< Spirited Away > Melanie Jackson

Together they must overcome their human enemies and the fairy dangers which await them. I enjoyed the excitement in this book. You weren't sure what was going to happen next. I plan on reading more of thisd authors works in the future.
I am one of the male managers of WISE Writers and Readers, and I generally leave the reviewing to Lady Ashorah, the head of WISE. But I wanted to say the male readers at WISE loved this book!!

Melanie is a super writer, with a haunting, evocative quality that leads the reader into a drama drawn from real historical events. She is one of the strongest historical writers around.

WISE WrIters and Readers Book of the Month for MAY and Book of the Year for 2001
Taffy and Malcolm are extremely beleivable charactors in a fantastic faerie filled plot. The plot is fey but the Taffy and Malcolm are 3-D humans.
Part of what makes this book so believalbe is that it is based on real historical fact and the resulting ghost story that sprang up around a real life piper/hero. The real Malcolm knowingly gave his life for what he beleived in. Moreover, the death he suffered was not kind.
This books just gets better the more often you read it.
Ok, I read hundreds of books a year, and in that time frame, there are about 1 to 2 books I just can't finish. Night Visitor is my second one this year (and hopefully my last). There were so many typos and glaring grammatical mistakes (two things I usually read right over) that I just could not get into the story. I got about half way through it, and found that the characters were dull, flat and wholly unrealistic. I tried to suspend my belief because this is a fantasy (fairie story) but nothing I read made me want to continue on.

A female photographer from the late 1800's, with a father who doesn't understand her and is patronizing coupled with a Scottish piper that has farie blood (oh yes, let us not forget the diluted fairie blood in our heroine as well!) sets our story. The piper is killed for warning his allies about a trap set. For this, his hands are cut off and he dies (supposedly bad luck for the killers since you are not supposed to kill a piper). His pipes haunt the castle for 200 years until our heroine touches his newly uncovered bones and makes a connection to him. This is the first few chapters and the most interesting part of the story. Our heroine then goes to the past to rescue our hero. Everything else seems to rush past, with little description or depth.

I rarely do this, but I suggest you steer clear of Night Visitor, there are better stories out there.
Rerations
< Night Visitor (Timeswept) > < Thirty Nights with a Highland Husband (The Daughters of the Glen, Book 1) > < Touched By Time (Zebra Regency Romance) > < Highland Guardian (Daughters of the Glen, Book 2) > < A Highlander of Her Own (Daughters of the Glen, Book 4) > freaks

< River of Dreams (Time Passages Romance Series) > Vickie Presley

Harriet Klausner
Rerations
< Yesterday and Forever (Time Passages Romance) > < Heaven's Time (Time Passages Series , No 12) > < Silver Tomorrows (Time Passages Romance) > < An Echo in Time (Time Passages Romance Series) > < Untamed Time (Time Passages) > freaks

< Hawk's Lady Love > Holly Petersen

< A Tryst in Time (Timeswept) > Eugenia Riley

< Traveler (Wildside Romance) > Melanie Jackson

WISE Writers and Readers Book of the Month August 2002

Dominick loathed Rychard and God for taking away his beloved pregnant wife Isabella. He vowed that he would regain his love one day, but continued to fight for the Great One's priests in defending what remained of Charlemagne's once proud empire.

Over several lives during the next millennium, Dom rejected the notion of a new love having never recovered from the loss of his beloved Isabella. He reputes any other love, as Dom only wants Isabella.

Opera singer Laris Thiessen suffers disturbing dreams in which the repetitions which occurs every night makes her weary and wary. When she meets Dom, Laris realizes he is the co-star of what has taken on nightmarish proportions every time she sleeps. Now if he can only convince her to believe that they once shared a love of a shortened lifetime that deserves eternity by escaping into their pasts. Still, his enemy stalks them, but perhaps Dom will find the solace he has lacked for a thousand years.

DOMINION is a very complex romance that uses reincarnation, time travel, and other religious celestial elements to provide readers with a deep tale. Because of the complexities of the plot, the novel starts off slow as Melanie Jackson needs time to introduce the various elements and key players to the audience. Give the story line a chance because once it shifts into gear it never slows down until the climax enabling the obsessed Dom to hook the audience as he battles with the Heavens for love.

Harriet Klausner
Rerations
< Dominion > < Divine Fire > < The Selkie > < The Courier > < Still Life (Wildside Romance) > freaks

< Wagons to the Past > Jean Hackensmith,Kathe Birch

"Doomed Passage" is the final, long-awaited book in the "Passage" time-travel trilogy. The book brings the story of the amulet full circle and, by the end, all of the "previous owners" will strive to drive the evil from a powerful talisman that, to this point, has worked only for the good.
Rerations
< Doomed Passage (Passage Time Travel Trilogy) > < Destined Passage > < Charmed Passage > < The Ultimate Passage > < Southern Cross > freaks

< Déjà Vu > Cass Andre

< Highland Magic (Time Travel Romance) > Tess Mallory

< Devil May Cry (Dark-Hunter, Book 11) > Colleen Love

< Mystic Memories (Time Passages) > Christine Holden

John Savoy
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To be perfectly honest, time travel romances are not my favorite romances to read. However, this book may have changed my mind. Normally, these books have a woman going back in time and meeting the man of her dreams. However, this book has the hero going back in time to 1853, where he finds the woman of his dreams. But this woman, Marianne is engaged to wed his great-great grandfather, Rafe Montague. Rafe has taken an intense hatred of our hero, Drew. From there, the story escalates into a mad rush for Drew to find the pocketwatch, convince Marianne to return to 2000 with him, and keep the family's sugar plantation, Bienvenu, from ruin. I loved this book and it definitely has a spot in my bookcase.
New Orleans, 1853 Law student Andrew Montague is desperate for money to continue his studies and support his two-year old daughter, Teal, but his estranged and tyrannical father has cut off his funds. He wants Drew to quit law school and concentrate on the family business. Extremely unhappy, but realizing he has no other choice if he wishes to support Teal, Drew agrees to a deal with his father. If, after working at the plantation and learning the family business for one full year, Drew still wants to continue learning the law, his father will release funds to let him do so. However, things don't turn out quite as planned. On the way back from walking his daughter's nanny to the bus stop, Drew comes across an old pocket watch hanging from a hitching post. Upon remembering an old chant one of his nannies had sung to him as a child, he finds himself struggling with a strong and unexplained need to chant it again. The ticking of the watch grows louder and louder and everything starts spinning. When the world finally rights itself again, Drew realizes the ticking has been replaced by silence. However, that's not all that has been replaced...

Despite the fact that she was younger than her sister, Marianne Beaufort has the weight of the world on her shoulders. She has promised herself into a loveless marriage in order to ensure that her mother and sister, Genevieve, can afford to maintain the lifestyle they led before her father died of the Fever. Marianne has accepted the marriage proposal of an affluent gentleman, Rafe Montague, who, aside from being the powerful and extremely wealthy owner of a prosperous plantation, is also known for his nasty temperament. On the night of her engagement to Rafe, Marianne is already late for the ball at the hotel when she almost trips over a man curled up outside the entrance. Concerned that he maybe hurt or that he's been robbed, she is drawn to him. The attraction between the two is instantaneous and strong. However, Rafe is not a man to stand by and watch his betrothed fall for another man - regardless that the man Mari is falling for is Rafe's great, great-grandson!

Set in the years of pre-Civil War, A HITCH IN TIME carries the reader back to a New Orleans when sacrifices made in the name of family honor were the norm and where deaths due to the Yellow Fever were common. Christine Holden's latest time travel romance promises a few hours of pleasure to those who like to read stories rich in historical flavor.

With wonderfully drawn and complex characters like Marianne, Drew and Rafe, I found myself swiftly turning the pages, eagerly anticipating what would happen next. Ms Holden has written an entertaining love story that glides along with enormous authority. The emotions and thoughts for each character were well depicted and I found myself thoroughly enmeshed in the tale. Rafe's character was very well written for he certainly came across as a true and very nasty villain!

A HITCH IN TIME boasts a plot that is made more interesting because of Drew's knowledge of his family history. The dialogue was witty and natural to the characters, especially the French phrases that added charm and authenticity to the story. However, what appealed to me most was the way Ms Holden wove her extensive research into the story so that it didn't come across as a history lesson at all, but rather as an integral part of the story. Facts like the sights and smells of what New Orleans must have been like in 1853, were extremely well presented.

For readers who enjoy time travel romances and stories steeped in historical details, A HITCH IN TIME is definitely a book worth reading.

Elena Channing...
In New Orleans, single father Andrew "Drew" Montague wants to continue his studies at Tulane Law School. However, his estranged father cuts him off with no money for school or to support his little toddler, Teal. His parents offer Drew a deal. If he works at the family plantation for one year, they will fund his schooling if he chooses to return. Because of Teal, Drew accepts.

That night, Drew escorts Teal's nanny to the bus stop. On his way back home, Drew touches a watch on a hitching post. When he awakens, he finds himself in 1853 where he meets Marianne Beaufort, fiancée to Drew's great, great grandfather, Rafe. As Drew and Marianne fall in love, he must watch out for the jealous, dangerous Rafe. He also worries a great deal about his beloved Teal.

A HITCH IN TIME is an entertaining time travel romance that will entice sub-genre fans to seek out other works by Christine Holden. The story line is fun especially Drew's various dilemmas and paradoxes. The cast, both contemporary and historical, adds depth to the characterizations of Marianne and Drew. This in turn allows the audience a better understanding of each of them. Readers will be beholden to the author if she writes more novels like A HITCH IN TIME.

Harriet Klausner
A modern-day man facing a personal dilemma. A New Orleans belle facing a loveless marriage. An enchanted pocket watch brings them together-can love's magic keep them that way?
Rerations
< A Hitch in Time (Time Passages) > < Time to Dream (Time Passages) > < Echoes of Tomorrow (Time Passages Romance) > < Distant Dreams (Time Passages) > < Timeless Wish > freaks