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< Once upon a Kiss (Magical Love) > < The Moonstone (Time Passages Romance Series) > < The Last Highlander (Time Passages Romance Series , No 13) > < Love Potion #9 (Magical Love Series) > < Heaven's Time (Time Passages Series , No 12) > < Lover Avenged (Black Dagger Brotherhood, Book 7) > Claire Cross

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Jove

customer 's review
(New Agey Romance: Starts off well, but falls flat)

(WONDERFUL)

(Not bad in a fairy tale sort of way)

(Simple)

(A good idea, with poor execution)

Aurelia is a pictish princess. (If there is such a thing), when a mystic prophecy causes her to awaken in the future, she falls in love with the owner of her castle even though she believes him to be the man who killed her brother. Baird Beauforte (terribly name), is opening a hotel bed and breakfast, and during renovations stumbles across Aurelia's crypt. When he wakens her with a kiss, she becomes his guest at the castle.

Despite myself, I liked this book, at least the first part. Aurelia was an endearing character despite the phoney new-age mystic fluff added to pad the plot. I particularly enjoyed her 'exploration' of the outside world, and the character of Julian.

Things I didn't like? Aurelia's age isn't mentioned anywhere in the plot. I have difficulty getting into romances if I don't know the basics of the main characters. Also, I liked the character of Marissa. I wished she and Aurelia could have been friends rather than fighting over Baird. Number 1 peeve: Baird! This character had zero personality, and the romance between him and Aurelia was unbelievable. Aurelia was too immature and naive for me to consider the romance with a modern man credible (or satisfying). Finally: Julian. The romance between him and Marissa seemed an afterthought. The author would've given SOME indication these characters were attracted to each other early on.

Started off 4 stars, but ended up being merely an average novel with some good points.
I liked this book,it had a mixture of humor ,romance and fantasy.If you are looking for a sleeping beauty, prince charming and ofcourse a villain then this is the book.I truly enjoyed reading it.
Aurelia and Baird's story is a light fairy tale type story, which works, if you like this sort of writing/book. This Sleeping Beauty theme tries to be successful by using the juxtaposition of two people separated by1200 years. Our heroine falls asleep after pricking her thumb and after a 1200 year break (which is later explained), our prince charming finally awakens our princess. Everything revolves around legends, prophecies and reincarnation, so if you do not like these explanations, or feel a book gets stale when everything has been prophesized, you will not find this plot a good one to read.

I liked the fact that Aurelia assumes that she had just awoken from a nap and judges everything that happens around her by her 9th century beliefs. She looks for her father, whom she believes is prisoner of her enemy, Bard (Ms. Cross uses a slight change spelling on our hero and enemy's name) and explains all of the changes she sees by Bard's sorcery. In a society that had many conquerors and blended many different religious beliefs (Norse, Christian, Celtic and "pagan"), weird happenings could have easily been explained by magic, sorcery or witchcraft. She holds everyone in the modern world to the customs of the 800's, and it is interesting to see how she interprets things. Baird now owns the castle (which Aurelia assumes he got as Bard by conquering it, though he bought it in modern times to build a hotel) so when he talks to his interior designer, Aurelia assumes that "king" Baird is lavishing his largesse on his layman. Why else would a woman dress like Marissa and be allowed to spend the kings money so freely? There are many more such "misunderstandings" and I think that most of them are well done. Like others though, my biggest criticism of the book is that it took Aurelia SO long to figure out what happened, especially since she knew the prophecy.

I am not so sure I liked the fact that our key players had selective memories, or some remembered all of the past and others did not. Except for ease of writing the plot, there seemed to be no explanation why our villain would remember his past lives and our hero would not, putting him at a distinct disadvantage. Baird could also have been a stronger character all around. For a savvy, cutthroat businessman, he did not come across that way. Probably not the best book I have ever read, but by far not the worst either.
I hate to trash a book but I agree with the other readers who found it uninteresting. There's far better books to read.
I tried to approach this book with an open mind. Page after page, I kept pushing foward...but I finally gave up.

Maybe I'll pick this book up again, when there aren't better books around to read and I've got time to waste.

The idea for the book is good. I like fairy tales and fantasy. However, the fact that Aurelia still believes that she's living in the past by chapter 11 is simply too trying. It's both frusterating and dull when she rushes about to find a father who died (maybe of natural causes) long, long ago.

Perhaps it might be amusing to some, the confusion and the misunderstandings that lead to Aurelia's continued belief that she is in a.d. 800. However, I couldn't stand the fact that every problem she perceives is, well, wrong and an illusion. It would have been so much nicer had she realized that she'd woken up in the 20th century, and dealt with all of the problems and mysteries from that point forward, from that perception and angle...rather than from a delusion.

For instance, she's convinced that the hero, Baird, is actually the invading evil villain Bard...who was attacking her home when the sleeping enchantment encased her.

So she's thinking that her father, the king, has been captured and tortured or killed...and that Baird, who she thinks is Bard, is responsible. Somehow, while a sleeping enchantment is obviously make-believe, the terrible and often silly gordian tangles of logic that Claire indulges to keep Aurelia thinking she's in the past is simply way over the top.

Maybe I'm being too harsh. Maybe I gave up on this book too soon. Maybe I'll pick it up someday and give it another try. In the meantime, I'm going to spend my time on more worthwhile books.
For over a thousand years the brambles grew over the ruins of Dunhelm Castle.

Until an American hotelier decided to clear away the thorny brush--and found a mysterious sleeping beauty...
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< Once upon a Kiss (Magical Love) > < The Moonstone (Time Passages Romance Series) > < The Last Highlander (Time Passages Romance Series , No 13) > < Love Potion #9 (Magical Love Series) > < Heaven's Time (Time Passages Series , No 12) > freaks

< The Inscription (Sonnet Books) > < The Quest (Sonnet Books) > < The Enchantment (Sonnet Books) > < My Secret Protector > < Dark Rival (The Masters of Time, Book 2) > < To Charm A Knight (Zebra Historical Romance) > Pam Binder

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Pocket

customer 's review
(Wish there was a sequel)

(Flat characters, no plot - skip this one.)

(An interesting tale...)

(A romance that could have had potential...)

(Good Read)

I wish Pam Binder had given us a sequel, a series... I want to see these immortal highlanders MORE!

An incredibly original idea, published BEFORE the recent surge of fantasy fiction the story rushes through the romance and explanations but allows for a few sweet moments.

I only gave it 4 stars because I want more. There were things and characters left hanging- BUT this is one that I read at a library in college and spent weeks tracking down later because I couldn't get the story out of my head.
Scottish Highlands. Time travel. Immortality. Sounded like just the thing for a long flight home for the holidays, right?

Nope. Skip this one, folks.

There were several problems with logic and continuity - a character knows something in one scene that they have no way of knowing, then have forgotten they knew it in the next chapter; this gets to be disruptive for the attentive reader.

Major plot points were skipped completely (the room with the potions and the star maps, for example. Why make such a big deal out of this if they were never to be seen again?).

What was the point, also, of Marcail and O'Donnell? Neither character was particularly well-drawn or even all that likable, so it really didn't matter to the reader whether or not they ever decided to join.

Many of the scenes were short - 3 or 4 paragraphs or no more than a page - but they would jump characters and even jump 2 or 3 days from the previous scene. Unfortunately, in jumping over the days, the author missed telling big chunks of story. Considering that the time travel portion only covered 28 days to begin with, she didn't have the luxury of skipping days.

Pass this one up. If you want immortality and the Scottish Highlands, watch "Highlander" (the first movie). If you want time travel and the Scottish Highlands, read Diana Gabaldon's "Outlander."

I definitely will not read more by this author.
Having first met the author at a trade show in the Pacific Northwest, I decided to give her book a try (even though I do not generally read romances). The time-travel aspect of the story is well handled (our heroine is pulled back into Scotland in the mid-1500's), and the characters are very well developed.

I have to confess that the opening of the story is a bit rough for me. Everything that happened seemed contrived in order to get us to a certain point. About a third of the way into the novel, enough is revealed to make it clear why, exactly, events unfolded as they did in the beginning, and it all works (both dramatically and on the believability scale).

The author has a good sense of pacing, and also does a decent job of "planting the evidence" in earlier scenes before employing it in later scenes. The story unfolds logically and neatly, without being overly pat.

I cannot compare this novel to too many other romances, as it's not generally my genre of choice, but I'd have to agree with other reviewers that, if romance is the draw (and sex is a part of romance), then it does seem to take a while to finally get to the action. And, unlike Hedge of Thorns by Sally Ash (also published by Goodfellow Press), the sex seems somehow irrelevant to the romance.

All that being said, though, the story of a woman out of time and a clan of immortals is very well drawn. I recommend this book as a fine first novel.
I agree this book started out with a great idea for romance and an interesting plot... but just as you would get into an aspect of the plot she was writing it would suddenly stop... as if to leave it with out explanation or appropriate detail... this sometimes made it hard to follow the plot or hold your attention...Lachlan's physical description was lacking although his personal character was not... and the romance end of this really doesn't take off until 2/3rds through the book and when it does it totally surprises you and the moment is brief and lacking in description... so I put that aside to just follow the idea of this plot on immortality... but that too fizzeled out in the end with a far too easy of a closing to what was suppose to be some kind of climax... and the final frustration is in the end she doesn't resolve all the conflicts Amber had with Lachlan about his immortality... I reread the end three times to see if I missed something... and I didn't... the author did....how completely frustrating!
The story was good, I could not put it down. But towards the ending it kind off looses a little of the magic. The ending needed more a little dissapointed towards the end.

UNDER THE MIST-SHROUDED WATERS OF A SCOTTISH LOCH, AN IMMORTAL WARRIOR FINDS THE WOMAN OF HIS DREAMS -- AND A LOVE THAT DEFIES THE AGES.

In a stunning debut novel, Pain Binder evokes the Highland mysteries of Loch Ness to create a shimmering love story that crosses the boundaries of time.

Scotland, 1566: The immortal clan MacAlpin has lived for hundreds of years in their ancestral lands beside Loch Ness. When handsome warrior laird Lachlan MacAlpin rescues a woman from the loch's depths, he knows she is the lover that has haunted his dreams -- his one true love foretold by an ancient prophecy.

Amber McPhee, an American vacationing in Scotland, awakens in Urquhart Castle with no recollection of how she got there -- and slowly comes to realize that she has fallen more than four hundred years into the past. She is fascinated by the fierce but gentle Lachlan -- and finds herself quickly entwined in his world and his heart. Their eternal bond has shattered the barriers of time...but can they triumph over a deadly foe with whom Lachlan must do battle? Or will the legend's dark prophecy come true?
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< The Inscription (Sonnet Books) > < The Quest (Sonnet Books) > < The Enchantment (Sonnet Books) > < My Secret Protector > < Dark Rival (The Masters of Time, Book 2) > freaks

< Promises from the Past > Victoria Bruce

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Love Spell

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(Couldn't get into this...)

From the back cover:

Her father smelled of the sea...

Her mother smelled of violets...

A faint scent, a distant memory, and an age-old hurt weren't much to go on, but lovely Maggie Westshire had no other recollections of her missing father. Now she found herself on a painful quest for answers--a journey that began in Hot Springs, Arkansas, and led her back through the years, into the strong arms of Shea Younger. His was a different era, a time of danger and excitement, and he promised Maggie a passion like none she had every known, and while she was determined, against all odds, to continue her search for her father, Maggie didn't know how much longer she could resist Shea's considerable charms, or the sweet ecstasy she found in his timeless embrace.

And my review:

What can I say? I tried to get into this, but couldn't manage to get past the first 20 pages. My mind kept wandering, and I had to keep forcing my attention back to the book. That shouldn't happen. In fact, I'm usually one of those readers who loses track of the real world while reading (people sometimes have to yell at me five times before I hear them). When a book can't keep interest, it isn't worth the work. I skimmed ahead, but still the book didn't get any better.

This book seemed like a knock-off of Gabaldon's OUTLANDER. After all, PROMISES FROM THE PAST was published four years after OUTLANDER, so one might wonder. (Of course, Victoria Bruce might never even have heard of OUTLANDER, so maybe she really did come up with the idea on her own.) Like OUTLANDER, we again have a book, written in the first person (argh!), where a woman with a husband (whon she loves, but not to distraction) travels back in time and falls in love with a splendidly handsome, dangerous man. Her new love is fueled by lust, and is superior to her old love, which was more about companionship.....yadda, yadda, yadda. If I wanted to read this story, I'd just read OUTLANDER again.

I can't really say I can recommend this book to anyone. Those who love OUTLANDER won't want to read a pale knock-off of the original. Those who hated OUTLANDER won't want to read a rehashing of the same kind of idea. So I suggest that you leave this one on the shelf and try something else.
Searching for her missing father with nothing more than a few vague memories to guide her, Maggie Westshire is swept into the past, where she meets the handsome Shea Younger, who tempts her to abandon her quest.

< Sands of Destiny > < Savannah Scarlett > < Tainted Lilies > Becky Lee Weyrich

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Zebra

customer 's review
(Love Everlasting)

(This One Is Going In The Book Bag !)

This book takes you on a love roller coaster. It starts with a vacation that turns into the best adventure ever noted. Olympia, Pia Bird, desperately wants a piece of rock that is believed to be chipped from the great Alexander the Great. Ironically, the peddler that introduced the beautiful stone to Pia Bird has sold it by the time she found her father, to a handsome young man with golden locks named Darius. The golden haired hunk gives Pia a piece of tbe stone and from there the book takes you on an emotional roller coaster into the life of Cleopatra, The Great Julius Caesar, Mark Antony, Darius and Olympia. This book is filled with on the edge writing. The author exhibits a strong story into tbe life of Cleopatra and how she loved. Cleopatra exudes strength, courage and wisdom. Through this power, Olympia learns what it is to love. I enjoyed the way the book takes you back and forth from current day to noted history. I enjoyed the innocence in both Olympia and Darius. This is a fabulous book if you love on the edge fiction.
As a reader of previous titles by this author, I was sorely disappointed with the direction this book took. I think M.S. Weyrich decided to try her hand at erotisism. She surely missed her mark and the point with this book!She starts with a shared ancient artifact with mystical powers, a handsome egyptian sailor, reincarnation and time travel. It all goes downhill from there. As a faithful Weyrich reader I suffered through the whole book never giving up hope that the story would gain some substance.But "no such luck". Instead M.S. Weyrich subjects the reader to love scenes that could be called nothing less than obscene. She depicts the soul of the main character Pia, as inhabiting the body of Cleopatra while Cleopatra makes love to their shared lover Darius. What is really hard to swallow is that because Pia is writing a book about Cleopatra she goes along for the ride as an observer/participant, when Darius and Cleopatra make love. M.S. Weyrich then concentrates on the story of Cleopatra with the Pia's entity as the observer.Than get this...Pia and Darius try to sneak time together behind Cleo's back when she is asleep with Pia still in her body. In my opinion this book was not very well thought out. As soon as Cleopatra gets bitten by the infamous asp the author rushes to conclude the story with a very poor ending I might add.
Swept back in time to ancient Greece by a mysterious miniature crystal pyramid, Pia Byrd comes face to face with the magnificent Darius and discovers a true love that spans the ages. Original.
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< Sands of Destiny > < Savannah Scarlett > freaks

< Night Lace > < Everything in Its Time (Time Passages) > < A Knight in Shining Armor > < A Slip in Time > < A Double-Edged Blade (Timeswept) > < Forever His > Emma Merrit

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Zebra

customer 's review
(A must for time-travel/magic/castles/mystery/romance lovers.)

Night Lace was the first romance book I ever picked up, not to mention the first time travel romance. It opened a whole new world for me. Years later I can't get enough and own hundreds of wonderful romances by various authors, but Emma Merritt started it all for me. Thanks to this captivating story and amazing author I have found a home and an overwhelming joy in romance novels. Please Emma - MORE, MORE, MORE !!!!
In search of a cure for a new virus, Dr. Beth Balfour journeys to Scotland to search for a cure in a mysterious ancient text, only to find herself tumbling through a rift in time and into the arms of medieval Highlander Lawren mac Galloway. Original.
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< Night Lace > < Everything in Its Time (Time Passages) > < A Knight in Shining Armor > < A Slip in Time > < A Double-Edged Blade (Timeswept) > freaks

< Timeless Wish (Time Passages Romance) > < Waiting for Yesterday > < Yesteryear's Love > < Echoes of Tomorrow (Time Passages Romance) > < River of Dreams (Time Passages Romance Series) > < Yesterday and Forever (Time Passages Romance) > Barbara Sheridan

price：~~$40.00~~
Jove

customer 's review
(Timeless Wish)

(Sensuous and interesting time travel)

(this book left alot to be desired.)

(Timeless Wish)

(Too light for me.)

In present day New York, Interior Designer Laura Bennett agrees to go to Oklahoma and help her friends Galen and Jake Hillhouse redesign their ancestral home.

Laura examines a photograph album of Galen's that contains a picture of Sheriff Corby Hillhouse, who lived in the late 1800s. She is instantly intrigued by the man, although she can't say why.

Corby Hillhouse has had a hard life. His first wife died, and he believes he could've prevented it. Then his second wife died in childbirth. On New Year's Eve in 1898 he wishes for a woman that his "love won't kill."

The next day he finds Laura passed out in the field. Laura doesn't know why, or how, she's been transported back to 1898. But she does know that she is falling in love with Corby, and with his young daughter, Sabrina.

Laura takes a job as housekeeper/nanny for Corby and the two of them go through a series of misunderstandings on their way to a relationship. They also have to fight off the father of Corby's first wife, who thinks Corby is responsible for his daughter's death.

Timeless Wish by Barbara Sheridan is a wonderfully touching love story that transcends time. I had hours of fun watching Laura and Corby as they worked to discover their feelings for each other. And I loved watching Laura, who had problems in her own past, help Corby get over his demons.

The supporting characters in this book are also fascinating, including a former female reporter who rode over the plains in search of news.

Readers who enjoy time travel will love Timeless Wish.

Amelia
reviewed for Joyfully Reviewed
The time travel was handled so well in this story. Laura kept fading in and out of 1998 to the year 1898 at very dramatic times after a wish upon a star. Both hero and heroine were tormented souls who found each other despite being born a century apart. I liked how Corby did not believe Laura immediately when she spoke about 1998. It took him a long time to trust Laura and made their love all the more precious. Corby's relatives, both during 1898 and the ones Laura knew in 1998 were out of the ordinary. Corby was shown as very human and even had a side one couldn't like very well. Laura too had her own foibles. The path of love is not easy. You will cheer for a happy ending and will not be disappointed. The sexual tension was wonderful and the love scenes were sensuous. If you are a time travel fan, you will love this one.

i like a book that goes back in time. everytime she bumped her head, she switched centuries. it got really annoying because everytime it got interested, she switched centuries!! i really didn't like it.
The story held my interest but I was dissapointed that there weren't more references to the future. It always makes me laugh when the people can't figure out how to do things. It seemed that Laura already knew how to do everything and being 100 years in the past was no sweat. That wasn't real believable.
I love time travel romances so I bought the book after reading the great reviews but I thought it had a slow and simple beginning which read like an Americana romance and not a time travel. I wasn't caught up in their story. Maybe there should have been more character development so I would have kept reading.
While redecorating her friend's house, Laura Bennett travels 100 years back in time to 1898 Oklahoma--where she meets the man of her dreams. A man she thought she would only ever see in her friend's family photos.
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< Timeless Wish (Time Passages Romance) > < Waiting for Yesterday > < Yesteryear's Love > < Echoes of Tomorrow (Time Passages Romance) > < River of Dreams (Time Passages Romance Series) > freaks

< Queen of the Sun (Timeswept) > < Lady of Fire (Timeswept) > < Maiden of the Winds > < Mistress of the Waters (Love Spell) > < Daughter Of Gold > < Spirit of the Mist > Janeen O'Kerry

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Love Spell
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customer 's review
(Disappointing at best. An eyeroller for sure!)

(enjoyable read!)

(First Book I Actually Didn't Finish Reading)

(good premise, heroine needs a good slap)

I picked up this book, hoping for a good story, but I was disappointed. The fact that this woman is transported back in time with no difficulties and fits right in is highly unlikely, especially since she had little or no experience with living outside of the city. She was very selfish, only thinking of her freedom and independence. I wanted to shake her silly! The ending wasn't bad, but it took a lot of eyerolling to get there.
This was a good book. I read it a couple of months ago. I have read almost all of this authors books and I have liked them all. If you like anything celtic you might like this. I is definitely worth reading.
It really surprised me that I was so disapointed in this book that I didn't finish it. The heroine really was annoying! The story was not very well developed and choppy. I enjoy reading romance novels and this is the first one I put down before finishing! :-(
The heroine in this books sure ruins a good read. She was so bent on her "needs" that she appeared very selfish. I found myself wanting to "slap" some sense into her!
A magical midsummer night brings together a modern woman and an ancient king in this charming Irish, time-travel romance. From the author of "Lady of Fire".
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< Queen of the Sun (Timeswept) > < Lady of Fire (Timeswept) > < Maiden of the Winds > < Mistress of the Waters (Love Spell) > < Daughter Of Gold > freaks

< Again > JC Sekharan

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BookSurge Publishing(2009-03-08)
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Again, by JC Sekharan, blends the allusions of myth and the lessons of history into a shocking and thought-provoking adventure, spanning millions of years. Its lyrical and creative prose weaves themes of religious fanaticism, politics, alien visitation, and the links between evolution and civilisation into a story of timeless love, past destruction, and future hope. Sekharan’s Again grapples with the big questions we all ask: where did we come from, where are we going, will humanity survive? The answers may be more surprising and yet simpler than anyone could imagine. Written in the tradition of Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness and Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End, Again uses vignettes of individual lives to convey universal philosophy. Contrasted against dystopian visions is the unmistakable message of the enduring resilience of the human spirit.

< Beyond The Threshold > < State Secrets (Famous Firsts) > < Moonfire > < Banner O'Brien > < Glory, Glory (Bestselling Author Collection) > < My Outlaw > Linda Miller

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Mira

customer 's review
(Enjoy!)

(Miller writes some of the best time travel fiction!)

(If you love Linda...)

I have these stories in two separate books. I read the first one then looked for a sequel in hopes that there was one. I was pleasantly surprised to find it and that Elizabeth and Rue have their own story and meet again for one last time. I have reread and reread these stories. They are good escapes especially with what I have had to deal with. Makes one want to go back somewhere in time also.
It was nice to pick up a book with two time travel novels bundled together. Both were quick, fun reads. I loved that they were both connected. She builds in a real sense of urgency concerning the necklace that sends people back and forth in time. There's plenty of excitement in these two novels.
I have yet to be dissappointed by anything Ms. Miller composes, and if you're thinking a reading this book, I certainly do recommend it. I found it extremely enjoyable and it's maybe the tenth or so novel of Ms. Miller's I've read. As always, I laughed at loud at parts, especially when Rue thought she could never love, let alone be attracted to a man named Farley, but...well, I'll leave that to you. I hope you enjoy it.
The right men . . .

Elisabeth McCartney returned to her family home seeking comfort. But she never dreamed that the journey would help her escape -- from the present. Without warning, Elisabeth finds herself one hundred years in the past, in the home of Dr. Jonathan Fortner. With Jonathan, Elisabeth discovers an unforgettable passion. But she knows too well that nothing can last forever. For Elisabeth understands that the future holds tragedy -- and that she alone has the power to save the man she loves. But will saving Jonathan mean that they are destined to be separated by time?

The wrong time . . .

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.
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< Beyond The Threshold > < State Secrets (Famous Firsts) > < Moonfire > < Banner O'Brien > < Glory, Glory (Bestselling Author Collection) > freaks

< Addie's Knight (Time Passages Romance) > < Timeless Wish > < Everything in Its Time (Time Passages) > < As You Wish (Time Passages) > < A Love Beyond Time (Time Passages) > < Dark Rival (The Masters of Time, Book 2) > Ginny Reyes

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Jove

customer 's review
(STARTED OUT GOOD- -DISAPPOINTED AT THE END)

(Great for a light fun read)

I liked this book at the beginning, but I was very disappointed at the end.

I can understand her becoming adjusted to his time period since she was able to do the things that she loved eventhough she was thrust in another time. Nothing much really changed for her. I mean the year that she lived was just starting to have electricity. She would have been used to not having electricity and other comforts that we have in our time. Being thrust in 1485 was not that much difference, except for the turmoil of that era. As far as I can see, she did not have that much to loose if she decided to stay in his time. She had a man that loved her, people that learned to respect and love her and a sister whom she could have taken with her to his era. But for Sir Robert, he lost everything.

His part is the one that I am having difficulty in accepting. In order to save his life, she had to bring him back to her future. That part I can understand. But for them not to return to his time was the one thing I couldn't understand. How can a knight who is used to being lord of the manor suddenly accept being a stable master's helper? Or the fact that he loved his people and he protected them from invaders, just suddenly accept that he will never again see them or know what had truly become of them? He wouldn't! A man of honor would have gone back to make sure that his people were safe. A man who had been a knight and lord of his manor would never accept becoming a lowly stable hand.

That is my problem with this book. I thought for sure that they would all return to his time once her sister was found. I hate to give away the ending but this is the whole point of my review, they did not return. Even more disappointing, was the fact that I, as the reader, never found out what happened the the people that they left behind in the year 1485. VERY DISAPPOINTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Addie's Knight is not the typical romance book that I pick up and read. I was very pleasantly surprised at the writing style and plot, considering the length of the story. I have usually found that such short books (anything under 325 pages) lack the depth and attention grabbing power that longer books usually carry. Ms. Reyes invites the reader in to an interesting story and doesn't let them go until the tale is well told.

Taking the very popular theme of time travel and mixing it with two time periods other than today's, is a great literary device. It is hard to portray a time in which we do not currently live, finding their values, morals and general ways of life. Ms. Reyes tries very hard to do just that with Addie and Robert. Overall, I think she succeeds, though I would have liked to have seen some more depth. Addie's knowledge of medicine, cleanliness and food preparation are great (but obvious) differences. Ms. Reyes digs a little deeper in Addie's basic belief that war and fighting are no way to settle disputes (though the American Civil War should not be far off in her mind); and Robert's conviction that he must be strong to keep his holdings. But what about women's and men's position in society, noble and commoner, feudal vs. democratic beliefs, etc? These all govern how we behave and see each other, and I felt that they were either too briefly skimmed over or not touched at all. How does a lord, whose only touch with democracy or human rights, would have been knowledge of the Magna Charter, adapt to working for someone else and even seeing him or her as his equal? It would have been ingrained in his mind that they were not his equals.

If you are looking for a good read to pass the time and don't want to think about major philosophical differences, this is a great story to pick up.
York, Pennsylvania, 1885. Schoolteacher Addie Shaw was teaching the Battle of Bosworth--until her students turned the reenactment into a war. Addie leaned against a tree to think--and was flung back in time...York, England, 1485. Addie suddenly found herself amongst knights in armor! Sir Robert Swynton couldn't imagine what sort of woman she was. A sorceress? A spy? Still, he rescued her--and then he fell in love...

* The latest in the popular Time Passages romance series
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