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Voyager: (Outlander, Book 3) by Diana Gabaldon | Summary & Analysis


Book*Sense - 2015
    Following both immediately upon the end of and twenty years after the previous volume, Dragonfly in Amber, the novel reiterates the series’ time-travel premise as its protagonist, Claire Beauchamp Randall Fraser, travels through time and back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean in the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. Britain’s empire-building is explored more thoroughly in the novel, and the seeds for much of the later events in the series are sown in the gripping and substantial read. Jamie finds himself labeled as a criminal and forced, after incarceration, to operate under a series of assumed identities. Claire resolves her life in the twentieth century and returns to her husband’s side after a twenty-year separation. Once together again, the two become embroiled not in the better-known historical particulars but in a complex family drama that takes them throughout Scotland and the West Indies before leaving them on the shores of what would become the United States. This companion to Voyager also includes the following: • Book Review • Story Setting Analysis • Story elements you may have missed as we decipher Gabaldon’s novel • Clear, concise description and analysis of personalities • Summary of the text, with some analytical comments interspersed • Thought Provoking /or Discussion Questions for both Readers & Book Clubs • Discussion & Analysis of Themes, Symbols… • And Much More! This Analysis fills the gap, making you understand more while enhancing your reading experience.

A Yellowstone Promise


Peggy L. Henderson - 2014
    No longer the reckless delinquent he used to be, he has made many life-altering decisions. Providing for his new family has become his number one priority. Faced with the unthinkable, he'll do whatever it takes to save the ones he loves, even if it means crossing the boundaries of time. When a strange elder reveals a shocking secret and demands a promise in exchange for his help, Chase doesn't hesitate to meet the old man's request. Thrown back into a world where he no longer belongs, Chase confronts old demons and faces new challenges. Will the lessons he's learned in the past be enough to save his family in the future? ***Events in Yellowstone Promise take place after Yellowstone Redemption (Book 2 in the Yellowstone Romance Series), but also after Yellowstone Deception (Book 5 in the Yellowstone Romance Series). Although each full-length book in the Yellowstone Romance Series can be read as a stand-alone story, the series does build on previous books. Here is the recommended order of reading: Yellowstone Heart Song A Yellowstone Christmas (novella) Yellowstone Redemption Yellowstone Awakening Yellowstone Dawn Yellowstone Deception A Yellowstone Promise (novella) A Yellowstone Season of Giving (short story)

Twist of Fate


Kathryn Kaleigh - 2016
    Until she discovers someone is trying to murder her grandfather in his own home. Without warning, she inexplicably steps through a rip in time, finding herself in 1837. The house is the same, yet different. The grandfather clock she had yet to wind… the key in her hand… ticking. The empty fields… overflowing with unpicked cotton. And… there are strangers in her grandfather’s house. And one particular stranger – the brooding, mysterious Charles Becquerel who she finds herself undeniably attracted to. Lost in the past, Erika struggles to get back to her world… she is the only one who can save her grandfather from an untimely death. Will she ultimately choose to return to her own time or to make a life one hundred eighty years in the past with the man who has captured her heart?

Burning Ground (Frontier Time Traveler series, #1)


D.A. Galloway - 2021
    He secures seasonal employment in Yellowstone National Park and embarks on a spiritual journey.Wyoming Territory, 1871: Under a full moon at a sacred thermal area, Graham finds himself in Yellowstone a century earlier - one year before it was established as a national park. He joins the Hayden Expedition which was commissioned to explore the region.Although a military escort provides protection for the explorers, the cavalry’s notorious lieutenant threatens Graham. His perilous journey through the future park is marred by a horrific tragedy in a geyser basin, a grizzly bear attack, and an encounter with hostile Blackfeet Indians.Graham falls in love with Makawee, a beautiful Crow woman who serves as a guide. As the expedition nears its conclusion, Graham is faced with an agonizing decision.Does he stay in the previous century with the woman he loves or travel back to the future?If you like the historical time travel adventure of Outlander or enjoyed the movie Dances with Wolves, then you'll love Burning Ground!

Timeless Whisper


Sandra E. Sinclair - 2017
    If that wasn’t bad enough, she reads in a celebrity magazine her childhood sweetheart, who broke her heart five years ago, is getting married. The stress is unbearable, and when she starts hearing voices whispering for her to right a wrong she has no recollection of making, she’s sure she is going mad. Things go from weird to completely unbelievable when an innocent trip to a diner leaves her stranded in Heartsbridge in the year 1880. Lance Thornton suspects his neighbors helped his fiancee leave him at the altar, so he’s determined to ruin them. On his way to the bank to insist they foreclose on them for a loan he made, he bumps into Raven, mistaking her for his runaway bride, Charlotte. He decides he’s not letting her get away this time, and refuses to listen to any of her claims that she isn’t who he thinks she is, and that she is from the future. He’s going to make this woman pay for embarrassing him in front of the entire town. Can Raven convince Lance he's seeking revenge on the wrong woman?

The Ghost and Miss Hallam


Barbara Bartholomew - 2012
    Lynne Hallam, working hard at researching the journals of Maud Bailey Sandford at the late author's isolated ranch home in the red hills has an unexpected visitor that nobody else can see. In his last minutes after a terrible accident, Moss has demanded not justice, but grace from the universe and is convinced that the lovely Lynne has been sent to him to balance the scales of an unfair fate.

Ancient Echoes


Barbara Monahan - 2011
    She recieves a mysterious letter telling her that she alone must come to Scotland to rennovate a castle which is now in ruins. After traveling to the Highlands, Sam learns there are many rumors about Rosestone Castle, all involving the paranormal. She becomes caught up in a timeless love affair with an immortal warrior, finds herself the object of a 500 yr. old curse, and travels back in time to the 1600's, to finally face the dark one who has cursed her and her castle. In doing so, Samantha discovers her prior life and involvement with the proud Clan who lived there during that time.

Highland Passage


J.L. Jarvis - 2014
    On her way home from another blind date arranged by her well-meaning sister, she is caught in a snowstorm. While maneuvering the twists and turns of the icy road, Mackenzie loses control of her car and crashes into the rocky hillside.When a rugged Scotsman pulls her to safety, Mackenzie is sure she must be hallucinating. Through the storm's fury, he takes her to shelter in one of the mysterious stone chambers scattered throughout Putnam County, New York. Snowbound, Mackenzie must wait out the storm with this strange, kilted man who claims to be a Highlander from eighteenth-century Scotland. By morning, she not only believes Ciarán MacRae's story but has also lost her heart just in time for him to kiss her, promise his love--and then vanish.Unable to forget him, Mackenzie returns again and again to the stone chamber, hoping to unlock the secret of Ciarán's disappearance. But if she does, she will have to decide whether her fierce feelings for Ciarán are worth abandoning all that she knows to travel through time to find her gallant Scotsman.The Highland Passage novels are stand-alone books that may be read in any order.A Note on the Content: The Highland Passage romances fall on the sweet end of the romance spectrum. Although not explicit, they may contain sexual situations and mild profanity.

In Time for Christmas


Heather Blanton - 2013
    God has one waiting … a hundred years in the past. In Time for Christmas -- a Novella, is the story of Charlene Williams, a woman trapped in a dangerously abusive marriage. Disappointed that God hasn’t gotten her out of it, or even hears her prayers at all, she has shut down emotionally. When husband Dale becomes suspicious of her daily chats with the mailman, he whisks her out of town and abandons her on his family’s ranch—an isolated, dilapidated place no one has lived on for over forty years. With the promise that he’ll be back in a few days, he knocks her unconscious and leaves.Charlene wakes up on the ranch—a hundred years in the past. Almost instantly she is drawn to Billy Page, Dale’s great grandfather. The connection is powerful and mysterious, but should she risk falling in love with a ghost? What’s going on here? Is Charlene dead, dreaming, in a coma, or simply experiencing a gift from her heavenly father? She’ll learn one thing for certain: God does see the tears of his children.

The Key in the Loch


Blanche Dabney - 2019
     History student Rachel Fisher has dreamed of the past all her life. When a mysterious box sends her back through time to twelfth century Scotland she thinks her dreams have come true, especially when she falls straight into the arms of a burly Highland Laird who vows to protect her from the evil that's chasing her. Grizzled warrior Cam MacGregor knows one thing. He must not fall for the beguiling lass from the future. Already whispers are spreading among the clan. He has taken her in because she's bewitched him. The omens are coming true. The Sassanach does not belong. She must be sacrificed. In a world that wants her dead, Rachel’s only hope lies with the brawny Highlander. As their mutual desire grows into an all-consuming need, Rachel is forced into an impossible choice. Save herself and run from the man she’s come to love or sacrifice her own life to save his clan from oblivion? The Key in the Loch is the spellbinding first book in the clean and sweet Clan MacGregor series. If you like rugged heroes, passionate heroines, and time travel romance with a happy ending, you’re sure to enjoy this brand-new series. Enjoy a vacation in the Medieval Highlands by picking up a copy today.

Love a Highlander


Rebecca Preston - 2020
    Confused and struggling to understand where and when she is, accusations of witchcraft follow her. The only one who believes her and seems to care about her plight is the handsome Laird Cameron.Cameron MacLeod is shocked when the feisty dark-haired woman shows him the proof she’s from the future, but there’s something about her that draws him closer. He does his best to protect her from those who want answers she can’t give, but when the son of a rival Laird is murdered, all fingers point to the newcomer, the woman who holds his heart.With the clans on the brink of war and everyone suspicious of Cameron and the new woman in his life, Maria must use her skills to clear her name and cement a place for herself in the past that is now her future.Love A Highlander is the first book in the A Highlander Across Time series, perfect for fans of brooding heroes, intrepid heroines, and page-turning time-travel romance. Grab your copy today, and enter the exciting world of Love A Highlander!

The Wayfarer


Jennifer L. Hayes - 2016
    Following her move from Los Angeles to a quaint English village with her fiancé Ben, all that changes when a violent electrical storm whisks her one hundred and sixty years into the past. Trapped in Victorian England, Emma is determined to find a way home, back to her fiancé and the life he’s mapped out for them. That is until she meets the captivating Lord Henry Drake, son to the Earl of Pembrooke. Handsome and gallant, he quickly challenges her understanding of love and duty. But Emma is hiding a terrible secret. She knows of Lord Henry’s untimely death, a date which is fast approaching. And before long, she will be forced to choose between saving the man she loves and returning to a life that seems so far away.

Time to Save a Cowboy (Western Time Travel Romance, #1)


Niki Mitchell - 2018
     Dusty Mann is determined to buy his own ranch. He doesn’t need a modern, straightforward woman to barrel into his life or knock his plans off track But Mia steals his heart—and then claims she’s from the future.

Varden's Lady


Maren Smith - 2006
    So when another woman burst through the clouds, leaving behind a dying body, Mallory leapt back to Earth, to a second chance for life. Duke Varden had had his fill of treacherous women. His lovely wife had killed what little love he'd had, seven long years before. But when she suffered a mishap giving birth, suddenly she was not her usual, viscous self. Now she was laughing, calling herself Mallory, and turning his life upside-down. But Varden refused to be drawn in by the same deceptive charms that had fooled him once before. Mallory was having the time of her life jogging through the castle, gambling with the guards and gradually gaining the love of the stranger who was her husband. So what if she had to suffer a spiteful mother-in-law, an evil brother-in-law and a husband full of icy condemnation. Wasn't winning the love of a lifetime worth all that?

This Time For Keeps


Kathleen Kane - 1998
    Since then, it has been one freak accident after another. Now after the indignity of dying in a bowling ball accident while on a date with a cute new lawyer in her firm, Tracy Hill has had enough.However, Heaven's "Resettlement Committee" has other plans. For her ninth life, she is promised health, wealth, and absolutely no chance at love, this time around. But they leave out one tiny, little detail: she's being sent to live in Montana, on a cattle ranch in 1875. At least they got the No More Love part right. Seth Murdoch is dangerously attractive-- if you like the rugged cowboy type. Thankfully, Tracy doesn't.It's soon clear, though, that this thoroughly modern woman and this nineteenth-century cowboy share more than growing desire, spitfire backtalk, and nights of sleepless longing. They share a star-crossed eternity. And maybe-- just maybe-- this time around, love... and Tracy, are here to stay.