A Touch In Time by McKenna Chase

Story 7
Presentation 8
Total 15
Author Published
Western Erotic - Time Travel

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Blurb: While at the rodeo with her best friend, Brianna Donovan loses her balance and stumbles backward. Momentum carries her over the railing and into the well-lit arena floor below. But when she comes to, Brianna isn't at the rodeo. She's in the arms of a sexier than sin ex-Texas Ranger, Jake Dawson, and the year is 1868.

Jake learned the hard way that beauty can be a deadly distraction. Trusting a woman's honeyed lies had nearly cost him his life a year earlier. So he ties Brianna to his bed, determined to seduce her into telling him the truth about who sent her there. Only the more he touches her, the more he wants to keep her there as his prisoner of passion forever.

Brianna finds herself falling for her handsome captor with his heated kisses and seductive caresses. He is everything she could ever want in a lover. Bold. Rugged. Masterful. Temptation at its finest.

By the time Jake accepts the truth - that Brianna is from the future - it's too late. He's fallen for her. He's also aware that fate brought her to him and fate could take her away just as suddenly. Will they have a chance to follow the passion in their hearts? Or will all they have be nothing more than a touch in time?

Review:  The story is a fun read with engaging characters, a good flow to the action and plenty of steam between the pages. I loved how she fell back through time and I liked how she didn’t hide that she was from a different time. But there are places that felt as if I missed something, like there were gaps in the story. The timing was off and the rapid scene shifts were at times jarring. But the writing is good and so it was easy to find my way back into their story and once again enjoy what I was reading. A Touch In Time is a good story and worth reading. A book you don’t want to put down.

Where The Rain is Made by Keta Diablo

Story: 9
Presentation: 9
Total: 18
Publisher: Decadent Publishing
Historical Time Travel
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Blurb: A decadent-looking savage has captured Francesca DuVall and her brother, Marsh. Now she must spend every waking moment planning an escape from the camp of the brutal savages. What she doesn't count on is the powerful draw of desire interfering with her scheme.

Ethan Gray is a curator at a national museum in Washington, D.C. . . . most of the time. But when he travels through time to help his beloved People, he becomes Meko, leader of the most revered and feared tribe of the plains, the Cheyenne Dog Soldiers.

Their worlds are decades apart, yet Meko can’t resist the dark beauty he kidnapped during a raid. He has many battles to fight, but none more crucial than capturing Cesca’s heart forever.

Review: What a wonderfully written historical. The amazing attention to detail really made the story POP! Filled to the brim with heart stopping characters, a riveting plot and a love that spans time, this one will remain on my shelf for years to come and be revisited often :)

I cringed, flinched, sighed and shed a tear. Any story that can do that has my vote all the way. Ms Diablo, yet again yet have given us, the readers, a story that just defies words.  I look forward to seeing more from you in the future :)

Timeless by Blaise Kilgallen

Story: 2.5

Presentation: 4

Total: 6.5

Publisher: Class Act Books

Time Travel

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Blurb: Harassed by an employer, Suzanne Thibold picks up a pre-read paperback to de-stress and is whisked to 1870 Dry Wells, Texas, inhabited by rank cowboys and town folks. She almost adjusts to the conditions when she learns Oscar Needham bought her as a Mail Order Bride.

A bronco-buster hired by the S-bar-M Ranch, Cady Dillon comforts Suzanne after she is frightened by a shooting fracas below her hotel room. A burst of adrenaline has them making love. Cady knows she's too good for him. He deserts her and heads for the California gold fields.

Suanne awakens in her hotel room, but in the year 2010, still in Dry Wells. She is hired by the town's current banker. Inhabitants she meets seem very familiar. When she gets a flat tire in a mall, Suzanne's former lover's great-grandson fixes it for her. They agree to meet at Dry Wells' Summer Rodeo. Cady (William) Dillon stands Suzanne up, but then appears at her condo after midnight to explain why.

Will she forgive him? What do you think?

Review: Have you ever heard the saying "Can't see the Forest for the tree's?" Well, with this book I couldn't see the story for the words.

Let me start by saying that this is the first of Ms Kilgallen's works I have ever read. There were parts where the story flowed quite nicely and was easy to follow, unfortunately the sections that confused me far outweighed the parts that didn't. While I respect an authors desire to write authentic lingo, PLEASE make sure it is consistent and easy to read. I came across so many sections where I had to read a paragraph several times before I could grasp what was trying to be said that by the time I got it, I forgot what I was reading.

There were many words in the story that were penned in slang lingo that, though they might have been correct in 1870, reading page after page of dialogue filled with "yestiddy", "meebe", "p'bably", "skeered", and "jest" (to name only a few) became quite taxing on my brain. Not to mention the frequent misuse of the conjunction "y'all" If you are not familiar with this slang it is a combination of "you all" NOT to be confused with "you". Here is just one example of the misuse....“Sugar, y‘all so soft and cuddly I cain’t help wantin’ to touch you.”

Misspelled words (Apiece, Computer-ized, Viet Nam ), missing punctuations, and a few ickies (if a man EVER felt me up and said it was soft and squishy? EEEEW!) describing his penis rubbing along the birth canal in her lower body or "I‘m dying to suck on your nipples, like a l‘il babe starving for mommy‘s milk." NOT SEXY!! (These are just a few examples as there is no way I can name them all).

There seemed to be major holes in the editing in this work which I find to be a sad injustice. I feel that with decent editing this story could have been a much better read than what it was. A 200 page book has NEVER taken me 7 hours to read from start to finish. Though for me this story bordered on violating the Geneva Convention, I find myself drawn to certain parts where the dialogue was not so hard to follow and would read another of this authors works before I made a final decision about whether to read her in the future.

Sisters in Time by Ginger Simpson

Story:9
Presentation: 8
Total: 17
Publisher: Eternal Press
Time Travel
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Blurb: Two eras collide when a modern day attorney and a pioneer wife find themselves locked in a time not their own.Mariah Cassidy awakens in the twentieth century. Confined in a pristine environment, hooked to tubes and beeping machines, she’s scared, confused and wondering why everyone keeps calling her Mrs. Morgan. Who is the strange man who keeps massaging her forehead and telling her everything is going to be alright?Taylor Morgan tries to focus on her surroundings through a blinding headache. The patchwork quilt, the water basin, and the archaic room don’t strike a familiar chord. Her mouth gapes when a handsome man waltzes into the room, calls her darling, and expresses his delight that she’s on the road to recovery.Clearly something is amiss.

Review: An interesting tale about two women who trade places across the span of time. Ms Simpson really has a way of opening your imagination to the possibilities of "what if?" I can only imagine what these two couples went through during the time when the wives were swapped...No I'm not talking about swinging :) but a swap across time without consent. Try explaining that one to your hubby....or the strange man who says you are his wife...HOLY CRAP !! who are you crazy man and just what do you think you are doing? :)

Though there were some minor editing issues and it may not be what most would classify as "romance" the story was totally enjoyable and one I could not put down once I got started. When I was forced to step away from the computer.....drat life for interfering :) I was eager to return to discover what was going to happen next.

With characters who are easy to like, Ms Simpson has done another good job. This is not the first, nor will it be the last book of hers I pick up. Thank you, Ginger for the escape from the mundane. You never fail in the delivery :)