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A Husband in Time (Silhouette, Fortune's Children)

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Disappointed does not even begin to cover how I feel about this book. Almost always I give a book in the Fortunes Children series a four or five star rating simply because I love the series. However, A Husband in Time is a book that I can not believe is apart of this series. Jane and her young son Cody inherit an old house from Jane's grandma Kate. The last thing Jane expects is a man to show up from 1897. Thats right Zach, this intelligent scientist plans to go back in time so that he can keep his son Benjamin from getting sick, but instead accidently goes into the future and arrives in the year 1997. Jane wants to help Zach, but if she does it could redo all of history and Jane may lose her son Cody. I suppose this is supposed to be a timeless love story. Even 'dead' Kate was aware of the time traveling Zach. In my opinion, this story made a joke of the other books. No offense to Maggie Shayne, who is an excellent writer. I am not objecting to the story, its more that I do not believe that it fits in with the Fortune's Children series.

I recently read a Husband in Time, by Maggie Shayne, and while I found the plot unique, and the dialogue well-written, this story failed for me about halfway through when the romance was hijacked by the heroine's small son 'Cody.' I am not opposed to children being in romance novels, but, I hate it when the romantic plot is subsumed by other characters. In this case, the "Cody attempts to rescue Benjamin" subplot got a little old.

Still, I liked Zach, and enjoyed his dialogue and the attraction between the heroine and himself seemed genuine. I'm giving this 3 stars. I would've liked to see more of the hero and heroine and less of the children's antics.

Good character detail but I found it upsetting at the end of the book that Jane's grandmother knew about the time travel aspect.