< Déjà Vu > Cass Andre

< Always Mine (Zebra Historical Romance) > Sandra Landry

I highly recommend THE WISHING CHALICE as a true romantic love story filled with intrigue, betrayal, and the bonding of two people who truly belong together, no matter what the era, or setting. I haven't read Ms. Landry's first novel, A PERFECT LOVE, but am keeping my eyes open for a copy!
The story is crafted well, the way both lead characters are trying to use the cup for their various path to love is engaging. I really enjoyed this book. Not sure if it's first time book by this author, but the characters and the setting make me want to check out her other works if she has any or buy future books from me. A very sweet story that makes you really care about the people.
Sandra Landry brings a bright voice to Paranormal Romance with "The Wishing Chalice". A combination of three things - a Chalice, a deep wish and a violent thunderstorm - propels Isabel Herbert back in time. Just not in time, but into another's body. She awakes in another's bed, and in the arms of another's husband - Hunter of Windermere Castle. Handsome Hunter could make the memories of the 21st Century fade fast.

Only, Hunter is puzzled by his wife's sudden change. She was distant from him, especially in bed. Suddenly, they are heating up the covers. However, Hunter also made a wish on his mother's chalice and now believes this is the reason for the change in his wife. But how long will Hunter be granted the dream of a loving wife?

So the chalice, to Isobel, is the means of return to the 21st Century, if she so chooses. But Isobel is seeking it not only for the possible return, but to see into the future, to know if this is where she belongs. Meanwhile Hunter is busy hiding

it hoping it will keep his "new" wife as she is.

This time travel - by having her arrive in another's body instead of just popping back herself - creates a lot of internal conflicts as well as a long of external problems for Isobel. You even get a "guest appearance" of Robert the Bruce in
the novel. So, it's a story that will keep the readers interested to the very end.
Twenty-five year old Isabel currently lives in England at her late grandmother's cottage as she recovers from a miscarriage and a divorce. England is not a strange land for Isabel as her English mother has lived there following the death of her American husband (Isabel's father) three years ago.

Isobel wanders a cemetery filled with the gravestones of her ancestors when the weather turns nasty. She seeks shelter, which Isabel finds in a dilapidated castle. There she notices a beautiful chalice.

Not long afterward, Isobel realizes something is not right in her world. She is no longer amidst ruins, but instead is inside a thriving castle. Stranger yet is the body that her mind resides in as she learns she is married to Hunter and living in Windermere Castle as his wife Detra in 1315. As she adapts to a new body and century (a bit too easily) she falls in love with her spouse who wonders if his wife is beginning to love him though he worries about her sanity.

Fans of time travel romance will enjoy the fine THE WISHING CHALICE though the story line is somewhat typical of the sub-genre as Isabel mentally adapts too easily for a modern day western woman going back to medieval times. Used to freedom of decision, Isabel would have to deal with loss of independence similar to the women trying to obtain any authority in post Taliban Afghanistan. Still the lead couple is a charming duet as Hunter is bewildered by his spouse's seemingly attitude adjustment and the support cast brings to live the early fourteenth century. The sub-genre audience will appreciate Sandra Landry's quality tale.

Harriet Klausner
Isabel journeyed to England to escape her failed marriage. But what she found instead was a portal to the past--and possibly the key to her future.

Transported back in time, and into the body of a beautiful woman, she cannot deny her growing attraction to her 'husband' Hunter. Nor can they ignore the danger surrounding them, which they must confront--before tragedy strikes.
Rerations
< The Wishing Chalice (Berkley Sensation) > < The Last Bride (Berkley Sensation) > < Knight's Legacy > < A Perfect Love (Time Passages) > < The Changeling Bride (Timeswept) > freaks

< The Vow: A Novel of the American West > Linda Miller

Rue Claridge doesn't know what happened to her cousin Elisabeth, but she's determined to find out. The authorities have dismissed Elisabeth's disappearance, but Rue is convinced that something strange has happened. Even so, Rue never suspected that finding Elisabeth would land her right in the past -- and in jail, compliments of Marshal Farley Haynes. The local sheriff doesn't know what to make of this trouser-wearing, poker-playing woman, but he's definitely intrigued. When he discovers her world, thought, he finds himself torn between a past he must honor . . . And a future with Rue.
Rerations
< Beyond The Threshold > < My Outlaw > < Memory's Embrace > < Knights > < Moonfire > freaks

< The Last Highlander (Time Passages Romance Series , No 13) > Christine Holden

Harriet Klausner
England, 1413. Ailith deCotmer, the only child of an astrologer, is sent through time to escape the attentions of a cruel and lascivious lord. New Orleans, 1998. At a medieval club, Joshua Kenley bumps into a lovely young woman dressed in period clothing, but he knows she isn't a club member. Ailith struggles to convince him that she has traveled through time, even as she falls in love with the handsome man. But can their love survive another timely journey to the past?
Rerations
< A Time For Us > < A Hitch in Time (Time Passages) > < My Lady in Time (Time Passages Romance) > < My Heart Stood Still > < Whispers through Time (Time Passages) > freaks

< Spirited Away (Signet Eclipse) > Charles Henry

< In My Dreams (Harper Historical Romance) > Susan Sizemore

< Cherished Invader > Samantha Gail

I hope she writes many more books.
Saviour in time by Samantha Gail is a time travel story with a very unique twist. A twist that is allowed by iUniverse the publishers but not by many of the others who publish time travel romances. The twist in this novel is that the time travel here takes place though a machine and is not only deliberate but with the purpose of altering the past.

Remala Picard-Moreau is a Knight of the Order of Shaynvar and lives in the twenty-second century. She is a guardian of time travel who is ordered on missions through time.

Her latest mission is to go back to the year 976AD and rescue a small village from destruction.

Beravael is the King of Birasett, a Viking warrior and a man used to getting exactly what he wants. And what he wants is Remala as his queen. He believes that she has been sent by the Gods to help him and he intends to keep her with him.

However Remala is not prepared to abandon the Order of Shaynvar and remain in the past forever. But she is conspired against from all sides and tricked into marriage with Beraveal.

I don't want to spoil the whole plot for those who have not read this book but it is well worth reading just for the answers to some of those time travel questions that no one else seems to want to answer.

How much should someone going back in time interfere?

Should a time traveller be allowed to take technology from the future back in time?

What would happen if there were no limits to how much you can meddle in the past?

All these questions and more are dealt with thoughtfully and without detracting from the main story of Remala and Beravael.

Louisa Brown
Magical Romance Website
As with the author's other two books, TRESPASS OF THE HEART and CHERISHED INVADER, I really liked SAVIOR IN TIME, but I cannot give it 5 stars. Ms. Gail always seems to introduce a subplot or character that never goes anywhere. In this book (since it travels back and forth in time) I can understand the changing sets of characters and plots, but it does get a little confusing.
For example, there was a whole page put in about two little village girls who had absolutely no bearing on the story and made you think you had two more characters to keep up with. Don't get me wrong--I LIKED the book and DO recommend it. I just think the author has this idiosyncrasy in her books.
She is a woman of power who follows a higher calling...

Remala Picard-Moreau, Knight of the Order of Shaynvar lives to serve and protect in the twenty-second century. Her fealty is sworn. As guardians of time travel and respected sentinels of space, the revered Shaynvar Knights shoulder a heavy weight of responsibility extending across the galaxy and beyond. Sent back to the year 976AD to rescue a small village from destruction, Remala senses from the outset that this is no ordinary mission.

He is a fearless Viking warrior who decides his own fate...

The King of Birasett has finally found his mate. Beravael has long awaited the one who will bear his children and he will have no other Queen than the remarkable woman sent by the Gods to fight at his side. Of course, convincing her of that fact will not be a simple matter. His decision made, Beravael works quickly. Knowing the price Remala puts on her word and honor, the wily King tricks her into a binding marriage, demanding obedience while simultaneously offering a limited compromise.

Prepare yourself for a clash of titans...

He is as stubborn and irresistible a male as Remala has encountered on any world and in any century. To continue her duties for the Shaynvar, Remala must first be granted permission by the audacious, eternally suspicious, high-handed King. None of her training has prepared her for the sublime sensory onslaught that is King Beravael of Birasett. His exquisite touch can bring on a devastating distraction, scorching her willpower to cinders and temporarily silencing any grievance she might have cause to make. While Beravael whittles down her resistance, Remala struggles desperately to fulfill her obligations in both centuries, inadvertently embarking them all on a collision course with annihilation.
Rerations
< Savior in Time > freaks

< Here With Me (Berkley Sensation) > Maura Mckenzie