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(wish never bought)

(Fantastic Voyage!)

(Especially recommended for science fiction fans)

(The best book I have read in years)

I love time travels and am willing to forgive a lot, but this book was just not good. For the price well, it was outrageous. I didn't like any of the characters and found the book very difficult to read. In fact, I just scanned it after several tries and then never finished it. I was very disappointed, I had such high hopes bases on prior reviews.
I have read all of Van Horne's books and this is definitely my favorite! I learned so much about the French Revolution from reading this book. It was obvious that Ms. Van Horne did her research! All of her books have way of taking you on the journey with the character. Fantastic! I recommend any of her books to people who are intrigued with romance, time travel, or just a great story!!
The fifth book in the exciting "Time Travelers" series, The Diary of Jean-Jacques Coupier by Hollie Van Home is the engaging story of Celeste Montclaire, a contemporary woman who falls into a Time Tunnel and finds herself transported to 1793 Paris -- smack into the middle of the French Revolution. With loves and loyalties on both sides of the growing conflict, she must make her choices quickly; her very life hinges upon them! A rousing and engaging novel, in touch with its chosen era of history, The Diary of Jean-Jacques Coupier is especially recommended for science fiction fans with a penchant for time travel stories.
I have read all the Time Travelers books and I love them all, but I think this one may turn into my favorite because I think that this may be the best book I have ever read in my life. I got the book on a Tuesday and just read it non-stop until I was done. Her books are like that. You can't put them down. The characters just grab you and won't let go. I had to find out what would happen to them. The finest glimpse into the past you will ever read. If you have never read a book in this series, then you are missing one of the best new writers on the market today.
The Diary of Jean-Jacques Coupier ~ Time Travelers, Inc.'s Jim Cooper has found the woman of his dreams. She's Celeste Montclaire, a beautiful, strong-willed, intelligent, artistic attorney from New York City whose heart was broken many years ago by a mysterious lover she met when she was at art school in Paris, France. Though she enjoys her weekends of love with Jim at his woodsy cabin in Richfield Springs, New York, she can't shake the memory of Phillipe, the man who left her without a word of farewell. But the Time Tunnel has plans of its own when it takes her on a surprise trip to the Paris, France of 1793 and places her right in the middle of the French Revolution...alone! She's now Celeste Lacombe whose cousin, Claire Lacombe, is a notorious rabble rouser, leader of the Revolutionary Republican Women, and lover to the infamous newspaper editor, Leclerc. And Celeste's former lover -- son of an aristocrat -- Phillipe de Brouquens, and Jim Cooper's former life's personal, a police spy by the name of Jean-Jacques Coupier -- are there to make her new life even more complex. Now all she has to do is decide which man truly owns her heart -- and quickly. For her choice has now become a matter of life and death!
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< The Diary of Jean-Jacques Coupier (Time Travelers, 5) > < Portrait of Lydia (Time Travelers, 6) > < Reflections of Toddsville (Time Travelers, Book 1) > < Beneath the Wings of Isis (Time Travelers, 7) > < Wild Roses for Miss Jane (Time Travelers, 2) > freaks

< Yesterday and Forever (Time Passages Romance) > < An Echo in Time (Time Passages Romance Series) > < Heaven's Time (Time Passages Series , No 12) > < Only Time Will Tell (Time Passages Romance Series) > < Remember Love (Time Passages Series) > < Yesteryear's Love (Time Passages) > Vickie Presley

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(Enchanting!)

(A good read)

1999 and 1878 Wyoming

YESTERDAY AND FOREVER is warm and delightful time travel tale!

Very enjoyable!

Being a Native American holy place is the only reason the National Park Service has not been able to actually shut down the Medicine Wheel on the crest of Wyoming's Medicine Mountain. Still, people have mysteriously disappeared at the site even though only remnants remain of the centuries old structure. A few tourists, including Bailey Cooper, visit the site.

A strange occurrence happens and soon Bailey finds herself wrapped in a thick fog. Zach Gooden locates an unconscious

Bailey on his ranch. He takes her back to his home where she awakens with three little girls staring at her. Stunned to learn that she has traveled back over a century in time, Bailey begins to fall in love with her rescuer and his three sisters. While Zach struggles with an unknown assailant coveting his land, he too falls in love. Though Bailey wants to stay with Zach and the three hellions, she believes her time is in the future even if her heart remains in 1878.

YESTERDAY AND FOREVER is a pleasant novel that uses Indian mysticism as a chronological device to add time travel elements to a warm western romance. The characters are fun, though Bailey adjusts to the amenities of nineteenth century ranch life too easily. The three sisters live up to their names of Hope, Faith, and Charity even as their jocular actions provide sparks to the tale. By Jove, Vickie Presley scribes a pleasurable, entertaining book that Americana fans will relish.

Harriet Klausner
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< Yesterday and Forever (Time Passages Romance) > < An Echo in Time (Time Passages Romance Series) > < Heaven's Time (Time Passages Series , No 12) > < Only Time Will Tell (Time Passages Romance Series) > < Remember Love (Time Passages Series) > freaks

< A Love Beyond Time (Love Spell) > < Night Visitor (Timeswept) > < Highland Magic (Time Travel Romance) > < Love Once&Forever (Timeswept) > < Circles in Time (Timeswept) > < A Blast to the Past > Flora Speer

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(Average time-travel romance)

(Not as great as the first book - 3.5 stars)

(a good book)

(Her adventures hold the reader�s attention from the first pa)

From the back cover:

The man from the heavens...

Accidentally thrust back to the eighth century by a computer genius's time-travel program, Mike Bailey fell from the sky and landed near Charlemagne's camp. Knocked senseless by the crash, he couldn't remember his name, address, or occupation, but no shock could make his body forget how to respond when he awoke to the sight of an enchanting...

Angel on earth...

Headstrong and innocent, Danise was already eighteen and almost considered an old maid by the Frankish nobles who courted her. Yet the stubborn beauty chose to risk spending her life cloistered in a nunnery rather than marry for any reason besides love. Unexpectedly mesmerized by the stranger she discovered unconscious in the forest, Danise was quickly roused by an all-consuming passion--and a desire that would conquer time itself.

And my review:

This book was just okay. Not outstanding, and not terrible, either.

One thing I found interesting was that in this story, the man was the one to travel back in time. It seems that in 99% of time-travel romances, it's the heroine who does the time-travelling. Also, this author's use of the Charlemagne period (779 A.D.) was also unique, as I had never before read a story set in this period before.

The drawbacks were that this novel read more like a political history lesson that a romance novel. It was obviously well-researched, but sometimes I felt overwhelmed by the historical detail. I didn't feel that it wove seemlessly into the story.

Also, I felt that the romance aspect of this was sacrificed for the political struggle part of it. The romance was starting to develop nicely when the hero and heroine are seperated for a time. After that, they fall into bed together. I was left feeling a little bit cheated by this. I kind of felt that the heroine gave it away too easily, considering the time period, and especially considering that she'd just narrowly escaped from being gang-raped.

All in all, this book was okay. It wasn't horrible, but it wasn't one I'd highly recommend, either.
In this sequel to A TIME TO LOVE AGAIN, we get to see what happened with Danise who was a good friend of India Baldwin. It picks up from when Hank, the computer-geek obsessed with time travel, escapes with India's files and laptop. Hoping to stop Hank from recreating India's adventures in the eighth century and possibly changing the course of history, she enlists the help of archaeologist Mike Bailey. Unfortunately, the confrontation doesn't go according to plan and before he knew it, Michael is accidentally thrust back in time, right in the arms of Danise and with no memory whatsoever.

While out walking in the forest, Danise stumbles upon the unconscious stranger but instead of fear, she feels drawn to him, wanting to know more about the man with his strange clothes. And as she nurses him back to health, at the same time trying to help him regain his memory, both fight the intense attraction they feel for each other. For Danise, it is the fear that Michel (the adopted name of Mike) might in fact be married and she also feels guilty that she's betraying Hugo (the knight she fell in love with in the first book and who died the year before) whom she vowed to love for eternity. For Michel, it is his respect for Danise's father that stops him from pursuing her, not to mention that he doesn't have anything to offer her. And so both try to deny their growing feelings for each other, until Michel suddenly recovers his memory. Thinking that Hank wouldn't bring him back in order to eliminate the only witness he has, Michel accepts his life in 779AD and vows to live the life of a Frankish warrior hoping he will gain the wealth and respect he needs in order to pursue Danise.

A LOVE BEYOND TIME features some of the characters in the first book, with a few additions to complicate the storyline. Danise and Michel meet a year after she loses her beloved Hugo in the Battle of Roncevaux, and we see her still bearing her heartbreak over his death. While both main characters are likable, I found that the story lacked the spark and emotions that made me like the first book. I found some parts were unnecessarily stretched and so I skipped a lot of pages. I also didn't feel the depth of love between Michel and Danise, compared with Theo and India.

Having read "A Time to Love Again", I guess I had high expectations from this book, which is what makes me a bit critical. But even though this isn't as captivating as its predecessor, this is still quite an enjoyable read so long as you don't expect too much. Also if you have read the first book, don't expect to find an update on India and Theo's relationship, as their part in this is very little.
I enjoyed reading this book and was delighted to find out its a sequel. I'll go back and read the first book just as soon as I can order it.
This is a time travel book that has the hero traveling back in time to the time of Charlemagne. The hero is a modern day man who is trying to stop a scientist from sending people back in time. Mike accidentaly falls into the machine and ends up inn the 8th century and has no idea who he is or where he is. He is found by the beautiful young, by modern standards, Danise. She nurses him back to health and they fall for each other. But even though they have fallen in love they have serveral obsticals to overcome before they can be together. Enemies in both time periods try and rip them from each other.

This book has very tender love scenes and an interesting plot. I enjoyed this book quite a bit and I would highly recommend it.
Accidentally thrust back to the eight century by a computer genius's time-travel program, Mike Bailey fell from the sky and landed near Charlemagne's camp. Knocked senseless by the crash, he couldn't remember his name, address, or occupation, but no shock could make his body forget how to respond when he awoke to the sight of an enchanting Angel. Headstrong and innocent, Danise was already eighteen and almost considered an old maid by the Frankish nobles who courted her. Yet the stubborn beauty chose to risk spending her life cloistered in a nunnery rather than marry for any reason besides love. Unexpectedly mesmerized by the stranger she discovered unconscious in the forest, Danise was quickly roused by an all-consuming passion-and a desire that would conquer time itself.

Danise is the heroine and friend to India Baldwin (Of Time to Love Again) and this is her story.

Mike Bailey the hero of this story is the friend that Mark sent after the elusive Hank, whose computer genius started the whole mess, after he escape in Time to Love again.

Flora Speer does a great job of entertaining the reader from start to finish. The characters and plot are superb.
Thrust into the eighth century, Mike Bailey falls from the sky and lands near Charlemagne's camp. With no memory, he awakes to find the beautiful Danise, a headstrong 18-year-old who has been looking for the right man before getting married. The stranger she finds in the forest will quickly arouse in her an all-consuming passion.
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< A Love Beyond Time (Love Spell) > < Night Visitor (Timeswept) > < Highland Magic (Time Travel Romance) > < Love Once&Forever (Timeswept) > < Circles in Time (Timeswept) > freaks

< A Matter of Time (Time Passages) > < A Love Through Time (Time Passages) > < The Queen's Man (Time Passages) > < Once Forbidden (Highland Fling Romance) > < A Slip in Time > < Everything in Its Time (Time Passages) > Terri Brisbin

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Jove

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(TIME TRAVEL WITH A TWIST...)

(Brought Laughter, Tears, and Sighs - Excellent!)

(A good sequel to A LOVE THROUGH TIME)

(Great Book (Even without reading the first!))

(A Great Escape!)

This book is enjoyable, escapist entertainment. It is a fairly well written, time travel romance. I read it, not realizing that there was a prequel to it. It did not really matter, as the author had enough background information interwoven in the book, so as to make it totally comprehensible. The only thing it did was whet my appetite for the prequel, which I fully intend to read.

Here, a twentieth century doctor, Douglas MacKendimen, disillusioned with the practice of medicine, inadvertently goes back in time to fourteenth century Scotland. Having been brought up with tales of time travel by his parents, stories that he took to be fairy tales, he is amazed to find them to be true. While in the past, he discovers people who knew his parents and is amazed to realize that he himself was conceived in the past.

He also meets the woman of his dreams, literally. You see, Douglas had, for some time, been dreaming of a raven haired, green eyed beauty, and here she is in the flesh in the fourteenth century! It turns out that she is Caitlin MacInnis, a healer in her own time. With her help, the disillusioned doctor rediscovers why it was that he went into the medical profession in the first place, and he regains his joy in being a healer. Having fallen in love with Caitlin, he must now decide whether he will return to his own time, or remain in the past with the love of his life.

Read the book, to find out what he decides to do.
The MacKendimen saga comes full circle with this stunning conclusion to the two part series that began with "A LOVE THROUGH TIME". Dr. Douglas MacKendimen (30 year old son of Maggie and Alex - ALTT) is once again in Scotland for the annual clan gathering. This has been a family tradition, since his parents met there and fell in love with the help of the fates and a magical stone arch. Douglas has grown up on his parents tales, but regards them as nothing more than "bedtime stories".

Of late he's been troubled by two dreams, each involving the same mysterious woman, a woman like none other, a woman he's never met. One dream is frightening, the other erotic, and Douglas can't help but compare all others to the "woman of his dreams", he's waiting for something, what? he doesn't know.

The clan seer, the old woman Mairi who was instrumental in his parent's own journey of discovery, tells him that he must now meet his destiny, which will involve saving this woman, and being saved by her, and answering to the fates, which are not pleased with him.

He scoffs but a woman's cry of distress finds him dashing through the arch, to find her under attack by a rival clan. Without hesitation he acts to save her. At the very moment he recognizes her as the woman he has dreamed of, he's rendered unconscious by a severe blow to the head.

The woman is Caitlin, the 17 year old daughter of Moira, the visionary who had helped Maggie and Alex during their journey through time, and the smithy Pol. Caitlin too, has had the dreams, of this man, the man she knows she will love with all her heart. She is the clan healer, an herbalist, but she also has a "gift" - the ability to cure with her touch. The gift has its price for Caitlin assumes her patients' pain.

Douglas is awed by the care she has for her patients and the sacrifices she is willing to make for them. Why have the fates sent him here when any involvement will surely end in heartbreak when returns home as prophesied? He soon comes to realize that he has defied the fates by immersing himself in technology and shielding himself from his patients suffering. He's forgotten to care. He was conceived in this time through his parent's great love for each other, their very own lesson, and he realizes he's been sent back to the place where HIS soul began to find it once more. But in finding his soul will he lose his heart? What will become of him and of Caitlin when he is sent back home, having learned the lesson of the fates? Will these few short weeks be enough to last them a lifetime? Can the fates be defied?

I cried at the end of this story, but don't let that put you off, I loved both stories and the saga ends happily, never you fear. I highly recommend reading both books and there's a little surprise at the end of this one that I think you will enjoy.

I've also learned that there is the possibility of a straight historical featuring Anice, who appears in both stories, and Robert who succeeded his half brother Sandy as laird to the MacKendimen clan in the past time. It is to be hoped that this is truly so, as I think it is a story that needs to be told! Ms. Brisbin will give us a new tale with the September release of the Queen's Man. I'm greatly looking forward to reading more of this fine author's efforts. -- Leslie Tramposch Copyright© 2000 ~Paranormal Romance Reviews
I was looking forward to reading this book as I had just read A LOVE THROUGH TIME. Terri continues the story but this time it is Maggi and Alex's son Douglas who is sent back to the middle ages. It is great to read about the characters inteviening 20yrs, since Maggie and Alex went home. I was so glad that Anice had changed from the spoilt brat that she was in the first book. I felt really sorry to find out what had happened to her. The ending was not what I expected it to be, but it was still very good. I do hope Terri will continue with the series. It would be great if she could give the other characters a turn like Lynn Kurland did with the MacLeod's and the De Piaget's in STARDUST OF YESTERDAY and A DANCE THROUGH TIME to mention just a couple of her books.
I didn't even know there was a prequel to this book until I saw other reviews for this book. Now I will definitely have to go back and read the first. But, although I didn't read the first book, I was not lost while reading this one. The author was very good about putting some background into this one, the second book. I loved this book. I was held in suspense until the very end.

This is one of the few books I have read where it is the hero that goes into the past. And he learns things about himself while he is there. A physician who became caught up in the power, money, and prestige of being a doctor, he is made to realize why he became a doctor in the first place, while working side by side with the heroine, a healer. The romance develops nicely as both learn from the other. Definitely a reader! And now I think I will go back and read the first! :)
Terri's follow-up novel lives up to her first romance novel, A Love thru Time. I've said this before and I'll say it again, I don't usually read romances. But Terri's actually have a great plot and character development. I actually cared about these characters and wanted to see how they end up. Ok, now that I've got that off my chest, on to the review! Douglas MacKendimen, son of Maggie and Alex (from Terri's first book) is visiting Scotland for a family reunion. His parents have always told him the stories of when they went back in time and fell in love, but Doug always thought they were just stories until he finds himself in the same place about 20 years after his folks had been there. In the past, Doug meets Caitlin McInnis, literally the woman in his dreams. She's a healer, an actual one, as opposed to Doug who is a doctor. In the past, Doug finds his destiny. The only question is does he return a better person and leave the woman he loves behind or does he give up everything for Caitlin?
Propelled reluctantly back in time by his family's unpleasant penchant for time travel, a twentieth-century Scottish doctor falls for a fourteenth-century beauty with a compassionate heart. Original.
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< A Matter of Time (Time Passages) > < A Love Through Time (Time Passages) > < The Queen's Man (Time Passages) > < Once Forbidden (Highland Fling Romance) > < A Slip in Time > freaks

< The Time Machine (Classic Books on CD Collection) [UNABRIDGED} > < The Time Machine (Signet Classics) > < The Golden Compass, Deluxe 10th Anniversary Edition (His Dark Materials, Book 1) > < Poirot Investigates: Eleven Complete Mysteries > < The Old Man and the Sea > < Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1) > H. G. Wells

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A scientist at the turn of the century discovers a way to travel through time and into the distant future. Wells' imagination offers us a wonderful adventure story, but behind all of the action is a foreboding of where our society is ultimately headed. Three CDs.
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< Yesteryear's Love (Time Passages) > < Remember Love (Time Passages Series) > < Silver Tomorrows (Time Passages Romance) > < Yesterday and Forever (Time Passages Romance) > < Crystal Memories > < Only Time Will Tell (Time Passages Romance Series) > Janet Quinn

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Jove

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(Fun time travel romance)

Sarah Martin remains jumpy after being assaulted with fists and a knife by a lunatic named Jack. Her best friend LeeAnn takes her to a singles bar where she meets a seemingly nice fellow Josh. However, Jack arrives, grabs Sarah and tries to kill her for the second time. Sarah presses charges, with plenty of witnesses able to testify. That night, Jack makes bail and is released. Sarah flees Los Angeles heading to her great-grandmother's home in Wyoming.

Sarah arrives in Moose Creek where she enters a church and stares at a stained glass window. The next Sarah knows is she has awakened in 1870 where she meets Joshua Campbell, who insists she is his mail order bride. Sarah meets her ancestors, who like everyone else cannot understand Sarah's ways. However, that does not stop Joshua from falling in love with her. She reciprocates his feelings, but rejects his consistent marriage proposals because her time is one-hundred thirty years in the future.

YESTERYEAR'S LOVE is an interesting time travel romance that takes a modern person back to the wild west. The opening chapter in LA adds nothing to the tale. However, once Sarah lands in the nineteenth century, the story line turns enjoyable. Most charming is Sarah's actions and words causing much consternation among the Moose Creek residents. However, Sarah's own reactions seem off-kilter for someone who showed six years of interest in the era starting with her great grandmother's diary. Still Janet Quinn paints a warm tale that leaves readers thoroughly entertained.

Harriet Klausner
In a century-old diary, Sarah found a glimpse of 1870s Wyoming... and the man of her dreams.

Following the clues of her great-grandmother's diary, Sarah Martin went to Moose Creek, Wyoming. In the town church, she's strangely drawn to a stained glass window. She turns away--and finds herself over a hundred years in the past! It's 1870, and suddenly Sarah must adjust to frontier life and meet her great-grandparents. Then handsome Joshua Campbell arrives--and Sarah falls in love. But she can't interfere with the workings of the past--can she?

The newest in the successfulTime Passagesseries
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< Grand Design: The Hope Chest (Ballad Romances) > < At Midnight (Ballad Romances) > < Fire With Fire: Hope Chest (Ballad Romances) > < Stolen Hearts > < Enchantment: Hope Chest (Ballad Romances) > < Touched By Time (Zebra Regency Romance) > Karen Fox

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Zebra

customer 's review
(a very good book)

(I don't care what the 3 star reviewer this is a great read)

(Not too bad, but...)

(A whimsical escape -- Recommended)

Well I read this book in one afternoon. I really enjoyed it. I am used to time travel books but most tend to go back to Midevil England or Scotland and go back many hundreds of years. This one goes back to 1887 America. Our heroine is a modern day woman who is cleaning and restorying a portrait of Dimitri Karakov, a Prince who was killed at the Chesterfield, a posh hotel now in ruins. She is strangly drawn to the Chesterfield and the painting. She can actually feel Dimitri's warm skin when she touches it. She is so facinated by the Chesterfield that when she goes there and finds a bent name plate that belongs to the painting she is transported back in time to the Chesterfield of old. She is greeted like they knew she was coming and she ends up meeting Dimitri. He is to be king someday and must fight his growing attraction for her. She is there she believes to save his life and keeps trying to warn him. He also must keep his feelings of jealously hidden. His brother Alexi is quite fond of Cynda and since he is the second son can marry whom he likes.

Cynda isfired after Dimitri makes a complaint and he is sorry to have caused her a loss decides to have him paint his portrait, the portrait. They spend many hours at it and become closer and closer. He loves her spirit and her soul and she loves to make him smile and see him at ease.

Together they must overcome thier stations in life and unseen dangers to be together. Along the way we encounter others that may have traveled through time as well. This is the third book in the series and I am going to go back and read the first two and then await the fourth.
Maybe I really fell in love with this book because I have read the first 2 books in the hope chest series. But I really liked this a lot. I think how Dimitri acted when he was told that Cynda was from the future. He didn't believe her and he didn't want to hear stories about the future. That is realistic. If somebody came up to me and said they were from the future I wouldn't believe them either. This is a good book and is worth reading.
Overall the book was a good read. However, there were two major faults in the story that really stuck out like a sore thumb. Number one - when Cynda finally tells Dimitri she is from the future, not only does he not believe her at all, he doesn't even ask any questions about it even if just to test her. Even when they become lovers and all the way up until she gets shot with the bullet meant for him, he never believes her and it is not talked about. Give me a break. Even after she gets shot and he finally admits he believes her, the future is not talked about. This shows that the author has left out one huge factor of a human personality - curiosity, especially about something as out of this world as time travel. The second fault was that the main characters made love in detail so many times it was beginning to get boring. In most romances, the first time or two are detailed, which they need to be, and then after that, unless it is being used as main event part of the story, an author can summarize over it and not go into the whole thing again and again. However, the storyline kept you reading which saves this book from being 2 stars.
There's something winningly whimsical and marvelously magical about the premise of the power of a hope chest and equinoxes winging characters across time to find healing and love. A hope chest found in the historic Chesterfield, now undergoing renovation provides the focal point for this series. In Karen Fox's GRAND DESIGN, the third book of the Hope Chest miniseries, it's the nameplate from a portrait that carries frustrated artist Cynda Madison back in time to find her love.

Cynda Madison finds a strikingly handsome face beneath the years of filth in a portrait she's been commissioned to restore. Her own artwork lacks the sweeping passion apparent in every brush stroke, leaving her wishing for such bold zeal. When she's swept back in time, Cynda immediately recognizes Prince Dimitri Karakov from the portrait, finding the living man even sexier than the portrait. Her warnings of danger, however, fall on deaf ears when she tries to warn him that he's to die on December 12th.

Duty comes before pleasure for Prince Dimitri Karakov, even when it comes to Cynda. He wearies of the husband hunting vixens at the Chesterfield, where he's accompanying his grandmother while she takes in the healing waters. Cynda brings a welcome respite with her forthright, direct speech and lack of flirtatiousness. While she's much too forward for a servant, her intelligence and quick-wittedness makes her irresistible. When his younger brother shows interest in Cynda, Dimitri's unprepared for his overwhelming jealousy. Too bad he's been pledged since birth to a proper woman for a Prince.

Readers who enjoyed the previous two installments of this miniseries as well as fans of author Karen Fox's PRINCE OF CHARMING will thrill to this newest offering, GRAND DESIGN. As in PRINCE OF CHARMING, Fox brings her love of painting to GRAND DESIGN, when a portrait wings this heroine back in time. With her characteristic ingenuity, Fox paints a blend of the fantastic and the mundane, bringing enormous passion to her canvas in this portrait of love. Favorite secondary characters of this miniseries seamlessly connect the novel to the other parts of the miniseries, in addition to introducing two willful, strong-minded main characters. A playful, lighthearted read, GRAND DESIGN is perfect reading for an afternoon. Recommended.
THE PERFECT PRINCE CHARMING Restoring old paintings for Hope Springs' Historical Society isn't exactly what frustrated artist Cynda Madison wants from her career. And yet, she has no idea just how challenging her job will become when she begins work on the damaged portrait of handsome Prince Dimitri Karakov. Moved when she learns that he was tragically killed at The Chesterfield, Cynda decides to investigate his death. Then she finds the painting's tarnished nameplate in an old hope chest, and is instantly swept back in time to 1887, where she meets the prince himself--very much alive and disturbingly attractive. Cynda knows she must prevent Dimitri's death to return to her own life...but can she prevent herself from falling in love?
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< Grand Design: The Hope Chest (Ballad Romances) > < At Midnight (Ballad Romances) > < Fire With Fire: Hope Chest (Ballad Romances) > < Stolen Hearts > < Enchantment: Hope Chest (Ballad Romances) > freaks

< Timetwist: The Last Buccaneer > < The Desperado (Time Twist) > < Sam's World (Silhouette Intimate Moments, No 615) > < Sixpence Bride (Timeswept) > Lynn Erickson

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A TIMELESS TREASURE

Sucked through a whirlpool while diving for sunken treasure, Tess Bonney was transported back through time to find herself about to be sold to the highest bidder! Then dashing buccaneer Richard Neville came to her rescue, and the real adventure began.

A seventeenth-century pirate should be pillaging and philandering, yet Richard found himself saving Tess, allowing her to tend his wounded body and tortured soul. And though the rules of the high seas forbade him to give his heart to anyone, Tess was a siren he could not ignore.

But would their newfound passion stop the tides of time that were bound to beckon Tess home?
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(Ignore Cover&Title-This is one GREAT book!)