleasure slave, which left him broken and afraid of intimacy. Fortunately he has Sandy to look out for him. Sandy may be a tough alpha soldier, powerful and dominating in physique, but when it comes to Alex, he is one gentle soul as he patiently nurtures and loves Alex. There is also a revelation on Sandy's sexual preference which I find is a tender side of this big mountain of a man. Theirs is a touching love story, with emotionally tense and stirring moments when Alex reverts to his old self, trying desperately to please. The title Sanctuary is most fitting as Alex finds just that. There is a solid plot here as ghosts from Alex's and the Vigilant crew's pasts returned to haunt them. I hope there is more to come as I would love to read one Kai Xuwicha finding his soul mate.
Vigilant crewmember Sandy D'abu stays behind on Doradus station to mind the crew's new secure cargo business while the rest of the guys take the spaceship out on a run. There isn't a lot for him to do, so he spends his evenings at Durty Nelly's, keeping an eye on bartender Alex, a former pleasure slave a few of his crewmates feel responsible for. When the man who made Alex's a pleasure slave back on Earth suddenly turns up as part-owner of the sex club, Sandy agrees to help Alex out by pretending to be his boyfriend. After all, what are a few kisses among friends? The problem is that Sandy doesn't want to pretend; he's already in love with Alex. Alex is still skittish about being touched at all by anyone, let alone kissed by the huge ex-soldier, and if that wasn't enough, there are plenty of bad guys in both Sandy and Alex's pasts back on earth who have escaped to Doradus station too, and they all want a piece of the action. Will Sandy and Alex be able to put the past, and the men who want to hurt them, behind them to find a future together? Find out in this passionate sequel to Off World.
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< Off World 2: Sanctuary > < Off World > < Beautiful Monster > < My Fair Captain > < The Cost of Eternity > freaks

< Forever Angels (Love Spell) > < Time of the Rose (Time Swept Romance) > < Time Heals > < There Never Was a Time (Timeswept) > Trana Mae Simmons

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Love Spell

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(A wonderfully funny romance)

This book made me laugh so hard I almost fell out of my bed. The story is about a woman in modern times who's fiance wants her to sign a prenuptial agreement. This sends her off to climb a mountain. She is minding her own business when her guardian angel in training sneezes and sends her back to the 1890's! She is very confused about all of this and so is the hero and his children who have seen her practically fall out of the sky. The handsome Oklahoma cowboy is trying to find out who is behind the damage happening to his ranch and is suspicious of the woman who is wearing strange clothing. But he is also highly attracted to her and when they finally admit that they have fallen for each other he is unsure of whether she will stay with him or not. The secondary characters of the guardian angel in training and his trainer are hilarious and had me in tears. The scene with the cow is the best. Pick this book up for sure.
Unhappy about her boyfriend's requirement that she sign a prenuptial agreement, a sneeze from her guardian angel sends Tess Foster back to the 1890s, where she is rescued from the Oklahoma wilderness by cowboy Stone Chisum.
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< Forever Angels (Love Spell) > < Time of the Rose (Time Swept Romance) > < Time Heals > freaks

< Beyond Forever > < Devil's Honor > < Saint's Temptation > < The Sorcerer's Lady (Timeswept : Love Spell Time-Travel Romance) > < Dangerous > < His Captive Lady (Berkley Sensation) > Debra Dier

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Leisure Books

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(GREAT BOOK!!)

(I really liked this book)

(One of the few paperback romances on my keeper shelf.)

(Captivating historical adventure)

(Best ever book I have read)

Love the book, from the beginning to the end, the book grabed me in the first chapter and I could not put it down.
Really enjoyed this timeswept storyline. It was not the most captivating book I have read but I still think it is a five star book.
I was amazed to read several reviews, including one here, that loved the beginning and hated the middle of this book. It is the middle that made this a book that I kept and read again and again. There would be no book if Ms Dier had stayed in the present. Gavin's problem could only be solved in the past. An easy and happy solution to Gavin's problems in the past would have made this another average romance novel. (Based on the set in the present beginning, I am sure I would have loved the book, but it still would have been an everyday average read.) The exploration of Julia's decision to fight to save Gavin, from the dangers around him and himself, and Gavin's internal battle to trust Julia and overcome the bitter man he was at the time of his original death are what make this a extraordinary novel.

By the way the original plot twist at the end gives a new meaning to happy ever after.
I had so much fun reading this book! It is one of the best romance books I've ever read. Debra Dier is a master at her craft, having created an intelligent historic romance rich with adventure, intrigue, mystery, and sensuality. This is an evocative original-a must read.
What a wonderful story this is. When you think these two wonderfull people have no chance of happiness a miracle occurs.

Gavin is a tortured soul looking for his one true love to perform a miracle, and give each other another chance to live and love again in another lifetime.

The scene where Gavin's ghost comes for Julia to take her back to her time was one of the most poinient I have ever read. I was in tears while Julia was holding the body of her dead lover and talking to his ghost.

Debra please write a sequel to this book. You have plenty of scope to do so. There's Patrick's and Brandon's stories you could write. I want to read about Gavin and Julia's lives for ever and ever. Thank you Debra for giving me the best ever book to read. This one I will treasure for the rest of my days.
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< Beyond Forever > < Devil's Honor > < Saint's Temptation > < The Sorcerer's Lady (Timeswept : Love Spell Time-Travel Romance) > < Dangerous > freaks

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