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< The Portal > < Bound Hearts: Shameless Embraces (Books 6 and 7) > < Bound Hearts: Submission&Seduction (Books 2 and 3) > < The Courage to Love (Brothers in Arms, Book 1) > < Alcandians: Alcandian Rage (Book 2) > < Blackmailed > Jaid Black,Treva Harte,Jordan Summers

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Warlord by Jaid Black

In the year 1052, Euan Donald rules the Highlands with an iron fist. When a rival clan chieftain fails to deliver his betrothed to him, Euan decides to take matters into his own hands and acquire a bride the old fashioned way—he'll go steal one...

Present day: Janet Duval is in Scotland on business. One minute she is leaving the local pub after having dinner and drinks with a friend and the next she finds herself being chased—1000 years in the past—by a heavily-muscled, grim-faced warrior hell-bent on possessing her.

Tears of Amun by Jordan Summers

Through the sands of time By the pharaoh's breath When the waters rise to highest depth Then the veils will thin For two worlds to see A fated love that must once again be

He who gazes upon the one wearing the Tears of Amun Shall go on to rule the kingdoms of Egypt

Charlotte Witherspoon is in love…with a picture.

When fate tosses her back in time and she finds herself face to face with the man who holds her heart, will she choose to stay, accepting the promise of passion glowing in his eyes or return to her own time? And what happens when destiny steps in to decide for her?

The answers lie within the Tears of Amun…

The Seduction of Sean Nolan by Treva Harte

Sean Nolan lay dying in a Civil War hospital with no regrets but one: he was about to die a virgin. Half delirious from the pain, the young soldier made one last wish, never expecting it to be fulfilled, never expecting a provocative older woman to grant him what he assumed was to be his last request...
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< The Portal > < Bound Hearts: Shameless Embraces (Books 6 and 7) > < Bound Hearts: Submission&Seduction (Books 2 and 3) > < The Courage to Love (Brothers in Arms, Book 1) > < Alcandians: Alcandian Rage (Book 2) > freaks

< Spenceworth Bride > < Sixpence Bride (Timeswept) > < Touched By Time (Zebra Regency Romance) > < A Blast to the Past > < Soul of a Highlander (The Daughters of the Glen, Book 3) > < Enchanted Time (Timeswept) > Virginia Farmer

price：~~$42.75~~
Love Spell

customer 's review
(A charming time travel)

(charming time travel romance)

When Nelwina desperately wishes to be anywhere but on the auction block as the unwilling participant during an 18th century wife sale she suddenly feels woozy and passes out, only to awaken in the 21st century. Passing through Ramsgil and playing the part of a tourist, Adam Warrick, the new Earl of Spenceworth finds himself the selected "buyer" of Jocelyn Tanner the "wife" up for auction. When he tosses the coin, and the "husband" catches it clumsily causing his purchased "wife" to get knocked unconscious, Adam feels obligated to take her to Spenceworth manor to make sure she doesn't suffer from a concussion.

Returning to her childhood home should have been a relief. However nothing is as it seems for Nelwina. Wanting to stay at Spenceworth, she dives into her new life as she tries to help restore Spenceworth to its previous grandeur. Adam, dealing with a run down estate that sadly lacks finances has little time for romance, then, when his mother unexpectedly shows up and takes his patient under wing, is grateful to have Jocelyn Tanner to keep her occupied. However, every time Jocelyn insists her name really is Nelwina Honeycutt, Adam chooses to continually rack it up to her head injury. But he has a hard time explaining the fact that knows more about Spenceworth manor and gardens than any other soul. For Nelwina, living two-hundred years in the future wasn't what she had expected, nor acquiring another woman's body. The only problem is, how can she adapt to this life and keep from falling in love with Adam, knowing that the real Jocelyn is trapped in the past? Yet how could she leave the love she always yearned for?

The long awaited sequel to SixPence Bride, Virginia Farmer weaves the charming tale of Nelwina Honeycutt. Some of the descriptions (for example of the loo) were humorous and I thought clever. With the changing of bodies between Jocelyn Tanner and Nelwina Honeycutt, this time travel is unique. Not only does Nelwina need to deal with learning new technologies totally foreign to her, she must come to terms with another woman's life. So join Adam and Nelwina on their bumpy little ride as they fall in love. Spenceworth Bride is a delightful tale.
In 1799 Ramsgil, England, Haslett Ham places his wife Nelwina on the auction block accusing her of thievery. She tries to talk him out of the humiliation that both will suffer, but he just grins at her like she is a worthless waste of his time. All Haslett can think of his ridding himself of this bastard daughter of an aristocrat. Nelwina wishes to be anywhere but in Ramsgil, but an old gypsy warns her to beware what you wish for.

Chicago based architect Adam Warrick has inherited Spenceworth and has flown to England to try to work the finances. He is taking part in one of the famous marriage auction reenactments and has drawn the role of buying the wife on sale. Adam buys Nelwina who everyone calls Jocelyn Tanner. As they fall in love, he wonders about her sanity and she questions whether he cherishes the Nelwina essence inside Jocelyn's body or the beautiful looking woman even as her American husband arrives to claim his wife.

SPENCEWORTH BRIDE, the sequel to the award winning SIXPENCE BRIDE, is a charming time travel romance. The story line grips the audience from the moment a displaced Nelwina lands in the twenty-first century. As she struggles to adapt (though perhaps a bit too easily) while a bewildered Adam wonders what is going on, fans gain a wonderful tale. Readers will enjoy Virginia Farmer's latest winner, as Nelwina's tale is an entertaining novel.

Harriet Klausner
When Nelwina Honeycutt was taken to the block to be sold--a common enough plight for a "troublesome" wife in eighteenth-century England--she hardly expected to better her situation. The illegitimate child of a nobleman, her commoner husband a drunken sot, she could be sold for a sixpence.

The man who bought her paid a full pound, though--and seemed blase about it! Stranger still, he called the sale a "re-enactment." Maybe it was that Nelwina had fallen and hit her head, but her clothes, her hair, her eyes: everything was unfamiliar. Two hundred years from the date she'd been born, only one thing was clear: Of the two men before her--Philip, who claimed to be her American husband; or Adam, the English lord of Spenceworth manor--all her heart wanted was to be Adam's one and only . . . Spenceworth Bride.
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< Spenceworth Bride > < Sixpence Bride (Timeswept) > < Touched By Time (Zebra Regency Romance) > < A Blast to the Past > < Soul of a Highlander (The Daughters of the Glen, Book 3) > freaks

< Moon Night > C. J. Winters

price：~~$12.95~~
Hard Shell Word Factory
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Time travel Romance: Anything can happen on a blind date under a full moon in the Ozarks. Including murder... While on a hayride, Keefe and Tara, an urban couple, are transported back to the same rural setting in 1884, into the bodies and identities of a farm couple more than twenty years their junior.

< Dominion > < The Selkie > < Night Visitor (Timeswept) > < Iona (Leisure Historical Romance) > < The Courier > < Divine Fire > Melanie Jackson

price：~~$5.99~~
Love Spell
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customer 's review
(a thought-inducing story, which will make one wonder about the possibility of reincarnation.)

(a haunting tale of love and redemption)

(very complex paranormal romance)

Courtesy of CK2S Kwips and Kritiques

Ms. Jackson has a winner with this novel. This is a thought-inducing story, which will make one wonder about the possibility of reincarnation.

Domitien had loved and lost, centuries ago, when his wife and unborn child were brutally slain. He was so heartbroken in that life that he vowed he would never again know love, no matter how many eternities or lives he experienced. What he doesn't realize is that after so many lives of refusing to acknowledge love, he was facing his last hope. If he did not let go of his ancient hatred and vow against love, his soul would be destroyed and he'd never have another chance.

The Creator has plans for Dom though, hoping that this time, in this life, he will finally create the perfect woman for Dom, with whom he could not help but fall in love. For He has taken all of the best characteristics of her past incarnations, those that most intrigued Dom, and combined them in to one woman, Laris, who he imagined even Dom couldn't resist. Laris was a great beauty, ethereally so, with red hair, luminous skin, and a voice even angels would long to have. But was that enough?

When first Laris and Dom meet, in her dreams, she is unable to resist his allure, and even Dom was drawn into the fantasies. When they meet in person for the first time, nothing could keep them apart. Until an ancient enemy enters their lives, the same enemy who has followed them through all their lives... Rychard. Rychard's goal is to destroy them both, as it has always been. The only way to escape for Laris and Dom is to cross through Death's door, literally, and then the real journey begins. They travel through many of Dom's past lives, The Creator's hope being that they will learn the lessons that have eluded them, and bring them together for all eternity. Will Dom learn once again to love? Or will Laris fail and the two of them be separated forever?

WOW! This book was absolutely incredible. Ms. Jackson has it all here - eternal love, ancient vows, truly evil enemies, adventures like one could never imagine. The reader will be drawn into the story from the very first page, the very first life Dom and Laris share, the one that sets the tone for all to follow. The emotion in this story is high, making one laugh, cry, and rage at Lady Fate, right alongside the main characters.

The passion between Laris and Dom is electrifying, as it had been from their first life together, and the emotion between them is incredibly powerful. They have a love unlike any other, even if Dom refuses to acknowledge it, swearing to not feel anything at all. One hopes and prays they will find the answers necessary to the end of their sad journey, bringing them together as they should be.

What's really interesting about this story is how Ms. Jackson weaves all the lives together seamlessly, through flashback type scenes at the beginning of each chapter. This is intriguing because it gives some glimpse of Dom (and Laris) and why they are in their present situation. There was one nice scene where the current life "bumped into" a past life and that added an extra dimension to the tale.

This is truly an emotionally packed story that will have the reader continuing just as fast as possible, to see what will happen next, and what depth of emotion will be reached in the different chapters. Ms. Jackson has written a story that packs quite a wallop for the reader, proving why she is becoming a force to be reckoned with in the romance genre. Way to go Ms. Jackson; if this reviewer was not already a lifelong fan, this book would have made her one.

© Kelley A. Hartsell, November 2003. All rights reserved.
Warning up front, this book nearly goes so slow for the first 100 pages you might give up. It is very well written, but the first 100 pages just does not capture the reader. It is so distant, does not invoke your emotions or make you care about the characters. BUT>>>>after page 100 things take a sharp turn and suddenly the book propels you along, and into the past lives of Dom and Laris, as the memories rise to the surface and pushes them to fight for their love or to lose it for all eternity.

Jackson is always a beautiful writer, but think the first part really hurt the book. But I recommend stick through and enjoying this very interesting, thought provoke work on the question of love, past lives and how much do you really love - can you put yourself second to that love....once it moves into high speed it is breathtaking.

The 4 stars is because of the slow start. Last two-thirds of the book would rate 5. Still one of the more original works in the genre and recommended!!

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
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< Dominion > < The Selkie > < Night Visitor (Timeswept) > < Iona (Leisure Historical Romance) > < The Courier > freaks

< Darby's Angel (Zebra Regency Romance) > Marcy Stewart

price：~~$10.77~~
Zebra

customer 's review
(Nice book but not very detailed in the time travelling part)

I enjoyed reading this book although I found some flaws in it. The future part of it is only mentioned briefly and the appearance of the present day man in regency times is too sudden. It would have been nicer, if the hero and his loneliness in his time had been described first along with him finding a picture of Darby in his late wife's family home. Some importat dialogues could have been longer, too.
Grieving over the loss of his wife and child, American actor Simon Garret journeys to his late wife's English estate, where he steps through a door in time that takes him to Regency England and into the life of Darby Brightings, a lovely lady threatened by unexpected peril. Original.

< Mackenzie's Magic > < Mackenzie'S Pleasure (Mackenzie) > < Mackenzies' Honor: Mackenzie's Pleasure\A Game Of Chance (Mackenzie) > < Christmas Kisses: Mackenzie's Magic/ Silver Bells/ A Wild West Christmas > < Mackenzie's Mission > < Mackenzie's Mountain > Debra Dier

price：~~$10.00~~
Leisure Books

customer 's review
(Hard to believe this is a Debra Dier book.)

(Almost a keeper, but not quite)

(interesting but mediocre time travel)

(Pleasant, but not one of her best)

(Don't Buy This Book!)

I could just say 'ditto' on the other reviews about the repetition of words and actions. I love Debra's time travel romances but not this one. Today I picked up this book, after trying to read it for over a week now, and said to myself "I'm going to finish this if it kills me". That right there should tell you that its not the best. On page 259, Jane decides that she won't waste another day denying herself this wonderful man even though he 'has an illness' and from that page to the end (page 360) the book becomes better. Do I recommend it? No.
"Mackenzie's Magic" is almost a keeper. It has a very nice twist on time travel, and the heroine is spunky and smart, and doesn't want to change. Mackenzie, while definitely rough around the edges, is a likable fellow and definite marriage material.

However, the reason I could not give it five stars is that the main characters kept having the same argument throughout most of the story. Mackenzie thought he accidentally traveled through time because Jane Everleigh was a witch; Jane thought Mackenzie was mentally ill and hadn't traveled through time at all. So you would get this in varying forms:

"Send me back, witch!"
"I'm not a witch! It's the illness!"

I thought that if I heard "It's the illness" one more time, I would scream. I do realize Jane was mechanically repeating the same line every time the subject of time travel came up so she would not have to deal with the reality of it. It is a valid reaction to something so off the wall happening -- but nonetheless terribly, terribly annoying after you've read it about 25 times before.

Truly, overall the book is really great. It is a nice time travel, with more realism than expected, a strong heroine and a hero you don't want to sock in the eye. If you can handle the constant "witch, illness" arguments, it is definitely worth reading.
Jane was too practical to believe in wishin on a star but after she was forced to marry Dominic Stanbridge the most notorious rake in London, she would try jsut about anything. Steeling herself against his wiles, she promised to thwart his attempts at seduction. Yet nothing could have prepared her for her husband's abrupt about face the morning after the wedding. Suddenly the city's fashion plate was running about clad in only his silk robe, speaking in a strange Scottish accent and claiming to have never seen a fork! Jane couldn't possibly believe what he said; that he was Colin MacKenzie, a Scottish earl who had lived 300 years ago. Nor could she believe the spine tingling attraction she felt for the man she had sworn to hate.
First of all, let me say that I am definitely a Debra Dier fan, but this is not one of her best books. It's a pleasant diversion, and I did enjoy it, although I must agree with some of the other reviewers that the repeated scenes of "I am not a witch" and "I know who I am" did get irritating. If you want to see how truly "magical" Debra Dier can be, read _Beyond Forever_...it's a great book and a fresh twist on the time-travel plotline.
I must say I was disappointed. I had expected- from the title, quite obviously- for the hero (Colin MacKenzie) to possess magical powers of some sort. I was wrong- I'll tell you now: there is so little magic in this story that I would hardly consider this to be in the "magical Romance" category.

Set in the late 1800's, Jane (i.e. Plain Jane- not a very creative name) is married to a rich, attractive scoundrel of a husband (typical) and wishes upon a star for someone else- anyone else. Her wish is granted (of course) and she's landed with Colin, who just happens to be closer to her own age and an exact replica of her husband, but from the 1500's. Conveniently, her husband got a bump on the head right before Colin was put into his body.

One would think a Scottish barbarian (how romantic. :P) would show Jane her inner passions, but, no. He thinks she's a witch who brought him there for sex; and she thinks he's crazy.

There's a lot of weird descriptions, as well: she can feel his legs brush against her skirt; somehow, her "lemony scent" "washes" over him if she's in the same room, and Debra Dier repeats the same catchy phrase at least twice within the same page, sometimes it's just an interesting word used twice in the same paragraph.

Also, most of the story happens in the span of 2 days- that's an entire entirely repetitive book with scenes you THINK will become interesting, but Jane chickens out or Colin asks her (AGAIN) to remove the spell. I'm telling you, I could not fall in love with this guy.

He's questioning his sanity, she's questioning her beliefs and maybe, just MAYBE they'll find common ground. (Don't take that as a read-the-book-to-find-out line; save yourself the [money] and buy something more filling- like a bag of rice cakes.)
Rerations
< Mackenzie's Magic > < Mackenzie'S Pleasure (Mackenzie) > < Mackenzies' Honor: Mackenzie's Pleasure\A Game Of Chance (Mackenzie) > < Christmas Kisses: Mackenzie's Magic/ Silver Bells/ A Wild West Christmas > < Mackenzie's Mission > freaks

< The Moonstone (Time Passages Romance Series) > < The Last Highlander (Time Passages Romance Series , No 13) > < A Once and Future Love (Time Passages Series , No 18) > < My Lady in Time (Time Passages Romance) > < A Knight to Cherish (Time Passages Romance Series) > < Only Time Will Tell (Time Passages Romance Series) > Claire Cross

price：~~$26.86~~
Jove

customer 's review
(Read the last Highlander by Claire Cross)

(Don't waste your time and money!)

(Boring dialogue...)

(Entertaining time travel romance)

This book starts out okay but its both characters are from the past which doesn't work.
As a fan of time-travel books I'm wondering why I'm even giving this one star. There was no substance to the story just lots of fluf. I'm sorry, but there is no way someone arrives in the 20th Century from the 14th Century and takes everything in stride as the two main characters did in this story. How does Viviene get a paycheck without a SS#? AND she and Niall can read modern-day English with no trouble? It wasn't very realistic. Also, I don't like stories that make sure EVERYONE in the story has found a love in the last 5 pages!
This story contained some of the most boring and dumbest narration. It bored me and I skipped from the begining to the end and got the full sense of the story. Her other books were better.
In 1390 Britain, Sir Niall of Malloy loathes escorting prisoners to their death, but loathes it even more when a female requires his convoy, which is his present task. He accompanies Viviane to certain death for witchery. Viviane asks him to take her to see the Archbishop of Cantlecroft, but he cannot being a lowly dungeon guard. Finally, realizing her plight, Viviane wishes upon her father's stone to be as far away from where she is as possible. In a flash, she vanishes leaving behind the moonstone.

The Archbishop charges Niall to complete his duty. Before leaving, Niall says good-bye to his sister and her children. Meanwhile Viviane lands in 1999 where a local resident Monty Sullivan adopts her. Niall uses the moonstone and follows her into the late twentieth century. Viviane decides that Niall his her hero and savior. Soon Niall and Viviane fall in love, but he swore allegiance to a fourteenth century archbishop. Niall knows if he takes his beloved Viviane back home, she dies. If he fails to return with her, the honor he lived for would crumble and slowly kill him instead.

MOONSTONE is a fabulous time travel romance that will leave no doubt as to the standing of Claire Cross among sub-genre fans. Using magic to propel the fast-paced story line forward (and back), sub-genre fans and fantasy readers will gain much pleasure from the superb novel. Readers will embrace the intelligent characters. Their reactions to time displacement feel genuine as the Medieval travelers struggle with modern times and a twentieth century individual seems overwhelmed with the fourteenth century. The response of the cast turn MOONSTONE into a necessary read for anyone who enjoys an entertaining story.

Harriet Klausner
Setting: England, 1390, and contemporary British Columbia
Sensuality: 7

In 1390 England, Viviane is imprisoned for practicing witchcraft. Confident that the archbishop will believe her denial, she is stunned when she's led to the executioner without a hearing. Deeply disturbed by the young woman's fate, Sir Niall of Mallory grants Viviane's wish to hold her father's moonstone one last time. To his shock, the beautiful young woman disappears in a flash of bright light, leaving nothing but the moonstone behind.

Viviane finds herself on an island in British Columbia in 1999--but she believes that she's been transported to the legendary Avalon. Meanwhile, back in 1390, Niall swears to do his duty and recover Viviane. While retracing her actions, he triggers the moonstone and follows her across time. Unfortunately for Niall, Viviane happens to be onboard a boat and he lands in the water, his chain mail weighting him like an anchor. Rescued in the nick of time, Niall soon finds himself falling in love with Viviane, who believes that he's her knight in shining armor. The two lovers have a difficult path to happiness, however, for the evil archbishop has plans for them back in 1390 and they'll have to foil a dastardly plot and travel across time more than once in their struggle to live happily ever after.--Lois Faye Dyer
Rerations
< The Moonstone (Time Passages Romance Series) > < The Last Highlander (Time Passages Romance Series , No 13) > < A Once and Future Love (Time Passages Series , No 18) > < My Lady in Time (Time Passages Romance) > < A Knight to Cherish (Time Passages Romance Series) > freaks

< Silent Night: The Remarkable Christmas Truce of 1914 > Stanley Weintraub

price：~~$28.05~~
Thorndike Press

Bringing together one of the most unlikely and touching events of World War I, this book tells the story of Chritmas Eve 1914 when men on both sides left their trenches, laid down their arms and joined a spontaneous celebration with their new friends, the enemy.

< The Forever Bride (Timeswept) > < Timeswept Brides > < The Changeling Bride (Timeswept) > < There And Now (Bestselling Author Collection) (Bestselling Author Collection) > < The Falcon's Bride > < When I Fall in Love > Evelyn Rogers

price：~~$10.00~~
Leisure Books

customer 's review
(Started out good but then became boring.)

I liked the start of this book. The idea of the "Forever Bride" story is very beautiful and heart warming. I thought the plot of this story that the modern woman, Meagan, goes to Scotland to get married in an old church where the "Forever Bride" tale is said to have taken place, was unique. There she is suddenly flung back in time and ends up marrying, not her modern day fiance, but Robert Cameron, the Laird of Thistledown Castle. Robert has never met his bride to be so is shocked to see that she is not as young as he thought her to be, nor as innocent. He can't deny that he is attracted to her and tries to convince her that she is just as attracted to him. He soon realizes that she is not his real bride and together they set out to find the missing bride. The story is very good for a while and really held my interest but then it started to drag. I put this book down several times and it took days to finish it. I think the ideas of the book were good but not really brought to life. The characters were a bit lacking also.
I wish this had been a better book.
Loving a romantic Scottish fairy tale so much that she insists upon getting married in Scotland, Meagan Butler is transported back in time and finds herself re-creating the events of the story of her dreams. Original.
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< The Forever Bride (Timeswept) > < Timeswept Brides > < The Changeling Bride (Timeswept) > < There And Now (Bestselling Author Collection) (Bestselling Author Collection) > < The Falcon's Bride > freaks

< The Scottish Rose > < Circle of the Lily > < My Lady Caroline > < Touched By Time (Zebra Regency Romance) > < Master of the Highlands (Berkley Sensation) > < Tumbling Through Time > Jill Jones

price：~~$10.00~~
St. Martin's Paperbacks

customer 's review
(Enjoyable Historical Novel)

(Hilarious trashy historical romance novel)

(What a waste of time!)

(Thrilling and Romantic)

(In the Defense of a Tragic Queen)

I enjoyed The Scottish Rose as much as Jill Jones' other historical novels. I recommend it to you.
I read these kinds of books purely for their trashy entertainment value, and boy was this ever entertaining!

The book has some genuinely good points - it's an intriguing plot including time-travel and magic and a sweet sort of love story. It's also an interesting account of history and (living in the part of Scotland where this book takes place, at the moment) it does a good job of evoking the atmosphere of the Scottish Northeast's surroundings.

But it's also completely cheesy and unbelievable....it was great! Typical of all these sorts of books, the heroine is spunky to the point of annoyance and laboring under her own weird psychological issues the whooooole way through the book till you want to slap her silly and make her snap out of it already. There's nothing terribly special about the characters - it's a trashy romance novel, she's a pretty but headstrong ditz, who's always getting herself into a bind and then relies on her beefcake of a love interest to save her, only to snap at him for thinking she's "weak".........

Oh dear. It's hokey, but it's a great ride, and I read the thing in one night. Couldn't put it down. So although I reserve 5 stars for Nobel-prize sort of writing, for its genre, The Scottish Rose is a fun, atmospheric, page-turning romp.
This book was awful. My standards are pretty high after reading Diana Gabaldon's series. The characters were two-dimensional and I had a hard time even caring about what happened to them. The plot was predictable and boring. What a waste of time!!
I agree w/ the reviewer who thinks this novel deserves to be a film. The writing was rich, the plot was exciting, and the love story was romantic. This is one of the best time-travel novels I have read--fantastic, yet realistic. Very enjoyable.
What a job well done by an emerging new writer! Jill Jones not only captivated thousands of avid readers just like me but also provided a very interesting tapestry of a time when Scotland is besieged by the Puritan leader, Oliver Cromwell. Miss Jones actually "turned back the hands of time" when she showed the readers how is it like to live in a world chiefly governed by ignorance. Imagine a boy of ten such as Pauley who don't even know how to speak accused of being the "bairn" of a witch, and modern-day thrill seekers being transported back in time through the Ladysgate burned alive! What a nice place to be! But most of all, aside from the "timeless fairy-tale love stroy" of Duncan and Taylor (Mrs. Janet Fraser), lies a "truth" somewhat rejected by almost everyone reading the pages of history: the innocence of Mary, Queen of Scots. The story is not much about Greta's stupidity, Robert Gordon's "thievery", the Ogilvies' loyalty, and Lady Keith's long lost relative but rather on how history for so long looked down on a woman who's purely a victim of treachery and odd circumstances sorrounding her tragic life. "Queen Mary is innocent!", that is the message of the fabled chalice. A must-read book of a very talented writer!

It began with a letter...that leads to a passion and adventure beyond her dreams...

"I have taken measures to hide Mary's rose chalice...I fear that all in the castle may die for hiding it, but it is our duty to protect this sacred emblem of Scotland."
--Letter written in 1651

Taylor Kincaid hosts a top-rated television series that debunks everything supernatural. So when she finds herself on the Scottish coast-- to claim an out-of-the-blue inheritance and ancient letters telling of royal gold-- she's prepared to explode the local legend: an archway made of stone through which young women disappear. Until a stormy sea sweeps her through the Ladysgate-- and with her, handsome, rugged sea captain Duncan Fraser.

Beyond it lies the Scotland of 1651. It is the land of Taylor's heirloom letters and Mary Queen of Scots' fabled jeweled chalice, The Scottish Rose, emblem of peace. Together Taylor and Duncan must search for it amid the passions and perils of history...or, in a desperate bid to recross the centuries, risk losing each other and the love they've found beyond the gates of time.

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