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The Sunstone Brooch by Katherine Lowry Logan
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis book contains violence, sexually explicit scenes, and adult language and may be considered offensive to some readers.From the Badlands to the Bluegrass, this perilous, potentially deadly adventure changes the lives of everyone involved and puts at risk the survival of the Clan and all the Celtic brooches... -
A Page in Your Diary by Keith A. Pearson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTen insane days. One miraculous opportunity to re-write the past."If you lived through the 1980s and love time travel novels, you'll struggle to find a more addictive read than Pearson's latest gem." - Joanna JamesIn May 1987 Jackie Benton received a heartbreaking phone call from her boyfriend, Sean Hardy, bringing an end to their five-year relationship...Categorized as:
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The Moonstone Brooch by Katherine Lowry Logan
Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsInvestigative journalist stumbles upon the story of his career and learns more about himself than he ever thought or imagined.When investigative journalist Clay MacIntyre stumbles upon a moonstone brooch that transports him back in time to the 1901 Pan-American Exposition, he unwittingly sets off a chain of events that could irrevocably change the entire MacKlenna Clan... -
Comes The Dawn by Irina Shapiro
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen Hugo is imprisoned on a charge of treason and Neve is accused of witchcraft by a spiteful rival the Everlys must put their scruples aside in order to save their family and make a bid for freedom. However, their decision will alter not only their own future, but change the lives of everyone they hold dear... -
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Highlander's Protector: A Scottish historical time travel romance by Mariah Stone
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratings... -
Yesterday's Dreams by Jane O'Brien
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsYesterday's Dreams, Book Four in O'Brien's series called A Slip in Time, continues with our favorite characters, Francine, Luke, Dora, and Wade. The two sisters each love a Grainger brother, but one love has been fulfilled, while the other love is torn apart by two different centuries. Fran and Luke begin to make a wonderful life for themselves while living in her family's cottage... -
Need a Little Time by Adam Eccles
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSometimes, the strangest things can happen, right on your doorstep.When you find out your best friend and business partner is secretly sleeping with your wife, it may be time to move on… From your job and your marriage... Which is precisely what happened to Jamie Newgent... -
Los tres nombres del lobo by Lola P. Nieva
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsUna novela que narra un viaje interior: una mujer que busca conocerse a sí misma. Desde la refinada sensibilidad árabe al ímpetu vikingo, en una travesía personal, íntima, en la que se abrirán nuevos paisajes, conocerá otras lenguas, costumbres, el placer de una gastronomía diferente, bailes, vestimentas, el despertar de los sentidos... -
Jason Apsley's Second Chance by Adrian Cousins
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIf you were catapulted back to 1976, what would you do?Meet Jason Apsley, a forty-two-year-old divorcee, who's an opinionated miserable bugger. Struggling with life which is exacerbated by his negative attitude.A random event shifts time, causing Jason to continue life in 1976, six months before he's due to be born... -
The Alternative Lives of Aiden Anderson: A Middle Falls Time Travel Story by Shawn Inmon
Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsAiden Anderson got off to a tough start in life. He had a small family to begin with and they were all gone by the time he turned sixteen.He did his best to shake off his grief and go on to a successful life as a musician. He was talented, but just missed the big time. When he dies in a car crash, he couldn't be more surprised to open his eyes in his grandmother's kitchen in 1961... -
Alien Architect Needs a Nanny by Tasha Black
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe’s there to watch over his children, but he’ll have to watch out for his heart.Emelia Robbins works as an admin at the Alien Nanny Agency. She never goes on assignments, but when a desperate client puts out a last-minute plea for help, her boss decides to send her out in the field... -
Time Visitor: A Time Travel Romance by Elyse Douglas
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn 1944 a Squadron of Navy Planes Disappears off the Florida Coast. One Lands in 2005... In Ohio.A YOUNG WIDOW ENCOUNTERS a handsome, time-traveling Navy pilot from 1944, who force-lands near her home in 2005. They fall in love, but when an angry, powerful suitor discovers the Navy pilot’s incredible identity, they must flee. They climb into the airplane and fly away… into storm clouds... -
Nine Ladies: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Heather Moll
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHow can Darcy and Elizabeth overcome 200 years of differences in this era-spanning love story?The Darcy family has grudgingly kept the secret about the power contained within a nearby stone circle called Nine Ladies. Fitzwilliam Darcy is forced to contend with this secret when a young woman from the future appears at Pemberley... -
BOOK REVIEW: Written In My Own Heart's Blood by J.T. Salrich
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWritten In My Own Heart's Blood by Diana Gabaldon is finally here! After waiting for 5 years, fans of Diana Gabaldon's "Outlander series" can finally return to the characters they know and love. Written In My Own Heart's Blood picks up where "An Echo In The Bone" left off and gets right into the action... -
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System Restored by Adam Eccles
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDerek Cooper is a retro gamer.His small flat is crammed with old consoles, controllers, accessories and shelves brimming full of old games. Quite an amazing collection, but there's always room for one more, isn't there?1981. The world of arcade games is just coming into its own... -
Shattered Moments by Irina Shapiro
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA year has passed since the Sheridans fled the plague in England, but a new crisis tears Valerie and Louisa apart once again, with dire consequences. As the stranded Whitfields desperately try to return home to the seventeenth century, the Sheridans face a threat of a different nature... -
The Dandelion Girl by Robert F. Young
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsInspiration for the Japanese anime series RahXephon and is also referenced in CLANNAD and Portal 2."Day before yesterday I saw a rabbit, and yesterday a deer, and today, you... -
Fire Lord Holiday by Michele Mills
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Fire Lord of Ashmoor cordially invites you to spend the human holiday termed “Christmas” at Ashmoor Manor.Join us for a special Christmas Eve dinner held in the great dining hall promptly at sunset.Decorating an Earth-type cone-shaped tree with “ornaments” and the exchange of charming, wrapped human-centric presents to follow.Lively human species songs performed by Ashmoor staff... -
A Game of Shadows by Irina Shapiro
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt’s 1624, and the Whitfields finally arrive in England, eager to spend time with Louisa and Kit, but their visit is not the happy reunion they’d hoped for.In the meantime in 1777, Abbie and Finn go behind enemy lines to spy for the Revolution, putting themselves in grave danger. The slightest mistake can mean the difference between life and death, and tear them apart forever... -
Back To The Future by George Gipe, Robert Zemeckis
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBased on a screenplay by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gule.HE WAS NEVER IN TIMEFOR HIS CLASSES...HE WASN'T IN TIME FOR HIS DINNER...THEN ONE DAY...HE WASN'T IN HIS TIME AT ALL... -
Callahan's Lady by Spider Robinson
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA HOUSE OF "HEALTHY" REPUTE...Welcome to Lady Sally's, the House that "is" a home -- the internationally (hell, interplanetarily) notorious bordello. At Lady Sally's House, the customer doesn't necessarily come first: even the staff are genuinely enjoying themselves... -
Serpents in the Garden by Anna Belfrage
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter years of hard work, Matthew and Alex Graham have created a thriving home in the Colony of Maryland. About time, in Alex’s opinion, after far too many adventures she is really looking forward to some well-deserved peace and quiet. A futile hope, as it turns out... -
Prison Princess by K.C. Cross, J.A. Huss
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTHE BOYS OF HAREM STATION ARE KEEPING LOTS OF SECRETS! Valor joined up with Tray after Beauty’s sacrifice because he knew Luck was destined to be with Princess Nyleena. There was no room in that relationship for a third wheel. But when he teamed up with Tray he had no idea that he’d be the third wheel in that partnership too... -
Galway by Matthew Thayer
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShipwrecked in the Paleolithic with their modern tools and weapons long turned to dust, survivors of a scientific time travel expedition join their native clan mates on a brutal crossing of the northern ice shelf in search of would-be rescuers from the year 2233. Galway is the fourth book in the 30,000 B.C. Chronicles series... -
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Jarmen's Jane Doe by S.E. Smith
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe is a monster who discovers he had a heart; she is a woman who wants to remain unknown…Jarmen D’ju has no memories of his previous life. They were stolen in the lab that changed him into a monster. Though he was rescued, he knows he will never truly have the life he wants. As a being of half organic material and half cybernetic engineering, Jarmen will always need to hide... -
Committed by Evangeline Anderson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings★This is the story of the very first Kindred Bride★A woman locked in a mental asylum for her visions of the future...A cybernetic warrior who can enter her dreams...Together, they must escape to save the Earth from certain ruin.But will they be in time?What if the Kindred had never come to Earth?The Eye of Ten'gu, trapped beneath the Hell's Gate station, wants to ensure they don't... -
Twisted by Evangeline Anderson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNikki Davis is having a terrible time. Her three sons are in trouble in school and her husband is divorcing her while a nasty coworker steals her best commissions at work. Is it any wonder she's thinking of offing herself? But when she steps into the foaming surf of Clearwater Beach, she feels something hard under her foot... -
Time to Heal by Evangeline Anderson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA Single Mother, Desperately trying to get back her baby A Warrior who swears to help her or die trying Can Skahr and Emmeline steal back her baby before it's too late? And will they have...Time to Heal? Emmeline is a young, single mother all alone in the world... -
The Bewitched Viking by Sandra Hill
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBEWITCHED, BOTHERED, AND BEWILDERED ...Even fierce Norse warriors have bad days. Holy Thor! 'Twas enough to drive a sane Viking mad, the things Tykir Thorksson was forced to do --- capturing a redheaded virago, putting up with the flock of sheep that followed her everywhere, chasing off her bumbling brothers... -
Lady Slings the Booze by Spider Robinson
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsDespite his employer's doubts that he is an authentic detective, Quigley is called in to investigate Lady Sally's establishment, a reputable place that caters to adults of all species and tastes. Lady Sally was the wife of the proprietor of Callahan's Place, the bar where human and other beings from all space and time come to cajole, drink, and occasionally save the world... -
The Callahan Touch by Spider Robinson
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsOpening Night at Mary's Place is the hottest ticket in the galaxy - a brand-new bar with some old familiar faces. Jake's back, along with Doc, Fast Eddie, and the rest of the Callahan's gang. And just when things couldn't get crazier, guess who shows up in the Mick of Time to make sure they do.. -
The Cowboy Encounter by Kristy Tate
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn alternate cover edition of ASIN B00UM6B7TK can be found here.By these waters we do sleepClothed in night so dark and deepLady Moon who doth guide our dreams,Shroud us in your silvery beams.Take us to a distant time When love and hearts doth combine... -
Man Out Of Time by Jason Ayres
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat would you do if you found yourself cast 22 years into the future? Into a world where your home is no longer yours and you've been declared legally dead?This is the situation that Daniel Fisher finds himself as the latest Time Bubble story begins. Stranded in the future, in a place where his outdated currency is worthless, things go from bad to worse very quickly...Categorized as:
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Dress 2 Impress by Janet Leigh
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLiving in Sunnyside, Texas, and working nine-to-five at her brother’s chiropractic office, Jennifer Cloud’s life appears to be perfectly normal.But when the moon is full, she’s a transporter for the World Travel Federation, going back in time to help stop the Brigands from stealing the keys to the vessels that time travelers have been secretly using throughout history... -
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Splinters In Time by Jason Ayres
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGetting lost in the wrong time was bad enough. But things get far worse for Josh Gardner when he can't even find his way back to his own universe. When his ex-girlfriend, Lauren, starts having recurring nightmares about a strange alternate reality in which she was murdered, Josh becomes interested in proving the existence of other universes...Categorized as:
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Seize Today by Pintip Dunn
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe third book in the New York Times bestselling and RITA®-award-winning Forget Tomorrow series is a thrilling conclusion to an epic trilogy.Seventeen-year-old precognitive Olivia Dresden is an optimist. Since different versions of people's futures flicker before her eyes, she doesn't have to believe in human decency... -
The Butterfly Effect by James Swallow
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsStruggling with the psychological effects of his repressed childhood memories, a young man devises a technique of traveling back in time to inhabit his childhood body. As he attempts to mend the broken lives of those closest to him, he finds that every trip into the past brings chaotic results into the present, leading him to travel back again and again and causing irreparable damage...Categorized as:
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Whirlwind Courtship + High Energy by Jayne Taylor, Dara Joy
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJAYNE ANN KRENTZ writing as Jayne Taylor WHIRLWIND COURTSHIP When Phoebe Hampton arrived at the doorstep of Harlan Garand's mountain cabin, he was less than pleased. Convinced that she was another marriage-minded female sent by his matchmaking aunt, Harlan would have gladly thrown her out... -
Caveman Alien’s Touch by Calista Skye
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBronwen He’s the scariest caveman alien on prehistoric, dinosaur-infested planet Xren.Huge and extremely muscled, striped in sky blue and with eyes as piercing as the sun, Noker takes my breath away. Not only does he have a voice like a rock crusher, he also keeps saving my life from the deadly wildlife on this unhinged planet... -
If I Could Turn Back Time by Nicola Doherty
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIf you love Lindsey Kelk and Mhairi McFarlane's YOU HAD ME AT HELLO, you'll love this book... What if you found The One, then lost him again? Or not so much lost him as became the neurotic, needy girlfriend from hell. The girl who tried to make him choose between her and his job, and got seriously paranoid about his relationship with his female best friend.. -
The Viking's Captive by Sandra Hill
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAuthor's Note: This is a revised reissue of My Fair Viking which was published in April 2002 by Leisure Books.Tyra, Warrior PrincessShe is too tall, too loud, too fierce tobe a good catch. But her ailing father hasdecreed that her four younger sisterscannot be wed ’til Tyra consents to takea husband. Alas, with no suitorsbegging for her hand, it looks as if thesisters will all remain virgins... -
Blue Champagne by John Varley
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsA collection of science fiction stories from "the best writer in America" (Tom Clancy)—Hugo and Nebula award-winning author John Varley. John Varley's unique blend of startling technology and genuinely human characters has won him every major science fiction award several times over for both his novels and his short fiction...Categorized as:
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The Norse King's Daughter by Sandra Hill
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHELL HATH NO FURY LIKE A PRINCESS SCORNED!Princess Drifa can certainly see why Sidroc Guntersson is a living legend—on battlefield and in bedchamber both. But the King of Stoneheim’s daughter pitches a royal fit when she learns of the true reason for the virile Viking’s passionate attentions... -
Viking in Love by Sandra Hill
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsShe said...Caedmon of Larkspur is the most loathsome lout I have ever encountered! When my sisters and I arrived at his castle, we were greeted by servants and children running wild, while Caedmon lied abed after a night of ale. No doubt there will be another child soon, because I must admit he's as handsome as he is virile... -
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Llama Unleashes the Alpacalypse by Jonathan Stutzman, Heather Fox
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the hilarious follow-up to Llama Destroys the World, author/illustrator team Jonathan Stutzman and Heather Fox give Llama another shot at saving the world…from himself, in Llama Unleashes the Alpacalypse. Llama’s back and ready to destroy the world AGAIN… this time with his best camelid, Alpaca!Llama loves cooking. And baking. And, above all, eating... -
1997 by Kirsty McManus
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAnna Matthews is moving on. After a tumultuous year where her life took an unexpected turn, she is now looking to the future with the help of a few old friends. Everything gets off to a great start with Anna and her high school friend Kelsey planning a new business together...Categorized as:
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Trapped in Time by Evangeline Anderson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratings*This is a PLUS length novel--over 100,000 words long*** A woman trapped in the past A dark, intense warrior who claims she is his wife Will Caroline survive her stay in the parallel universe she has fallen into? Or will she be forever...Trapped in Time? Dr. Caroline Lambert has a PhD in Astro-Temporal Physics but no clue about matters of the heart... -
The Bride Program by Dane Griggs
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMaya Arnold was leading a normal life, working and helping care for her sister, until the Cerasteans arrived. Offering a cure for cancer if enough women volunteer as brides, Maya jumped at the chance. Saving her sister was her only goal. She never expected to actually fall in love with an alien, or find best friends in the other bride volunteers... -
Desperado by Sandra Hill
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen Major Helen Prescott and Rafe Santiago, the man she secretly desires, are transported back to 1850 after a skydiving mission goes horribly wrong, they are mistaken for a legendary bandit and his seductive mistress, and now, on the wrong side of the law, they succumb to undeniable passion... -
Sweeter Savage Love by Sandra Hill
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTHE STROKE OF SURPRISINGLY GENTLE HANDS ...THE FLASH OF FATHOMLESS BLUE EYES ...THE SCORCH OF WHITE-HOT KISSES ...And once again, Harriet Ginoza was swept away into rapturous fantasy. The up-to-date psychologist knew the object of her desire was all she should despise, yet time after time, she lost herself in visions of a dangerously handsome rogue straight out of a historical romance...
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