I need to catch up on my reading journal, I've read 2 or 3 books I haven't told you about. I've start with a great time travel.



A TIME FOR LOVE grabbed me the first chapter as the heroine Elizabeth Mackenzie is sitting in her dentist chair having a tooth pulled while sniffing laughing gas. She is enjoying the floating feeling when she hears a roaring sound and then everyone disappears from the room. As she gets up she walks out into a wild west town. Believing she is hallucinating she goes with two cowboys take her believing she is their boss's proxy bride. With a mouthful of gauze she slurs her words so when she finally meet the boss, Jordan McCabe, the proxy groom he thinks she is a blubbering idiot who wears men's trouser with a paper bib.

Jordan is picking his bride up in Wichita on his way back home to his Texas ranch driving 500 head of cattle. When he sees Cynthia/Elizabeth is disappointed she isn't what she claimed in all the letter she wrote him. He believed her to be a quiet southern belle but this woman slurred her words, dresses in men's clothing, then grabbed a bottle of whiskey downing it yelling how much pain she was in. Now she is passed out under the wagon.

When Elizabeth runs a high fever Jordan decides to leave the cattle drive and head for a sodbuster's house hope they will let her rest and recover there. But Jordan and Elizabeth stay with the family is filled with violence and dead as the abuses father is killed and the mother is guilt ridden kills herself leaving two innocence children, Julie and Cory.

Elizabeth vows to find the perfect home for these two love starved children as she makes Jordan load their pitiful few possessions into the wagon. As Elizabeth excepts she is living in the past she falls in love with Jordan and the 2 children. But when Jordan finds out in the next town that Cynthia turned back to Georgia and the woman who is claiming to be his bride is nothing but a liar and thief he wants nothing to do with her and decides an orphanage is the best place for the children.

Elizabeth fights him every step of the way back to Texas through 3 states and a long cattle drive. There are some wonderful emotional parts as the children bond to both Jordan and Elizabeth. Elizabeth has to find out why she has been sent back to the past, she believes it is to find a loving home for Cory and Julie, know how they both feel living with an abusive father.

I love this story because; cattle drives, a strong heroine, sexy cowboy, and children that need love are some of my favorites. There is some very funny parts then some that having you reaching for a hanky. The ending of the book is beautiful giving it perfect closure. This is my first Constance O'Day-Flannery, I've ordered a few more of her TT and hopefully they will be arriving in the mail this coming week.

A TIME FOR LOVE Rated A
Constance O'Day-Flannery
2/1991
Rom/TT-Frontier
The story of a fiercely independent woman whose wounded heart has made her give up on finding Mr. Right -- until a rough and ready cowboy from the past shows her how wonderful true love can be...

Elizabeth Mackenzie had decided long ago that happily-ever after was just an illusion. Her career was what mattered, and the ambition that had carried her through many lonely Saturday nights brought her West to land a new account for her communications firm. Then the force of a tornado took her even further -- back in time to 1876... and into the arms of handsome Texas rancher Jordan McCabe.

Mistaken for Jordan's mail-order bride, Elizabeth soon discovered a passion powerful enough to make her believe in love. But could she sacrifice all she had known in her former life for a fragile dream that could vanish at any given moment? As she struggled to understand the choices that lay ahead, Elizabeth came face to face with her own destiny... and the desires that tempted her very soul.