Enchantment: Hope Chest (Ballad Romances) [Paperback]

Pam McCutcheon (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Zebra (June 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0821769065
• ISBN-13: 978-0821769065
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,360,380 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Magical and enchanting -- Very highly recommended, June 28, 2001

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C. Penn "WordWeaving" (Greenville, SC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Enchantment: Hope Chest (Ballad Romances) (Paperback)

Gina Charles sold her dog training business, sublet her apartment, and cut all ties to her former life so she could marry the man of her dreams. Then, the day before the wedding, at the rehearsal with the entire wedding party as witness, she found her fiancé and her maid of honor making like minks in the back seat of the limo. Worse, bad things always come in threes. First the wedding fiasco. Then she finds a ghost in her room when she escapes to the solitude of a Hope Springs, Virginia at a luxurious Victorian hotel. But the third bad thing is a doozy when she goes back in time!

Drake Maton finds the afterlife tedious. Still lingering in Hope Springs, no one until Gina comes along can see him, so she must be the key to ending one hundred and sixteen years of limbo. Drake convinces Gina to accompany him to the sight of his death, where they discover a hope chest among the moldering remains of the Chesterfield hotel. Inside the chest are a broken neck chain, a pair of severed handcuffs, a sheriff's badge, and a dented brass nameplate. When Gina picks up an old dueling pistol, blackened by fire with the grip half melted, something about it intrigued her. Before she can put the pistol down, she felt light-headed. When she awakens, Gina finds herself surrounded by women in bustles in the year 1885. The fashions are abysmal, the demands upon women sexist, and opportunities for return to the year 2001 nonexistent. And now she's got to convince the very alive Drake that he's in danger.

ENCHANTMENT combines the best of time travel with superb romantic elements with enchanting results. Intrigue, danger, and a magic hope chest bring together two strong willed, volatile characters with delightful results. This whimsical tale is one of the most convincing time travel romances I've yet to encounter, coming very highly recommended.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars enjoyable book 1st in a series, May 12, 2002

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Brenda Condit "satinskper" (Albuquerque, NM USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Enchantment: Hope Chest (Ballad Romances) (Paperback)

This is the first book in the Hope Chest series. I had read the 3rd book, "Grand Design" first before I found out it was a series. I really enjoy these books. They have excitment, mystery, passion and humor. All the must have ingredients for a great book. The other books in the series are "Fire With Fire" and "Stolen Hearts" There is a fifth book but I don't have that title as of yet.

This story starts off in modern day with our heroine, Gina running away to nurse her wounds after she discovers her fiance making love to her best friend on the eve of her wedding. She ends up in a town called Hope Springs. There she meets our hero or at least his ghost. Drake Manton died in 1885 but is somehow haunting the small hotel she's in. She is the only person who can see him. He has no idea how he died and asks for her help.
When they discover that he died in a fire at the historic Chesterfield Hotel they go to the ruins only to find a chest filled with several items. When gina picks up the melted gun she is transported back to 1885. She has to make a living in the past and unlock the mystery of Drakes death and keep him from dying and she can go back to her own time. The thing is that she really falls for Drake and he for her so the questing is will she go if she gets the chance? I really enjoyed the suspence of finding out.

I look forward to other books in this series and other by this author.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Time-Travel, September 10, 2002

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This review is from: Enchantment: Hope Chest (Ballad Romances) (Paperback)

Drake and Gina's story is a really fun time travel, and part of a great series. Gina is, thank heavens, a modern woman who doesn't get stuck in some of the more tired cliches of the past, and Drake isn't one of those alpha heroes that you want to bop over the head. I love how it's his ghost that draws Gina back into the past, too. Why can't *I* check into hotel rooms like that? I highly recommend ENCHANTMENT, and the whole Hope Chest series.