The Bride Price (Civil War Brides Series) [Kindle Edition]

Tracey Jane Jackson (Author)

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Product Description

Is love timeless?
Does only one true love exist for each person?
Can the course of history be changed in order to save a future generation?

Sophie Ford, awaiting a heart transplant, thought she was sleeping in the arms of her beloved husband, Jamie. However, she has woken to find herself in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 1863, without explanation as to how she got there, or where her husband is.

Taking refuge with a doctor and his family, she finds herself in a volatile relationship with their neighbor, Richard Madden. His expectations and desires become difficult to ignore, and Sophie must find a way to hold off his pursuit.

She rejoices when a soldier, looking identical to Jamie, arrives. Although he claims he doesn't know her, she's convinced he's her husband and sets out to make him remember. Sophie races against time as she faces increasing pressure from Richard, who threatens their chance to reunite.

Can she break through Jamie's barriers and bring his memory back? And once found, can their love survive living in a different century?

About the Author

Tracey was born and raised in New Zealand, and that's where her love of horses was formed. Her grandfather taught her to ride at four years old, and she couldn't get enough.

Her love and passion for Abraham Lincoln and the entire Civil War era might have come from her American father, however, he lays no claim to influencing her. Tracey's mother used to tell her she was simply born in the wrong place in the wrong time. 

Tracey hasn't always wanted to write. It took her a long time to get started, but now she doesn't seem to be able to stop, the joy of escaping to the 1860s is too much fun.

She's been happily married and gooey in love with her husband for sixteen years. They live in the Pacific Northwest with their two sons.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 444 KB
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B003R0LNH4
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (49 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #673 Free in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Free in Kindle Store)
  • #3 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Fiction > Genre Fiction > Family Saga

More About the Author

Tracey was born and raised in New Zealand, and that's where her love of horses was formed. Her grandfather taught her to ride at four years old, and she couldn't get enough.

Her love and passion for Abraham Lincoln and the entire Civil War era might have come from her American father, however, he lays no claim to influencing her. Tracey's mother used to tell her she was simply born in the wrong place in the wrong time.

Tracey hasn't always wanted to write. It took her a long time to get started, but now she doesn't seem to be able to stop, the joy of escaping to the 1860s is too much fun.

She's been happily married and gooey in love with her husband for seventeen years. They live in the Pacific Northwest with their two sons.

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A fabulous time travel book! I couldn't put it down - go back to the civle war era!, March 16, 2011

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Brenda V. Rupp "Dance Alert" (Madison Heights) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Bride Price (Paperback)

I absolutely love books that have some time travel in them. The characters in the book are in one place and time and something happens and wham they wake up somewhere else compltely.....

That is what happened with Sophie Ford, she is waiting for a heart transplant and is pretty sick, she is lying on her bed with the love of her life her husband Jamie and the next thing she knows she wakes up and she is in 1863 with a man named Richard, she is right in the middle of the fight between the north and south....

Her husband is transported but when he wakes up, it is in another place completely and he has no idea who he is or that he is married. He doesn't remember anything of the past or anything about the war.
Sophie was obsessed with that time period and knew everything about it, and she still remembers. What heppens when Jamie eventually makes it across her path but has no idea who she is.....

Is she able to convince him he is her husband and what does she do with the man who wants her for his own and will do anything to make sure she becomes his...

I stayed up last night reading this book and finished it today. I loved it. I'm happy to know there are more books coming out in the Civil War Bride Series...

From the back of the book: Sophie Ford thought she was sleeping in the arms of her beloved husband, Jamie. However, she has woken to find herself in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 1863, without explanation as to how she got there, or where her husband is. She rejoices when a soldier, looking identical to Jamie, arrives. Can she break through Jamie's barriers and bring his memory back?

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Boring, December 3, 2011

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J. Perez "Take a Mile Media" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Bride Price (Civil War Brides Series) (Kindle Edition)

The book had a good premise but poor follow-through. After the heroine, Sophie, makes that initial jump in time, it seemed like the author didn't know what to say to fill the pages so she repeated the same sequence over and over again. When the hero, Jamie, finally arrives, that sequence changes and then that sequence repeats over and over again.

When someone in the story asks a Time defender to explain time travel, she replies something like, "We don't have time to get into it right now. Suffice to say it works." Uh, then why mention it? It made me feel like the writer couldn't explain it so she used a cop-out. It was VERY annoying.

Then there are the gaps in logic.

***SPOILER***
--Why could Jamie travel in time and still have his scars and tattoos, yet Sophie's failing heart be miraculously healed and a nonissue?
--Why did Jamie lose his memory but Sophie didn't?
--Why did these so-called Time Defenders choose a lone woman to "fix" a Civil War inequity when women in this era were restricted to their homes and/or under a man's authority? She had no political clout. No power. No influence. For that matter, she was homeless and completely dependent upon others for the very clothes on her back.
--Why didn't these Defenders just use Jamie since he evidently "remembered" important stuff that saved lives in the Gettysburg fight?
--And then there was the ending: Jamie & Sophie were computer geeks and city folk so how would "giving them land" help them survive in 1860's Harrisburg? They wouldn't have the knowledge or skills necessary to do anything with the land!
***END SPOILER***

As far as I could tell, Sophie was useless: an emotional mess most of the book-biting off people's heads for no reason or weeping, and constantly tripping or falling, or getting injured for this or that reason. Ugh.

Despite all the "drama," I never felt a thing for the heroine, the hero, the nemesis, the villian or the plot. This was a really poorly executed, researched or thought-out book.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, February 18, 2011

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Mary Jane Kail "Jane" (Sebastian, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Bride Price (Paperback)

Usually I don't review a book less that 4*. Had I read this book before I ordered the other three I would not have purchased the others. I can only hope that Ms. Jackson's sequels to this get better. Since I have them I will read them but this was so disappointing. I am an avid time-travel reader. The reviews on this book were excellent which more or less prompted me to purchase all four without any hesitation.

The story itself is excellent but the characters are shallow & without substance. The main character Sophie Ford is one of the most self-centered whinny I have seen in a long time. The longer the story went on the worse it got to where I was ready to pitch the book against the wall.

It got some better when Jamie went back to join her but his "baby" this and "baby" that soon got tiresome.

I so wanted to enjoy this book because there have been few time-travels written lately & it sounded so good. I definitely enjoy this time period...1860's.

I do commend the writer for writing a love story without the extremely descriptive love scenes that hinge on the vulger side which seems to be so prevelent in some of the books written lately. I had just finished one that was so bad I wouldn't even bother to review it.

Again, I sincerely hope that the next three are better because right now I consider this a big waste of fifty bucks.