Terri Harrington’s Flashback may not be the best-written time travel romance I’ve ever read or the deepest, but it is my favorite. It’s a simple story, one which takes a different approach to the material than many others. It’s not concerned with the mechanics and complications of time travel. It doesn’t spend time showing how…
Spenceworth Bride is the second in a duo of time-travel romances in which the respective heroines trade bodies and experiences. I had not read Sixpence Bride, the first of the two, before reading this one, but it didn’t make any difference since Spenceworth Bride stood on its own as a light, entertaining way to while…
For those of you who have waited patiently for the final chapter in Chapman’s Highlander trilogy, Wedding the Highlander was so worth the wait. In Michael MacBain’s story, there is a lot more magic, a more intense romance and whole lot of great sex. Libby Hart is a trauma surgeon from California and she’s running…
Lynn Kurland is beloved for her portrayals of the time-traveling MacLeod family of Scotland. Various family members have traveled to modern-day Scotland from their home in the 13th century Highlands. One by one, each found love in their new place in time and, if this book is any indication, Ms. Kurland has earned her large…
In the thirteenth century, Stephen of Bellingham and Amarantha of Ullswater fall in love. He is a powerful baron. She is a beautiful warrior maiden, whose loving parents allowed her to master the arts of war and the hunt. Mara’s parents arrange the match between her and Stephen in order to ward off the loathsome…
My Secret Protector is a romance novel that entertains in spite of the romance, rather than because of it. This is a time-travel fantasy with some intriguing ideas and a story that gains momentum as it goes along. It also happens to work best when the love story is shoved into the background, which is…
Celine Fontaine, a panic-attack-prone American heiress, is whisked away from her family’s ancestral French chateau and back in time by a lunar eclipse on New Year’s Eve, 1993. Winding up in the Artois Region of France in the year 1300, she immediately encounters Sir Gaston de Varennes. To be more specific, she encounters him in…
In Loving the Highlander, the sequel to Charming the Highlander, the men of the MacKeage clan from 12th Century Scotland continue to adapt to life in the 21st century. Morgan MacKeage is a modern-day warrior who still wears his sword and roams the backwoods of Maine completely adrift in his new world. Into his world…
Sherry Lewis tries to do a difficult thing in Only Time Will Tell. She starts out with two deeply flawed characters, and tries to show how their love strengthens them and makes them both better people. The problem is that they are both initially so unlikable that it’s really hard to care whether or not…
Janet Chapman has definitely got a good thing going with her Highlander trilogy and, if this second installment isn’t quite as compelling as the first entry, anyone who enjoyed the dynamic Greylen MacKeage and Charming the Highlander won’t want to miss this one. Morgan MacKeage is one of several 12th century warriors transplanted in error…
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