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< A Distant Magic (Guardians (Del Rey)) > < Stolen Magic > < A Kiss of Fate: A Novel > < Dangerous to Know > < The Marriage Spell: A Novel > < The Lost Duke of Wyndham (Two Dukes of Wyndham, Book 1) > Mary Jo Putney

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(A weak romance)

(putney fan)

(Commits the Big Sin)

(Reaches well beyond the romance genre)

(A fascinating attempt at a challenging goal)

I wish that I could strongly recommend this book. After all the premise is original, there's magic involved and the characters are likable. But the latter half of the book is mired in abolishing slavery and going through time to fight the unseen evil that is promoting slavery.

Not exactly romance material and it really detracted from the story. It almost felt like a story about slavery instead of romance. Not a good mix at all. I think the intention was to make it an epic love story that spanned ages but it failed on that front.

good, I like her work. I do not like her contemproary works as well. It is her great history research that I appreciate. I hope she keeps writing.
The child, Nikolai Gregorio, survived in the streets by stealing and using his untrained mage powers. Eventually he decided to rob the Macrae, who promptly recognizes him as a fledging Guardian and offers to take him back to England to raise him as a foster son. Unfortunately, on their way back to England, the ship is taken over by pirates and Nikolai is forced into slavery. The Macrae searches for him, but fails to find him and eventually gives up the search. Escaping slavery as he grew to adulthood, Nikolai vows two things - to end slavery by any means possible and to have vengence on the Macrae. Finding his way to England, Nikolai realizes that the Macrae is dead and decides to kidnap his daughter, Jean, in order to carry out his twisted revenge. Jean, herself a powerful Guardian, doesn't surrender meekly, but is stolen away regardless. During a tremendous storm at sea, Jean manages to save the ship and the lives of everyone on board. By this time, both Jean and Nikolai realize their strong feelings for each other and Jean joins Nikolai in his quest to hasten the end to slavery. Using their magical powers and aid from ancestors of Nikolai, Jean and Nikolai begin "time-hopping" in order to bring about events that would hasten the laws against slavery.

On her dedication page, Ms. Putney implores her friends who are authors to stop her if she should ever decide again to write about a social movement. My God, I hope they listen to her. I have read all of Mary Jo Putney's novels. While some are more entertaining than others, all of them have managed to hold my interest to some degree. This book commits the cardinal sin of being just flat out boring. I hate it when authors use their novels as platforms for their various beliefs and causes. (Christine Feehan is famous for this - writing about everything from strange dog breeds to hyping a real life bed and breakfast in California.) Instead of reading a romance, I feel like I am reading an Info-merical. Sure, slavery was pretty horrible, but if that was what I wanted to read about, I would read some real life works about the Underground Railroad or Harriet Beecher Stowe. As it was, I wasn't sure what was historical truth and what was fiction in this book. I know the romance certainly took a backseat to the slavery angle, and I became quite disgusted with the entire story about halfway through. I continued reading it, hoping the book would "right" itself, but it never happened. Don't waste your money on this yawner. Thank heavens I waited until paperback to buy it.
I wish I could give this book four and a half stars. I can't give it five because of a middle section, dealing with initiation into the use of magic, that drags badly.

It is no snerk to say that the book is based upon a social movement -- namely, the growth of abolitionist sentiment in England from the mid 18th century into the first quarter of the 19th century. This book culminates in 1807 with the passage of the bill abolishing the slave trade by ships under the English flag.

The romance element (not the description of human love) is minimal. There is ample sexual tension, but very little sex. Putney really stretched her wings with this book and produced a result that is well beyond the conventions of the genre -- well beyond, in fact, even her earlier two books in the "Guardians" series.

Unfortunately, this may well result in her established readership not liking the book, while since it has been marketed as romance, the book is unlikely to reach a wider readership in the general fiction field.

Nevertheless, she is certainly to be congratulated for having taken the risk.
Mary Jo Putney, a wonderful writer of romance and fantasy, has set herself a challenging goal. In A DISTANT Magic she weaves together the romance and fantasy of her GUARDIAN SERIES with the history of the abolition of slavery plus a bit of time travel.

The Guardians series (A KISS OF FATE and STOLEN MAGIC) is set in the mid 1700's with main characters who are members of the British and Scottish aristocracy and whose families have, for centuries, wielded magical power drawn from nature. These families have banded together vowing to use their powers to help others rather than for personal gain.

While the prior books in the series did touch on particular historical events, they were first and foremost about romance. A DISTANT MAGIC is first and foremost about abolition but the story is told in a fascinating way through its framing within the Guardian world. It is a thought provoking tale and revels some things about this time in history which startled me.

In Marseilles Jean McCrae, a fiery Scottish Guardian, is kidnapped by Captain Nikolai Gregorio, a Maltese ship owner who seeks revenge against the McCrae family for a wrong he believes the MaCrae family did him. Nikolai, who was once captured by pirates and spent time as a galley slave, has dedicated himself to freeing as many galley slaves as he can, sailing the Mediterranean to find them. He is appalled to find an irresistible attraction to Jean. Through a fantastical set of circumstances, Nikolai and Jean join forces to travel through time supporting the key moments of the abolition movement.

While I typically read romance novels for escapist relaxation, I was fascinated by the concepts here: the parrallel worlds, the magical initiation, the importance of individual contributions to historical events, and especially the idea of like-minded people offering each other support across time and space.

I understand that those looking for uncluttered escapism may be disappointed with this book. And I rate it with four rather than five stars because it was impossible for Ms. Putney to fully develop her characters here as in past novels. However, she succeeds remarkably and produces a very satisfying and thought provoking book.
Mary Jo Putney’s passionate, vivid characters and captivating stories have earned enthusiastic acclaim from reviewers and readers everywhere. Now the New York Times bestselling author weaves a new tale in the Guardian series–a dazzling romantic fantasy that takes readers not only from the elegant streets of London to a dangerously tempting Mediterranean island but across time.

Jean Macrae’s family is one of the most prominent clans of Guardians, humans whose magical powers come from nature, but Jean considers her skills modest at best. She has never been able to summon the intense, earth-altering ability that has marked the most talented Guardians, and she is content without the adventure that such skill brings . . . until the day she is confronted by a handsome stranger whose magic imprisons her on his pirate ship.

Captain Nikolai Gregorio is convinced that Jean’s father abandoned him, as a child, to slavers. Now he seeks vengeance against the Macraes, no matter the cost. But Jean soon finds his untrained magical gifts far more dangerous than his thirst for revenge, especially when they intensify her own powers to an unthinkable–and enticing–degree.And when Jean and Nikolai’s irresistible connection summons a woman from the future, they are charged with a formidable task: protect those who will oppose slavery’s evil and forever change the future of two nations. This quest will sweep Jean and Nikolai into the most fantastic of realms and try their powers beyond even what the Guardians themselves would dare. And when ultimate disaster threatens, they will stake everything on a shattering test of love that could secure the fate of generations . . . or destroy them and all they cherish.

From the Hardcover edition.
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< Charming the Highlander > < Loving the Highlander (The Highlander) > < Wedding the Highlander (The Highlander) > < Tempting the Highlander > < Only With a Highlander > < Secrets of the Highlander > Janet Chapman

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(Loved this series!!!)

(Nice Tale)

(Quite A Good Book!!)

(Loved It!!)

(Fans of Karen Marie Moning will love Janet Chapman!)

I read each and every book from this series in order and nonstop. OMG...What an amazing experience Granted there were some characters that I loved thoughout the series. One of the things that most impressed me is we really get to see the happily ever after throughout the series.

If you have the money and can afford to buy the whole set, that is the experience that you are shooting for from this author. Chapman is creative funny, and sincere with these characters and you feel the love between main players as well as the family they have around them. After all those books I was still left wanting more.

I passed my set to my sister. She calls me at the end of each one to discuss the new characters, the new dynamic they'll create in future novels in the series.

Truly a fun read. The best read since my first historical romance (Knight in Shining Armor).

The first three books of the Chapman Highlander series has been sitting on my bookshelf waiting to be read for two years. I finally cracked open the first and enjoyed what I found. Well developed characters and an interestingly told story make this tale a treat. I truly liked Grey and Grace, but more so individually than as a pair. I felt the romance was truer in the beginning than as the story progressed and I was expecting something steamier with the love scenes. Truth be told, it's hard to compete with Karen Marie Moning when it comes to time traveling Highlanders.
I really enjoyed this book. This is the first book I have read from this author. I enjoyed the story and characters. Will definitely read more!
This book was great! Once I started reading, I couldn't put it down. I found myself crying in parts, laughing in parts.
I loved it so much I went out and bought Charming the Highlander. I loved Morgan from the first book and can't wait to read his story.
Ms. Chapman is a gem of a story-teller with a terrific sense of humor (gotta love that Daar!), and a wonderful eye for detail.
Enjoy!

Boy howdy. A Medieval Scottish warrior, plus his men, horses and mortal enemy, is transported in a flash to the 21st century by a wizard, determined to have Greylen meet the woman he's destined to marry. Their seventh child, Winter, will carry on the wizard's work - if he can ever get them together! Greylen MacKeage is a true warrior, a prime alpha male. The sort who radiates menace if a man threatens a woman. The sort who radiates heat and furious strength, even when half naked in the snow (drool). He's a foreigner in a foreign land and time, and it takes rocket scientist (yes, really) Grace Sutter to break through his barriers, and teach him to love and trust. I didn't expect to enjoy this novel so much! It was a spirited debut with plenty of menace from the physical elements plus evil, evil man, and showcases Medieval hero Greylen at his glorious, savage best. Grace is an intelligent, strong, likable woman; a perfect match for the wild Greylen. Deliciously, some of the other alpha males will have their own book. Yum.
A feisty beauty tempted by a bold highlander's touch...When a plane crash strands brilliant scientist Grace Sutter on an icy mountaintop in Maine, she finds herself alone in the wilderness with the only other surviving passenger -- Greylen MacKeage,a sexy, medieval warrior who's been tossed through time to find the woman he's destined to love. Forced together to survive the harsh, wintry landscape, neither expects the fierce passion that flares between them. But Grace is not used to letting her heart take control, and Greylen will settle for nothing less than her heart's surrender....
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< Veils of Time > < A Dance Through Time (Time Passages Romance) > < A Knight's Vow > < Stardust of Yesterday (Haunting Hearts Series) > < A Garden In The Rain > < The Very Thought of You > Lynn Kurland,Angie Ray,Ingrid Weaver,Maggie Shayne

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(Oh, Lynn)

(Great Time Travel Stories)

(Very good stories)

(One of these deserves 5*'s the rest are pretty average.)

(Best Time Travel anthology ever!)

I loved Lynn Kurland story in this book, couldn't get into the other stores much, but that could have just been me as I'm into time travel and Scottish historical right now. Romance for me has to have more then boy meets girl, boy looses girl, boy gets girl or vis versa. An adventure, or a myster...those who like the other author's in this group will more then likely like there stories.
And the Groom Wore Tulle - Lynn Kurland -This short story follows Ian MacLeod from the Scottish Highlands dungeon of his arch enemy William Ferguson in 1313 to the backroom of a bridal boutique in New York city 1999. Ian MacLeod was thought to be dead and in disposing of his body, the knaves dropped him off in just the right forest that contained the portal to the future and his kinsman, Jamie MacLeod - only geographically he ended up thousands of miles off the mark but thankfully with a young woman who after her initial shock, took him in and would help him find his way home - somewhat the same way he would find his way into her heart. Fast, and amusing tale, highly entertaining. 4*

The Con and The Crusader - Maggie Shayne - This was a real cute story of a consummate con man, Jack McCain, about to be blown away by the mob, jumps into a well, and swears if he gets one last chance to mend his ways, he will `work' as hard as he can for a living. Naturally, this is a `time machine' well and he ends up 100 years in the past where `hard work' is a way of life. He is picked up by the local sheriff and herded along with a prison work gang until the widow Hawkins, needing a handyman and not able to hire one, uses a little used rule where a woman could save a man from prison if he wanted to marry her. Well, getting married was not in this con man's agenda but it sure beats prison and before he new it his heart was captured! 3-1/2*

A Bride Most Common - Angie Ray - I really liked this one, where the time travel was planned with a unique way of transporting a person's consciousness into a person on the verge of dying in another time, namely Regency England. The plain, short, but quite intelligent Lucy Taylor was hurtled back into the beautiful but impoverished Lady Cynthia's body just as she was about to take her wedding vows! Not quite revived from the transformation, she found herself agreeing to be married. Now she had a month to build an antique radio, right a mistake that could change environmental hazards, and put off consummating a marriage to a perfectly handsome studmuffin that was her husband! 4*

Conyn's Bride - Ingrid Weaver - On the eve of her wedding, Alanna Moore, museum curator, slips on an old bracelet she is cataloging, and is trying to get some last minute details completed when the lights go out and out of nowhere appears this handsome hunk, dressed in little more than leather pants, and a cloak who calls her by name and knows everything there is to know about her. He is Conan ap Rhys and he is back to wed her. - This was a delight and thoroughly enjoyable. I loved the poetically sensual dialog Conan uses as he tries to convince Alanna of their past love. Great story. 5*
AND THE GROOM WORE TULLE BY Lynn Kurland is about Ian Mc'Cloud, cousin to Jamie. Having found himself in his enemy's dungeon waiting to die, Ian is transported 700 into the future. THE CON AND THE CRUSADER BY Maggie Shayne is about a con man who jumps down a well when he is being chased by some people who want to kill him. He promises to work as hard as he can if he can get away from them. After he jumps down the well he wakes to find himself in the past. A BRIDE MOST COMMON BY Angie Ray is about Lucy who is sent back in time by her empolyer and finds herself in the body of Cynthia Randal and about to be married to Kieran Walcott. She is sent back in time to correct a mistake that will have a devistating effect on the wildlife of the future. CONYN'S BRIDE BY Ingrid Weaver is about a man who has traveled hundreds of years in the future to find his long- lost bride. When he does find her she is about to marry another man. These four stories are all wonderfull if a little on the short side. They could all have been given there own book each. Well done.
Veils of Time is similar to most anthologies. At least most that I've read. Two of the stories are painfully average, one is good with the final being outstanding. Few authors can create a full fledged love story in less than 100 pages and as a result most of these left me feeling less than satisfied with the too rushed outcome.

Lynn Kurland's "And The Groom Wore Tulle" is a good story if you're looking for a laugh. It's about a 1313 Scotsman who time-travels to 1999 (just don't ask me how because I still can't figure it out). He meets the heroine who immediately takes him home (hey, this is a short story so things have to move unbelievably *fast*). The heroine is of the doormat variety and the story is light on logic and romance development but nonetheless it's still a fun read.

The Con&the Crusader by Maggie Shayne doesn't fare quite so well. It's about a con man who gets flung back in time (this time at least it's explained!) and saved from life in the slammer when the heroine rescues him by offering her hand in marriage. She quickly proceeds to turn this criminal into a hardworking family man. Sorry, I just didn't buy his quick reformation and Jack was just too smarmy to fit my idea of a hero. This one is my least favorite of the anthology because of its predictability and over-the-top sweetness.

A Bride Most Common by Angie Ray starts out great but peters out by the end because it becomes overstuffed with plot threads. Lucy gets sent back in time by her kindly old boss to correct an error. She awakens holding the hand of a regency hunk and quickly discovers that she's no longer in her own body and is married to the dude! Like I said, this one starts out great with lots of wit and charm but quickly becomes bogged down with other less interesting stuff and I lost interest.

Conyn's Bride by Ingrid Weaver is my favorite. The heroine, an antiquities dealer, finds a gorgeous Celtic bracelet in one of her shipments and can't resist slipping it on her wrist and, boy, does her life ever change for the better! Suddenly a gorgeous man appears professing his undying to love to her. He insists he's been traveling far and wide to find her and that she is long lost bride. She's excited (who wouldn't be?) but soon learns that he's only bumped his head _really_ hard and is more than a little bit confused. Or is he? This story works on all levels and is simply charming. It's very romantic, super funny, sensual and may even evoke a tear from a few readers.
Okay I love everything Lynn Kurland has ever written, "And The Groom Wore Tulle" is no exception. A continuation of Ian MacLeod's character (Jamie's Cousin) from "A Dance Through Time" (I recommend you read this first), this tale is hysterical. A mediaval Scottish warrior, and fabled lover, finds he's spoiled one virgin too many and winds up in the dungeon of his worst enemy. Thinking he is going to die, he wishes he could have found the way to the future and his cousin Jamie. Upon passing out the enemy's cohorts think he's dead and deposit him back on MacCleod land in the midst of the magical faery ring which transports him to 20th century NYC in the storage room of a bridal shop full of wedding dress, just waiting for the woman of his dreams to discover him and decide that he's INSANE! Thinking he's in heaven he dons one of the gowns (his angel robe no doubt) and things just get funnier from there. Maggie Shayne is probably best known for her vampire stories, so she's no stranger to paranormal romance. In this story, "The Con and the Crusader", a boy who's spent his life avoiding work has grown up into a conman. Having a shred of scruples left he doesn't con good folk only criminal types. When arrested by the police as a possible crime witness he is caught in the crossfire as the now wise criminals catch up with him. He escapes, still handcuffed and dives into a wishing well. As he falls he promises God he will work hard from now on, if only he survives this experience. Be careful what you wish for! He lands in the prison yard in a time gone by and is being perused by a beautiful older woman, a widow with two wards, who is decided upon making an inmate her husband to save her farm and the room over the children's heads in exchange for his freedom. It's a sweet story as love reforms him. Angie Ray's "Bride Most Common" is a tale about a time machine. The heroine is a scientist, her boss has invented a time machine, the time traveller enter's a dead body at the moment of death and carries on from there. Unfortunately his feckless relative, who tested the machine, freaked at the major bullet wound he finds in his new body and doesn't complete his task thereby changing history, Pollution is rampant, many species of animals are going extinct. The heroine must go back and fix things. To her surprise she finds herself the in the role of the bride in a marriage of convenience. It isn't long before the groom realizes this isn't the cold woman he thought would let him live his life in peace. He is drawn to her and she to him, but here's the catch he has to die to save the future and she has to return home. Whatever will they do?

Ingrid Weaver's "Conyn's Bride" is by far the best story of all. The heroine is a museum expert. She is cataloging a shipment of Celtic antiquities when a box bursts open and suddenly she is faced with an authentic Celtic warrior who claims to be her long lost fiancee. A Sleeping Beauty story of sorts, one of timeless love. You see he left his love behind to do his duty, only to return as she has decided to go to him, she drowns in a flooding river as he watches unable to save her life. He feels his own life is ended but a woman of magic tells him that he will have another chance with his soulmate in another time, another place. He knows his heart's mate at once but will he convince this woman that he is the love of HER life?

Fabulous collection of stories, I hope they will do others. ~ Leslie Tramposch - Pghromance
Today's bestselling romance writers invite you to four special weddings--across the veils of time...

National bestselling author Lynn Kurland'sAnd The Groom Wore Tulle

National bestselling author Maggie Shayne'sThe Con and the Crusader

Rita Award winner Angie Ray'sBride Most Common

National bestselling author Ingrid Weaver'sConyn's Bride

* Time-travel and weddings--a match made in heaven!
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< Highlander's Challenge > < Rogue's Challenge > < Sword of the Highlands (Berkley Sensation) > < Master of the Highlands (Berkley Sensation) > < Temptation of the Warrior > < Thirty Nights with a Highland Husband (The Daughters of the Glen, Book 1) > Jo Barrett

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(Highlander's Challenge- A Joyfully Recommended Title)

Amelia Tucker, Tuck she likes to go by, is on her latest body guard gig trying to keep her charge from getting kidnapped. It doesn't help that her charge, Jenny, has taken them to Scotland where Amelia's guard must always be up around all the tourists. One particular man has her senses on high alert.

As Jenny distracts Tuck from watching the man, he sneaks up and attacks Jenny sending Amelia splashing into the fountain and hitting her head. When Tuck opens her eyes she's not in the twenty first century anymore. Somehow she's back in the sixteenth century finding out that men expect her to obey their every command. Tuck is not the type to obey anyone and Colin Maclean, the handsome laird in her way finds that out the hard way.

Highlander's Challenge will blow you away. This magical, mystical, sensual story will capture your attention and not let go. Amelia is a lovable character that is strong and intelligent. The struggle to stay with Colin will grab your heart and not let go. Amelia and Colin felt so alive I feared they would walk off the pages. If you love brawny highlanders and tough heroines Highlander's Challenge can not be missed! Jo Barrett is an author now on my auto buy list!

Klarissa
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Amelia Tucker, or Tuck as she prefers to be called, latest personal bodyguard assignment turns into one she'll never forget, thanks to a crazed kidnapper, one enchanted fountain, and a sixteenth century Highland Warrior determined to keep her under lock and key. Who will win this battle of wills?
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< Temptation of the Warrior > < Master of the Highlands (Berkley Sensation) > < Sword of the Highlands (Berkley Sensation) > < Soul of a Highlander (The Daughters of the Glen, Book 3) > < A Warrior's Taking > < Highlander Ever After (Leisure Historical Romance) > Margo Maguire

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(B+, Good, but not Amazing)

(Historical paranormal romance)

(Amnesia, Time Travel, gypsies and romance)

(Temptation of the Warrior)

(fascinating romantic fantasy)

SYNOPSIS: Handsome Warrior from Past Travels to Future To Meet His Future

HANDSOME WARRIOR: An evil one has killed my father and now she is out to destroy us! I must travel to the future, find the stone and destroy her.

HANDSOME WARRIOR'S COUSIN: Remember what the oracle foretold! Your wife will be there!

HW: Pssssht. I must go. Save our world. To the future I go!

HWC: Remember not to use magic or else the evil ones will find you!

HW:

HW: Unhand that woman, you scoundrels!

DAMSEL IN DISTRESS: Oh, dear! Help me!

HW: I'll save you!

DID: Are you okay?

HW: No, I do not know who I am. Who are you?

DID: I am your wife, Jenny. Let us travel with the gypsies who will help us while you recover.

HW: Ok.

DID: You're hot.

HW: No, you're hot.

DID: I want you! But I can't have you. You're probably already married or betrothed.

HW: I don't think so. Let's do it.

DID: No. Yes. No. Oh, okay.

HW: You're good.

DID: Now, I must find my locket.

HW: Okay, since I don't have anything else to do.

HW: I remember who I am (talking to himself). I must find the locket. I think it contains the stone. I love Jenny, but she is not mine, so not verra mine. I cannot take an earthling to Scotland, but not Scotland.

HW: I found the locket/stone!

DID: The evil headmaster has found me. He knows I know his secret for spanking bare little girls' bottoms!

EVIL SORCERER: That's mine. Hand it over.

HW: I don't think so. We're running off to Coruain. See ya. Wouldn't want to be ya.

HW&DID: Let's destroy him together. Handsome warrior, you have spells and you're not an earthling. Jenny, you're really not an earthling, you're one of the descendants of our people.

ES: Aaaaagh!!!!! I'm mellllllllllll-ting.

HW&DID: We did it! Now we can live together in Scotland, but not Scotland and live happily ever after so we can shag non-stop.

The End.

Although the spine of this book labels it a 'Historical Romance' it actually has a considerable dollop of paranormal woven through the pages. Merrick Mac Lochlainn has to travel through time to protect his people from a great evil. His journey is from the Isle of Coruain in the year 981 to 19th century England where he seeks a special stone, one of two that exist somewhere in England, with just the prediction that he needs to find 'Keating' on the Carlisle Road. As Merrick arrives on the Carlisle Road he sees a woman being attacked by four men and wades in to help, knowing that he can't use his usual magic in this situation as it will alert his enemies as to his location.

Jenny Keating, the young woman the mysterious man helps, has her own secrets. She's recently left a school where her treatment had been decidedly Jane Eyre-esque with beatings from the Reverend Usher, the Headmaster. Her one item of value, a special pendant left to her by her parents, has been stolen and she's on the train of her erstwhile roommate Harriet whose brother apparently lives in Carlisle. Jenny decides to travel to Carlisle to find the pendant before taking up her new position as governess just north of Carlisle. Her strange abilities to affect objects when she feels emotions strongly have made her keep herself to herself - along with the fact that everyone she has ever trusted has left her.

When the man who helped Jenny against the assailants wakes up from a crack on the head he has amnesia. Jenny names him Matthew and says he is her husband so that a band of Gypsies will help them. But Merrick remembers nothing of his mission and believes that he is Jenny's husband. As the band travels slowly towards Carlisle Jenny finds herself getting more and more attached to Matthew but she fears that a man such as he must have a wife whom he will remember.

The story moves on as they hunt for the pendant, Merrick's memory returns and Jenny and he realise that they have no future. But is there more to Jenny than meets the eye and are the prophecies about Merrick's future wife misleading?

This was an enjoyable book with some interesting settings with the band of Gypsies and moving around Carlisle in the search for the pendant. Jenny and Merrick were both believable and likeable characters although Reverend Usher seemed rather a pantomime villain. The paranormal aspect of this story felt sometimes a little of a distraction and the short scenes back in Coruain were, for this reader at least, rather spurious. However it was a good read overall.

Originally published for Curled Up With A Good Book© Helen Hancox 2008
As head of his clan, Merrick MacLochlainn feels the tremendous burden of protecting his people from the evil sorceress Elianor. To prevent her from taking over their clan, he and his brother must travel forward some 1000 years into time to the 1820's and collect sacred stones. Merrick finds himself in North England and when he spies a young woman being visciously, attacked he comes to her aid.

Jenny Keating has finally secured a position as a governess and is more than ready to escape the horrible conditions of her employment. She is teaching at a boarding school with a cruel headmaster. When she takes her leave she discovers that her roommate has stolen her locket, the only memento she has from her deceased parents. She is on a quest to retrieve the locket from the runaway girl. Unfortunately, she is waylaid by ruffians.

When Merrick comes to Jenny's aid he is shot and suffers amnesia. Jenny realizes that their situation is dire and when a traveling band of gypsies rescue them she claims he is her husband.

Merrick is attracted to Jenny and fully believes her story. Jenny is confused about her feelings for Merrick. She worries he may have a family back in Scotland. They have a passionate romance but Jenny is in a constant worry over Merrick's past.

Jenny wants to be with him but also frets about her own strange mystical powers. She has never shared them with anyone. Merrick is running out time and when he begins to learn about his past, he realizes that his clan desperately needs him but so does Jenny.

Merrick is a wonderful hero, kind of alpha male but never obnoxiously macho. His love for Jenny is powerful but it pulls against his duty to his clan. The ending was a bit rushed for me and there were a lot of characters to remember, good and bad especially in the last chapters. All in all, however, this is an enjoyable read.

As his clan's newly crowned chieftain, Merrick MacLochlainn must travel 1000 years into the future to protect his clan from evil. A less that pleasant arrival to the future combined with a blow to the head, leaves Merrick with no recollection of his quest to find a sacred stone that will save his clan. Nor can Merrick remember Jenny Keating, the woman who claims to be his wife.

Jenny Keating's life has been grim and brutal until the day she is saved by a heroic stranger. Posing as his wife to protect herself, Jenny finds herself falling for her handsome savior. With trouble not far behind, the pair must work together to save one another and realize their fate.

Merrick MacLochlainn is as yummy as his brother, Brogan (A Warrior's Taking). Men with a brogue make my knees quiver. Heroes with a brogue, magical talents AND muscles to die for, bring me to my knees. Merrick left me on the floor begging for more.

Don't miss Margo Maguire's Temptation of the Warrior! A time traveling romance with a battle against mortal evil and paranormal evil as well, Temptation of the Warrior is a must read!

Annmarie
reviewed for Joyfully Reviewed
In 981 on the Isle of Coruain, High Chieftain Merrick MacLochlainn knows he has no choice but to do the mission in order to keep the Druzai safe from the malevolence of their long time enemy the witch Eilinora, who escaped incarceration, killed Merrick's father, and stole the scepter of power. The first leg of his quest is to retrieve sacred stones that will bring back powers to the Druzai. However to obtain the stones means he must travel forward in time to 1826.

Merrick goes forward over eight centuries, but upon finding himself in Regency Northumbria; he is mentally confused and cannot recall his past let alone his mission. He also has problems with just who is Jenny Keating, whom he rescued from some attackers. They travel together until the reach a Gypsy camp where she claims she is his wife. Merrick knows that is untrue but does not expose her as he wants her safe while his mind heals. As he recovers and falls in love, Merrick believes Jenny is the source for his obtaining the stones. However, both know he must go back in time, but can she accompany her beloved if they retrieve the stones while his known foe and other death sorcerers cause mayhem.

TEMPTATION OF THE WARRIOR is a fascinating romantic fantasy that employs time travel to bring together a Dark Ages Scottish warrior and a Victorian woman. The time travel is especially handled really well as he struggles with effect of the trip. The story line is fast-paced from the opening segue when Merrick tells his courageous female cousin Ana no that he not she will journey and never slows down until the confrontation. Fans will appreciate Margo Maguire's magnificent good vs. evil thriller and want to read Merrick's brother Brogan's tale (see A WARRIOR'S TAKING).

Harriet Klausner

A new land, a new time . . .

To protect his people from a great evil, Merrick Mac Lochlainn, newly crowned high chieftain of his clan, must travel forward in time nearly 1,000 years. But when he awakens in nineteenth-century England, he has no memory of his mission to save his race, nor can he recognize Jenny Keating, the spirited young beauty who calls herself his wife.

A new love . . .

Orphaned and on the run from a cruel headmaster, vulnerable and alone, Jenny never dreamed of being rescued by any man, much less a chivalrous and handsome warrior like Merrick. Drawn to his powerful physique and mysterious ways, she begins a dangerous deception and poses as his beloved. But her feelings of desire are all too real. Together they will battle a dark threat that jeopardizes their very lives, all the while tempting each other with a passion too powerful to resist.

Rerations
< Temptation of the Warrior > < Master of the Highlands (Berkley Sensation) > < Sword of the Highlands (Berkley Sensation) > < Soul of a Highlander (The Daughters of the Glen, Book 3) > < A Warrior's Taking > freaks

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