The Forever Bride (Timeswept) [Mass Market Paperback]

Evelyn Rogers (Author)

Book Description

Series: Timeswept | Publication Date: February 1997

Loving a romantic Scottish fairy tale so much that she insists upon getting married in Scotland, Meagan Butler is transported back in time and finds herself re-creating the events of the story of her dreams. Original.

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Meagan Butler, an almost thirty year old advertising exec from New York, accompanied her fiancee, William, to Scotland for a business trip and they decide to marry at a small kirk at Thistledown Castle. They meet in the kirk to exchange their vows, but Meagan needs some encouragement, so she sits in a pew and recites three times a line from The Forever Bride, a romance novel she has with her. The Gaelic phrase translates to love of my heart. She feels a bit dizzy but returns to the alter just in time to hear her name and reply, I do. When her husband thoroughly kisses her, she knows he is not William and when she opens her eyes, she faints. Robert Cameron had never met his bride before the nuptials. He carries her up to his chamber and looks her over, intimately. He sees her strange underclothes and is very interested in making his bride his wife, but not while she is unconscious. When Meagan awakes, she has to be convinced that it is 1765 and he thinks she is crazy, especially when she tells him the truth. Robert tells her about his bride, a young Irish girl named Meagan Anne MacSorley who he intended to marry for her hefty dowry in order to help his people and to restore Thistledown Castle. But Meagan the Younger had different ideas and she runs away on her wedding day. So now Robert must find the missing bride, but he is falling in love with his temporary one . . . and she with him. The search for the young Meagan goes on as she has proved competent enough to elude them for several days. In the meantime, Robert and Meagan come to the conclusion to enjoy whatever time they have together. They have captured each others hearts and have satisfied each others needs beyond their wildest expectations, which makes it all the more difficult for Meagan to leave. She believes she must return to her own time as Robert needs the dowry and therefore can't stay married to her. William is determined to find Meagan as he is certain something dreadful has happened to her, which it has. She has several dangerous experiences such as a near rape and murder. Ironically, it is they young Meagan who finds Robert and he is able to save his Meagan while the young one escapes once again, but not for long. Convinced that her disappearance has something to do with the book, William returns to Scotland and the kirk, reciting the same line three times. What happens then will change all their lives forever! It seems like a lot of time travel stories take place in Scotland, and this one made me wish it could really be true....and I'd be on the next plane!If time travel were an option, it's romances like The Forever Bride that would have millions of readers going back in time to search for the love of their hearts! Terrific story! Great characters! Ohhhh to be able to go through time and find my own Robert Cameron! Ms. Rogers is a topnotch storyteller! She whets your appetite for more!Gloria Miller -- Copyright © 1994-97 Literary Times, Inc. All rights reserved -- From Literary Times

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Leisure Books (February 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0843941774
• ISBN-13: 978-0843941777
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,126,674 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Started out good but then became boring., June 11, 2002

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Brenda Condit "satinskper" (Albuquerque, NM USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Forever Bride (Timeswept) (Mass Market Paperback)

I liked the start of this book. The idea of the "Forever Bride" story is very beautiful and heart warming. I thought the plot of this story that the modern woman, Meagan, goes to Scotland to get married in an old church where the "Forever Bride" tale is said to have taken place, was unique. There she is suddenly flung back in time and ends up marrying, not her modern day fiance, but Robert Cameron, the Laird of Thistledown Castle. Robert has never met his bride to be so is shocked to see that she is not as young as he thought her to be, nor as innocent. He can't deny that he is attracted to her and tries to convince her that she is just as attracted to him. He soon realizes that she is not his real bride and together they set out to find the missing bride. The story is very good for a while and really held my interest but then it started to drag. I put this book down several times and it took days to finish it. I think the ideas of the book were good but not really brought to life. The characters were a bit lacking also.
I wish this had been a better book.