Best of
Time-Travel

2003

Charming the Highlander


Janet Chapman - 2003
    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....

Forward to Camelot


Susan Sloate - 2003
    On November 22, 1963, just hours after President Kennedy's assassination, Lyndon Johnson was sworn in as President aboard Air Force One using JFK's own Bible. Immediately afterward, the Bible disappeared. It has never been recovered. Today, its value would be beyond price. In the year 2000, actress Cady Cuyler is recruited to return to 1963 for this Bible-while also discovering why her father disappeared in the same city, on the same tragic day. Finding frightening links between them will lead Cady to a far more perilous mission: to somehow prevent the President's murder, with one unlikely ally: an ex-Marine named Lee Harvey Oswald. Forward to Camelot: 50th Anniversary Edition brings together an unlikely trio: a gallant president, the young patriot who risks his own life to save him, and the woman who knows their future, who is desperate to save them both. History CAN be altered ...

The Angel in the Darkness


Kage Baker - 2003
    Limited edition chapbook in the The Company series.

Before Anne After


James R. Paddock - 2003
    Through a series of small errors and oversights – a missed phone message, an unlocked high-security door, a lax in protocol, a falling purse – eight-month pregnant Annabelle Waring unknowingly stumbles into her husband’s time-travel experiment. She awakens in a 1943 Charleston Navy Shipyard barracks with no memory of the event. Her existence and her sanity become questionable; if not for her newborn baby and a Charleston, South Carolina police officer, she would certainly have checked herself into the funny farm. Her doctor, alias German spy, learns before she does that she is not only a time-traveler, but a highly educated woman in the field of nuclear science and World War II history. When she finally discovers her own secret, Anne must strive to get both her and her infant daughter home, even at the risk to her own life. Before Anne After starts you asking penetrating questions. “What would happen if man, or woman, could travel back? Would she be able to change history? Should she? Could she? And then what?” Imagine what the conversations would be like if she could meet with Dr. Robert Oppenheimer, who is in the middle of building the first atomic bomb, or Admiral Wilson Harris, as he prepares to observe the Philadelphia Experiment. Imagine if she could chat with Ernest Hemingway. Imagine what it would be like to be a modern, highly educated, highly intelligent woman in a 1943 society.

Distant Echoes


Judie Aitken - 2003
    Kathleen Prescott had every good reason to stop the film from being made -- she inherited one of the schools from her ancestors and fear bad publicity. But neither Jesse nor Kathleen had any reason to expect the power of mutual attraction -- or the magic of an heirloom brooch -- to bridge the gap between them. Now, as the sparks begin to fly, the handsome Lakota and the prim young beauty are swept through time to the distant year of 1886, where the echoes of the past are as real and alive as the beating of their hearts. Together, in this forgotten time and place, they must face the truth -- about their heritage... and their desire.

Merlin's Kiss


Stephanie Burke - 2003
    Life just isn't fair She was supposed to be the next Queen of the Britons when she retrieved Excalibur from the stone Merlin knows the world isn't ready for a Queen, so to complete her destiny Brieana is placed under a sleep-spell. Only a noble knight, one equal to her in strength and courage, can awaken her. The Present. Chasing dracks is hard work. But nothing prepared Kerian, ruler of Mirage, for the greatest surprise of all.a sleeping, naked woman falling at his feet during a hunt. He soon learns that she is from another time; the world that she knew is gone and the world where she now lives is fraught with hidden dangers and perils. The Future. Brieana discovers that in order to fulfill her destiny, she must do more than fall in love with the most perfect man that she has ever seen. She must go on a quest to reclaim Excalibur and with Kerian's help, end the menace of evil that threatens their happiness.