My Timeswept Heart (Heartfire Romance) [Paperback]

Amy J. Fetzer (Author)

Book Description

Series: Heartfire Romance | Publication Date: October 1, 1993

After leaping over the rail of a cruiser, Olympic-trained gymnast Tess Renfrew awakens in the arms of a dashing eighteenth-century pirate, and together they defy the odds of time. Original.

Product Details

• Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: Zebra (October 1, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0821743406
• ISBN-13: 978-0821743409
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 3.9 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #561,081 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is the best way to get introduced to Fetzer's work., February 3, 1998

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D. Cofresi-Terrero "Diana" (Bronx, New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: My Timeswept Heart (Heartfire Romance) (Paperback)

You'll cry, laugh, and have the best time of your life reading Timeswept Heart. The heroine, Tess, is courageous, funny, the girl you want to be. You'll fall in love with Dane, the hero, and his crew of marines are hysterical. Fetzer takes you on a ride that you don't want to get off. Contact the publisher to reprint the book. It won't be a mistake.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars COOLEST BOOK IN THE WORLD, April 10, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: My Timeswept Heart (Heartfire Romance) (Paperback)

Tess, in helping a friend, is sent back in time to Dane and it just gets better from there. I wish all romance novel were like this!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Read!, September 23, 2008

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schnuppi "*katie*" (Wherever the Military sends me) - See all my reviews

This review is from: My Timeswept Heart (Heartfire Romance) (Paperback)

I had this oldie in my TBR for quite a while and I finally got around to reading it. And I'm so glad I did, especially because the beginning of the book is so great!


It starts with the heroine, Tess, breaking into a house to steal evidence from someone blackmailing her best friend. She barely makes it out of the house and is being followed by some guys trying to kill her. In order to get rid of the hired guns she takes her friends cruise ticket and escapes on the cruise liner. Unfortunately the guys catch up with her and she has to jump off the ship. She gets rescued by a dolphin just before drowning and the dolphin drags her through a time portal. She gets send back to the year 1789.


Captain Dane Blackwell finds the dolphin and her unconscious body and rescues her even though is crew isn't thrilled. At all. Woman on a ship is bad news, ya know . He nurses her back to health and is pretty much attracted to her from the very beginning. She wakes up and what follows are probably some of the funniest scenes I've ever read. Tess thinks Dane is some eccentric rich boy who pays some guys to act on his little fantasy cruise and Dane thinks she must be some poor, mentally unstable girl who got send away from her family, with all her talking about freezers and phones. I know this whole plot line isn't new but it's by far the funniest one I've read so far.


Dane and Tess have an instant attraction towards each other. However, Dane is too much of a gentleman to take advantage of the "poor abandoned girl" and I really liked his character. He is the typical alpha when it comes to his crew and his ship but he is so sweet and caring when it comes to Tess. And Tess is a pretty funny girl, full of life and with a smart mouth.


The book started as a five-star read but I had to downgrade it to only four-and-a-half stars after ¼ of the book. That had two reasons:

1. Tess has a TSTL moment. I forgave her for that because the outcome was good and I could understand why she did it but it still annoyed me a little.
2. Tess started to talk to Dane in front of his crew and friends in a way that wasn't appropriate IMHO. I mean its one thing to talk to him in privacy like that. I would never talk to my husband in front of his soldiers like that because it's disrespectful and I don't want that his soldiers think he is completely whipped but I can say whatever the heck I want when we are alone. I hope you understand what I mean. What bugged me even more is that Dane let her get away with it. He could have pulled her aside and tell her to talk to him in private and not in front of his crew. It made his character a little unbelievable because I couldn't believe that a man from this time would have dealed with this kind of attitude.


I had to downgrade the book again later to "only" four stars because Tess had her second TSTL moment and I couldn't find any good reason for her behavior this time. Tess also turned into some sort of super-woman using her knowledge to help Dane on his mission. It wasn't really a bad thing but it pushed Dane a little bit in the background. He didn't get many moments to shine and show is capability because Tess was so quick saving the day with her knowledge.


I loved the book because it completely focused on the relationship between Dane and Tess and the plot was only in the background. I also liked that the time travel was the only problem the two had to deal with. I think traveling in time brings enough problems with it so the H/H don't need to deal with all the other problems as well. In most other time travel books I feel like the issues that come with time traveling are pretty much ignored and that bugs me. Dane was on a revenge mission to find his sister's murderer and many other writers would have portrait him as a tortured hero. Instead he didn't let his revenge interfere with his feelings for Tess and I loved him for that. Tess also had a pretty tough past and she could have been loaded with issues. But she only had a couple of buttons that Dane accidentally pushed.