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< Grand Design: The Hope Chest (Ballad Romances) > < Fire With Fire: Hope Chest (Ballad Romances) > < Stolen Hearts > < At Midnight (Ballad Romances) > < Enchantment: Hope Chest (Ballad Romances) > < Traded Secrets (Timeswept) > Karen Fox

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(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) > < Fire With Fire: Hope Chest (Ballad Romances) > < Stolen Hearts > < At Midnight (Ballad Romances) > < Enchantment: Hope Chest (Ballad Romances) > freaks

< The Impostor (Timeswept) > < Traveler (Timeswept) > < Pray Love, Remember > < Untamed Angel > < Hand&Heart of a Soldier > < Love Just in Time (Timeswept) > Elaine Fox

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Leisure Books

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(Wow, what a story)

(A fun romp through time)

(Imposter take me away!)

(Call in sick and read this book.)

It took me a few months before I got round to reading this book. I thought the heroine Melisande was going to be like Laura from THE SCORCERER'S LADY, but I couldn't have been more wrong.

I was spellbound by this story. Flynn Patrick was a man to die for. Melisande was not the prim and proper 19th. century young lady who denied the passion she felt for Flynn.

This story is one of the best I have ever read. There is no way you can predict what is going to happen until near the end, which is what I loved about this book. I loved being surprised.

This book is definately a keeper. I can see myself rereading it over and over again. It is a shame it had to end. Please Elaine write a sequel to it. Perhaps you could explain why, what happened to him as a child did happen to him. I'd love to know.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading Ms. Fox's, The Imposter. From the first page to the last, it kept me entertained. Flynn is a pretty down to earth guy who tries to cope with his change in circumstances. He doesn't want to believe that he was thrust back in time any more than Mel wants to believe him. At first everything is a big joke and doesn't quite seem real. As it dawns on Flynn that everything is quite real, he faces the situation with a typical modern American male attitude: brazen your way out. Ms. Fox shows the reader how vastly different 1815 moral standards are from 1998 ones. Flynn just can't grasp why everyone cares so much what everyone else thinks. Mel can't figure out this uncouth, brash American who seems to be no gentleman but who wears fine clothes and is educated. Class distinction is so important in 1815 she doesn't know where to categorize Flynn. This dichotomy is one of the points which makes this book work so well.

Next, Ms. Fox does a wonderful job with the time travel element. Up until the very end Mel doesn't fully believe Flynn has come through time. Unlike so many time travel novels where the opposite lead believes in the time traveler's story in a matter of hours or days, she actually thinks him a little insane until all the pieces of the puzzle start coming together. The ultimate tie-in between future and past was well done. The weakest link in the story is our heroine Mel. Although I realize she is supposed to be a product of her time, she comes across as a conniving, graspy female as opposed to a supportive mate. She is so upset about having to marry "beneath" her station that I felt her acceptance of Flynn was too close in the plot to his reversal of fortune. Does she really love him, or does she only accept him now because he's not a nobody? Although she gives lip service to the fact that she is marring Flynn because of her sister's reputation, I found her motives to be self-centered and extremely spoiled. I am surprised Flynn agreed to the marriage.

All and all, this is a great story, one you don't want to miss!
Oh this book was sooo good! I read it so fast because my friend let me read it before her and I just couldn't put it down. It was my weekend accomplishment it was all I could do. I would put it down and pick it right back up. This was a unique story line and I couldn't predict what was going on. It kept me on the edge of my seat just like an action movie. I seriously think you should give this one a chance and get to know the characters you will fall in love with them.
The Imposter picks you up and takes you with it on a path of intrique, romance, travel and intellectual and erotic excitement. When the last page turns you are breathless with desire to go on with the lives of these characters. My only criticism of the book is that the story had to end! A book to pass on to friends who love to read and enjoy a fast paced, unexpected romp. This book was a delight. I read it from cover to cover and felt I had been off to Britain on hoilday.
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< The Impostor (Timeswept) > < Traveler (Timeswept) > < Pray Love, Remember > < Untamed Angel > < Hand&Heart of a Soldier > freaks

< The Mystery of Simonetta (Picas Series) > < The Miracles of Prato: A Novel > < Murder of a Medici Princess > Claudio Angelini

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Guernica Editions Inc.
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(a wonderful book)

(A Middle-aged Man's Wet Dream)

The Mistery of Simonetta is a fascinating story, one of the most beautiful books on the Renaissance I ever read, even though it is not a biography but a novel with some fictional elements about the character of Simonetta Vespucci. The fascination of this book is that the author is able to create a continuous connection between fantasy and reality, history and dream, present and past, developing a winning love story in a terrific setting. The mistery of Simonetta held my hands, introducing myself in the magic world of the Lorenzo the Magnificent`s court, and I discovered the fantastic charm of this man, his incredible culture, his uncontrollable passions and his art in governing an unquiet city. The plot of the novel is fiction, but the reconstruction of the customs and the quirks is scrupulous. And some events, like the Pazzi`s conspiracy and the Giuliano`s tournament, seem to come out of the CNN breaking news. I repeat that this book is really beautiful. By reading The Mistery of Simonetta, you breathe the air of the Renaissance.
What an awful book! Maybe it's marginally better in the original Italian rather than in translation, but not even the beauties of the Italian language could save the mish-mash contents. I bought the book thinking it was a serious attempt to shed light on the beautiful and mysterious Simonetta Vespucci, a young woman who in late 15th-century Florence apparently inspired the painter Botticelli as well as rousing the amorous passions of the ruler of Florence, Lorenzo de' Medici, and his brother Giuliano. She died, probably of tuberculosis, in 1476.

What this author has produced, instead of a genuine study of Simonetta, is a disjointed fantasy in which the author himself somehow time-travels back to the Renaissance, takes up residence with the family of Simonetta's husband, and of course makes love to Simonetta. Even this far-fetched idea might have been fun, if only the story weren't full of glaring anachronisms and if the author hadn't done such violence to the major historical character of that era.

As an example of an anachronism, he has people talking and worrying in the 1470s about the epidemic of syphilis that didn't strike Italy til the late 1490s. As for defaming a historical character: he makes Lorenzo de' Medici into a monster-- not just a tyrant but a vicious sexual predator, who twice rapes poor Simonetta, except the woman he rapes isn't really Simonetta, she's...oh, never mind. The whole premise is too silly to describe, and the sex scenes aren't even convincing. As a final absurdity, the author claims, with absolutely no historical justification, that Simonetta was poisoned.

There's nothing to recommend this book-- it's a waste of time and money.

Among the many masterpieces in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence are two of the world's best-loved and most enigmatic paintings, Botticelli's "La Primavera" and "Birth of Venus". The woman chosen to portray the springtime and the goddess of love was the great muse of the Renaissance, whose beauty inspired painters, poets, and philosophers. Simonetta Vespucci was the embodiment of the Renaissance ideal, with her blonde tresses, pale skin, and languid gaze. Although she became immortal through art and lived on in the city's memory, she died at the tender age of twenty-two in obscure circumstances. Claudio Angelini makes the world of Renaissance Florence come alive in a work that is part historical fiction, part mystery, and part journey through time.
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< The Mystery of Simonetta (Picas Series) > < The Miracles of Prato: A Novel > freaks

< What, No Roses? > < A Hoboken Hipster in Sherwood Forest > < A Connecticut Fashionista In King Arthur's Court > < Thirty Nights with a Highland Husband (The Daughters of the Glen, Book 1) > < Playing with Fire (Silver Dragons, Book 1) > < News Blues (Love Spell) > Marianne Mancusi

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Love Spell
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(Valentine's Day and all that jazz)

(what a waste of time!)

(Disappointed!)

(fine satirical time travel romantic suspense)

I'm a sucker for Jazz-Age music and styles, and when I first heard about this book, I was itching to find it. The tale is light and witty, and like a Damon Runyon story of Guys and Dolls, it never takes itself too seriously, which makes the twist involving VR at the end a little more credible. I think I knew all along something was up with the time-travel mechanics, but I rode with the story and while it's certainly not F. Scott Fitzgerald (though he does make a cameo appearance), it's a fun read if you like a good romance with enough historical color to put you in the mood.
The previous reviewers were far too generous in my opinion. This book was TERRIBLE! The plot was plodding and highly unbelievable. The humor was slight to totally non-existent (and stupid as well). And the characters were as unsympathetic as you can imagine-I didn't care anything about any of them. I LOVE time travel romances in general but this one left me cold as well as $7.00 in the hole. What a waste of my time and money. I thought this book would be much better.
I truly wanted to like this book; I looked forward to buying it. I love time travel romances, however, I found this one lacking in many areas. I found the plot to be ho-hum, not very interesting. The characters, except for one from 1929, weren't that endearing or likeable-I didn't care what happened to them! The book is littered with modern slang and cliches, so much so that it was annoying. The book's attempts at being funny and comedic seemed contrived to me as though the author tried too hard at being funny. The only good parts of the book took place when the female character from 1929 was involved in the action. Other than that, it wasn't as good as I expected it to be. The ending is a real letdown! Rent the book from the library is you must read it; don't buy it. Oh,well. Not a total waste of time but not a good read, either.
Journalist Dora Duncan resolves to avoid dangerous assignments, drop her boyfriend Nick who apparently dropped her already without informing her as he no longer calls, e-mails etc., and especially no longer wait for her sweetheart on Valentine's Day. At work and at love, she is disenchanted.

The FBI recruits Dora on a dangerous assignment though they do not like using civilians. They want her to travel back in time to February 1929 to prevent Nick, already there, from changing history. She agrees and in a blink of an eye she and a rodent go back to 1929 Chicago. There she finds herself in a wild scenario as her new boyfriend is a mobster who adores her feet and another gangster wants her in his bed; she has not had as many sexual opportunities in her entire adult life mostly in the next century. Still the mission is simple keep Nick out of the St. Valentine's Day massacre.

This fine satirical time travel romantic suspense will please sub-genre readers due to the solid intelligent characterizations. Dora and her ratty companion behave like fish out of water and the people she meets are eccentric caring individuals who happen to be on the illegal side of Prohibition. As Marianne Mancusi did with the frivolous fun frolic, A CONNECTICUT FASHIONISTA IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT, WHAT, NO ROSES? is a delightfully amusing lighthearted romp.

Harriet Klausner

Unless Dora Duncan can stop it, it's going to be another St. Valentine's Day Massacre. A year ago, her (now ex) boyfriend Nick stood her up at the worst possible moment. That was when she gave up important TV reporting for stories like "Too Stressed for Sex." And though such clips have a certain relevance, things have been a whole lot quieter. Too quiet. Until now.

Now she's gotta go back in time (don't ask!) and stop that very same Nick from messing up the time-space continuum. She has to travel back to a place where everybody speaks easy and cuts a rug-and this Chicago ain't no musical. Here, there are tommy guns and torpedoes, guys and dolls, gin joints, flappers, stoolies, rats and a whole lot more; and prohibition means anything but no.

It's the 1920s. Time for Dora to roar.
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< What, No Roses? > < A Hoboken Hipster in Sherwood Forest > < A Connecticut Fashionista In King Arthur's Court > < Thirty Nights with a Highland Husband (The Daughters of the Glen, Book 1) > < Playing with Fire (Silver Dragons, Book 1) > freaks

< Circle of Time > < The Starry Child > < All Through the Night: A Troubleshooter Christmas > < Son of the Morning > < A Garden In The Rain > < Dark Seduction (Masters of Time, Book 1) > Lynn Hanna

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Onyx

customer 's review
(A truly captivating story)

(Great Sequel...As Good As The First!!)

(great sequel)

(A whimsical journey into Highland Territory.)

(Excellent! You have to read this book.)

What a wonderful read...............engrossing in nature and the lore and legend of Scotland. Her writing took me there with the characters. An amazing story of survival and the power that love holds on one another. Facinating and intense at one point in the book, so as I could not put it down.
The best an author can do.
I will now go back and find the first book and read it.
I just happened upon Circle of Time in the library. Lucky me.
I loved Lynn Hanna's first book "The Starry Child" and was eager to read the second in this series and boy was I glad I rushed out to buy this book "Circle of Time". Both books are a tribute to the bindings of family, history and the healing powers of love through time. These books are a must read for any mythical romance lover!! Why not as captivating as the first book, "Circle of Time" holds it own and more!!
I loved it! I hope there is a third one in the works cause I'm there if there is. I love how the whole family all once lived another magical life togther in the past and have to correct the past mistakes to make everything right in the preseant.
great read I highly recommend it!
A bit of a fantastical waste, but an amusing and magical tale in its own way. This is the story of the Macinnes family, a Scottish family empowered with special powers of a sort. They have the ability to commune with spirits, ancestors of old, some telepathic qualities, as well as the ability to conjure up and see faeries and fairy dust in magical forests. The story begins when the father of the Macinnes clan is downed in a horrible plane wreck, and from there the reader is taken into lands unimaginable and fantasies galore. It was a bit too Wonderlandish for me, but a good escape on a quiet evening in front of the fire if you are so inclined. The romance aspect of the story is truly washed up and overused, but the rest of the tale is bouncy and magnetic.
This book ties together the love of a family and the almost special powers of the three women in the story. The characters are so real and powerful. The message is still one that love conquers all.
The magic of Scotland...
The mysteries of love...
The magnificent time-travel romance from the author of The Starry Child

WithThe Starry Child, author Lynn Hanna created a unique contemporary novel based on the legends, lore, and love of Scotland. Now Ms. Hanna returns to this enchanting world--where the sole survivor of a plane crash on the rocky coast of Scotland discovers the key to his wife's forgotten past, his daughters dreams, and his own heart...

"Wonderful and original."--Penelope Williamson

"Magical and magnetic."--Romantic Times

"Spirited yet tender."--The Romance Reader

"Lynn Hanna will steal your heart away!" --Barbara Freethy

* Scottish time-travel in the bestselling tradition of Diana Gabaldon
* A wonderful follow-up toThe Starry Child, nominated for the Romance Writers of America's RITA Awards (Best Paranormal and Best First Book)
* Lynn Hanna was a finalist for two Romance Writers of America's Golden Heart Award
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< Circle of Time > < The Starry Child > < All Through the Night: A Troubleshooter Christmas > < Son of the Morning > < A Garden In The Rain > freaks

< River of Dreams (Time Passages Romance Series) > < Waiting for Yesterday > < Distant Dreams (Time Passages) > < Lost Yesterday (Time Passages Romance) > < Echoes of Tomorrow (Time Passages Romance) > < Time to Dream (Time Passages) > Jenny Lykins

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Jove

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(a very good read)

(Didn't like the start of the plot)

(A gentle, time traveling delight!)

(A must read!)

(Best one yet!)

This book was a very good read indeed. If your bored, it's cold outside or a rainy day, this book is perfect! It's about a young lady Brianne living in the present day that goes to a seance and meets a handsome (ghost)named Griffen who call's the heroine Brianne by another name "Amily". During a freak thunderstorm the heroine (Brianne) finds herself catapulted back in time and low and behold there is the handsome ghost Griffen but in the flesh! How did she get there? Who is the the handsome man with haunting blue eyes and how does she get back home in the present time? Great story and it took me two days to finish! I hope you enjoy!
Brianne is asked to return to Griffin's time with the knowledge that his wife, Florence, would die of a miscarriage and then they would die just before their own wedding. She goes back in time hoping to change things. Her cousin Florence is such a nice devoted wife but shy of her wifely duties. Griffin is fond of her so they can't act on their love for each other behind her back but we have to read about their going without each other until she dies. I couldn't enjoy such a plot. Then we have a flu epidemic, his saving captured slaves, and a villian's revenge.
In present day Baton Rouge, Brianne finds herself haunted by a handsome spirit who has occasionally spoken through her best friend David since they attended a séance. When things become too intense something happens to Brianne. She is transported back to 1832 and into the presence of the handsome flesh and blood stranger AND if that isn't enough she lands in the body of the one woman who can't have him.

A lot happens once she is transported and becomes Amily. Some readers will be accepting of the many coincidences and the explanations and some may not. But that's the idea of alternatives romances... there are no rules. I found it humorous, fun and entertaining.

She also has two other Time Travel Romances: ECHOES OF TOMORROW and LOST YESTERDAY
This is a great sequel to Distant Dreams, and even though I read River of Dreams first, I enjoyed both books more than any in a long time. I love the way this author gets you to feel the emotion.
Ms. Lykins keeps getting better with every book. I loved the way she had this book connected with Distant Dreams, which was set two years earlier. This is one author who always leaves me surprised and satisfied! Another great one, Ms. Lykins! Keep them coming! Please!
A brand new Time Passages romance

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1999. Brianne Davis thought a seance would liven up her busy life. But now she's haunted by the persistent voice of a lovestruck ghost!

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1832. In a flash of lightning, Brianne wakes up in the body of another woman--in another time. And the ghostly voice unleashed in the seance is there in the flesh, promising to love her...body and soul.

"Lykins is truly a storyteller extraordinaire."--Virgina Brown

"Jenny Lykins is a talent to watch." --Debra Dixon
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< River of Dreams (Time Passages Romance Series) > < Waiting for Yesterday > < Distant Dreams (Time Passages) > < Lost Yesterday (Time Passages Romance) > < Echoes of Tomorrow (Time Passages Romance) > freaks

< Longer Than Forever > < Once upon a Tangled Tale (Faerie Tale Romance) > < Time Heals > < Time of the Rose (Time Swept Romance) > < Yesteryear's Love > < Only Time Will Tell (Time Passages Romance Series) > Bronwyn Wolfe

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Alone in turn-of-the-century Chicago and framed for a crime he did not commit, Patrick's hopes are answered in the form of the lovely Lauren, a time traveler from present-day Southern California.
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< Longer Than Forever > < Once upon a Tangled Tale (Faerie Tale Romance) > < Time Heals > < Time of the Rose (Time Swept Romance) > < Yesteryear's Love > freaks

< The Diary of Jean-Jacques Coupier (Time Travelers, 5) > < Beneath the Wings of Isis (Time Travelers, 7) > < Portrait of Lydia (Time Travelers, 6) > < Wild Roses for Miss Jane (Time Travelers, 2) > < Reflections of Toddsville (Time Travelers, Book 1) > < When We Do Meet Again (Time Travelers) > Hollie Van Horne

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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) > < Beneath the Wings of Isis (Time Travelers, 7) > < Portrait of Lydia (Time Travelers, 6) > < Wild Roses for Miss Jane (Time Travelers, 2) > < Reflections of Toddsville (Time Travelers, Book 1) > freaks

< A Love Beyond Forever (Timeswept) > < Night Visitor (Timeswept) > < Enchanted Time (Timeswept) > < Circles in Time (Timeswept) > < Wings of the Storm > < The Enchantment (Sonnet Books) > Diana Haviland

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Love Spell

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(A dark tale of love and romance in Puritan England)

(Thoroughly enjoyable read)

(Not a bad read)

(A GOOD BOOK)

(Highly creative and realistic)

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Kristy Sinclair has been dreaming every night a vision of a man with brilliant green eyes, surrounded by evil beings that mean nothing but harm to Kristy. In spite of the vividness of these nightly encounters, she believes they are nothing more than dreams; surely they are not premonitions of things to come. When she comes across an antique scrying mirror in a New Age Boutique, she has to have it, though she can't begin to explain why. She looks into the mirror and sees those same green eyes which have haunted her nights, and suddenly she is seeing a flesh and blood man, with those same eyes. Somehow, Kristy has been magically transported, via her mirror, to a distant past, where anyone even remotely suspected of witchcraft is hunted down and killed as a matter of course.

Jared Ramsey is a successful smuggler of goods forbidden in Puritan England. Imagine his surprise when upon returning to his room one night, he finds a lovely woman of unusual speech and dress already there. Even more surprising are her claims that she comes from another time and place! Witchcraft!! She is beautiful, unlike anyone he has known, so it is only natural he come to her rescue, when she is accused of witchcraft. He takes Kristy with him on his travels to unload his cargo and gather information for his greater mission... to return a Stuart to his rightful place on England's throne.

Witch hunters and the Lord Protector's police aren't all who on their tail however. A powerful witch, Gwyneth, is after them as well, wanting Kristy's dormant powers for her coven. Hers is one of The Left-Hand Path though, practitioners of black magic and Kristy is terrified of the witch. But Gwyneth has one thing that may lure her to them. Kristy has no memory of the first six years of her life, or her parents. This evil witch claims to have all the answers Kristy has long sought, but will only reveal them when she comes to the coven willingly.

Kristy is horrified to hear what the coven wants of her and Jared doesn't know what to believe. He doesn't want to think she is a witch, but.... The more time he spends with Kristy, the more he desires her and wants to believe her, despite his doubts. He finds himself helping her to escape witches and hunters alike. As their journey takes them across England and into Scotland. But there is no escaping such powerful enemies. Will Kristy and Jared overcome the evil they are faced with? And what about her forgotten years? Is she really a powerful witch like Gwyneth claims? Is she descended from a legacy of darkness or light?

This was an interesting, though it had a very dark storyline. Anyone who has a hard time hearing about black magic practices should not read this book. There are references to different kinds of sacrifices the witches make, though no specific details or description. This book is all about the struggle of good vs. evil, with lots of romance thrown in.

Kristy and Jared's attraction is immediate from the moment they meet, even before that, in her dreams. Jared struggles with his attraction to her, since he has a hard time believing her claims of time travel and that she is not a witch. He is afraid of being drawn into something evil, from which there is no escaping. Before Gwyneth is really introduced, when Kristy is just having visions of her and the mysterious red fog she travels in, one can sense the malevolence in her character, knowing there is something about her that is far from right. Just the descriptions of her appearance and silent actions in the beginning are enough to send chills up the reader spine and cause the hairs on the back of the neck to prickle, leading in to a lot of times where that will happen.

This was a good book, giving some interesting details of Puritan life in England, and the time period. It is apparent Ms. Haviland did her research thoroughly for this tale. And fear not, good does triumph over evil in the end, as it should, with an interesting spin on the story line.

© Kelley A. Hartsell, July 2002. All rights reserved.
What wonderful characters Jared and Kristy are. They compliment each other perfectly. Whilst reading I couldn't believe Kristy was a witch who had travelled back in time to the days of Oliver Cromwell.

Diana has left the ending with the possibility of a sequel to it. I hope she does write one. Well done Diana on a thoroughly enjoyable read.
I loved the premise of the story and felt that there could have been so much more, but thought the execution was a little lacking. As what always seems to happen to the shorter books, (under 375 pages) the scenes were rushed and jumped from one point to another. Our heroine falls back in time, meets our hero, they make a mad dash across Northern England and lo and behold, after one or two days our hero believes our heroine has traveled through time.

Ms. Haviland does an excellent job of describing the time period of Cromwell's England and the Puritanical thoughts that ruled people's lives. But what happened to Jared? Granted he is a royalist, but he still would have held some fear of that which is different. That he so readily believes Kristy traveled through time, and can accept her as a witch and still love her stretches the imagination a bit. Wouldn't she be thought of as a lunatic? She does have some proof that she is from the future, but to be so readily accepting, defies even literary credibility.

Thus saying, and seeming to come down harshly on the book, I did enjoy reading A Love Beyond Forever. The characters are well developed, though there are some lose ends with the secondary characters. This is a decent book to read in front of a fire on a cold winter night, or out on a beach in the summer. I was just a little disappointed because I felt the potential was there for a great book, not just a good one.
I enjoyed reading this book, and would suggest it to others looking for a good romantic novel . . .If you want to read a book that goes straight to your heart, read Stolen Moments by Barbara Jeanne Fisher. . .It is a beautiful story of unrequited love. . .for certain the love story of the nineties. I intended to give the book a quick read, but I got so caught up in the story that I couldn't put the book down. From the very beginning, I was fully caught up in the heart-wrenching account of Julie Hunter's battle with lupus and her growing love for Don Lipton. This love, in the face of Julie's impending death, makes for a story that covers the range of human emotions. The touches of humor are great, too, they add some nice contrast and lighten things a bit when emotions are running high. I've never read a book more deserving of being published. It has rare depth. Julie's story will remind your readers that life and love are precious and not to be taken for granted. It has had an impact on me, and for that I'm grateful. Stolen Moments is written with so much sensitivity that it made me want to cry. It is a spellbinder. What terrific writing. Barbara does have an exceptional gift! This book was edited by Lupus specialist Dr. Matt Morrow too, and has the latest information on that disease. ..A perfect gift for someone who started college late in life, fell in love too late in life, is living with any illness, or trying to understand a loved one who is. . .A gift to be cherished forever
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It combines mysticism and romance in a very believable and colorful past. EXCELLENT READ. GREAT ENDING!!
In the solace of slumber he first tempted her and Kristy saw the promise of paradise reflected in his eyes. But it was only a dream, she swore, as were the visions of witchcraft that haunted her nights. But in a New Age boutique, an antique hand mirror showed the beautiful executive more than mussed lipstick--that magnificent man, and a land she had never before known.
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< A Love Beyond Forever (Timeswept) > < Night Visitor (Timeswept) > < Enchanted Time (Timeswept) > < Circles in Time (Timeswept) > < Wings of the Storm > freaks

< Shades of the Past > < Magic at Midnight (Signet Regency Romance) > < Summer's Secret (Regency Romance, Signet) > < My Lady Domino and A Commercial Enterprise (Signet Regency Romance) > < Breaking the Rules (Signet Regency Romance) > < Lavender Blue (Signet Regency Romance) > Sandra Heath

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(The stars are for Blair)

(Could have done without the time travel aspect)

(Interesting, fast paced)

(Unsuccessful mixing of regency and present time)

(Past meets present -- a good trip if you don't ask how!)

It happened again!!! So often I have read a book and the hero was great, stupendous, out of this world. And the heroine???? Slightly less than perfect. This would have been a good book, but the heroine seemed to me to have fallen in lust with the guy, not love. She had been living with her boyfriend (an automatic turn off for me, right off the bat) and it seemed like she just had an itch that needed scratched. Anyway, short story--he was great and the book would have been great with a different type girl. The time travel was a bit jarring as well. I agree with the other reviewers. This would have been a strong Regency without it. And for me, with a different female lead.
Also, not complaining, but this seemed a bit racy for a Regency. At least the Regencies I've read.
The plot of this Regency was strong enough without the time travel. It's not really hurtful to the way the story moves along, but to me it's not necessary. Author does do a skillful job in describing the heroine's feelings as she goes back&forth. But I think I would have enjoyed it more as a straight Regency with the wrongfully manipulated heroine/trick-the-hero plot. Ending kind of veers into melodrama, but that's the kind of plot it is. This was my first reading of this author&I look forward to reading more of her work, even though this review isn't the strongest -- guess that will confirm she can write well!
Excellent book reaching back to the authors better days. Short on foppish irregularities and long on action and sex. I recommend it highly.
Although I love both regency and time travelling novels, I must say that this book is a rather poor combination of the two of them and would have been better without the time travelling part. The present day heroine is kind of sex-starved, the transitions between present and past are unconvincing and sometimes even confusing. The regency part (with a regency heroine) itself would have been a nice enough story.
Much less detailed than many of Sandra Heath's other novels,this one follows an American actress who's unlucky in love and out of work as she travels to London using a recent inheritance. Money is not all she inherits as her ancestry vaults her back in time where she finds true love. Unfortunately, the length of the book doesn't allow this competent author to develop either location sufficiently.
Laura Reynolds, a beautiful and skilled modern actress, is plunged back in time to Regency England, a world in which actresses have scandalous reputations, and is forced to take part in a plot against the handsome and arrogant Lord Blair Deveril.
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< Shades of the Past > < Magic at Midnight (Signet Regency Romance) > < Summer's Secret (Regency Romance, Signet) > < My Lady Domino and A Commercial Enterprise (Signet Regency Romance) > < Breaking the Rules (Signet Regency Romance) > freaks

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