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Time After Time

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Liz moved into the small house in hopes of getting contracts for events with the upper class neighbors. But things got strange the moment she found the old trunk in her attic with letters that told of a great love lost a century earlier. Liz began hearing chimes. Then the ghost kept appearing.

Jack Eastman was the most arrogant and stuck up person Liz had ever had the displeasure of meeting. His mansion was connected to her land, but seperated by rusty, age old, barbed wire!

She accepts his contract for a birthday party, which ends in disaster. Then for a picnic. The picnic is sabotaged by ants. It's saved only by fast reaction by Liz. At the same time, someone is also making accidents happen at Jack's ship yard.

Jack finds Liz volunteering at a shelter for battered women one day and the two plan a fund raiser for the shelter. Word leaks out that PRINCESS DIANA MAY SHOW UP. It is to be a masquerade. With that rumor, ticket sales soar.

***Wonderful story. Did the Princess show up? I'm not telling.***

I'm wary of what might turn out to be a sappy romance, especially if the dialogue is poorly written. On the other hand, I'm a sucker for fiction stories having to do with ghosts, reincarnation, time travel, etc, and romance is a pretty big genre for those factors.

You've got the plot from the other reviewer. I'll add this (or you may have guessed it anyway) - they fall in love, of course, except that each one is sure the other one doesn't feel the same way or at the least, isn't worth bothering with. So of course we've got all sorts of complications alternating with romance but thank heavens no bodice ripping smarmy love scenes.

The ghost definitely factors into the Jack/Liz equation, as does Liz's friend Tori, aka Judy Maroney - or maybe it's vice versa. Judy had a severe accident that almost killed her, and subsequently became Tori and created a whole new persona, who also figures into the whole reincarnation/ghost thing. (It works much better than I make it sound).

So it was an easy read, entertaining, and not insulting. I cared about the characters, I rooted for the obvious, and I was charmed by both the ghost and Tori. And when Liz finally..........well, maybe you'll have to read the book and find that out too - along with whether or not Princess Di showed up at the party!

I have to say, I LOVED "Time After Time!" I know I should admire the main character Liz, (and I do) but oh god, I am in love with Jack! Just kidding (NOT). This book was entertaining, sexy, (oh Jack), loved the play between the past and present (I do not discount reincarnation or ghost), great characters, loved Victoria/Judy and the Eastman Family--we all have that kind of family (wealthy beyond) in every town. Newport just has so many!!! So enjoyed getting acquainted with Newport. I think that is where a book should take you, to a place you are not familiar with, but a place you now know.

This is the first book by Antoinette Stockenberg that I have read and it will not be my last. Can't wait to open my next book by this author.

A predictable, light, intersting read. Liked the New England setting and the crossover between classes. It is a clean book and just enjoyable.

I liked the concept of a "Party Planner clashing with a Party Pooper". It sounded like a lot of fun, and the story delivered. Liz Coppersmith is the kind of level-headed heroine I look for, someone who can pick herself up after a knockdown (her husband abandoned her and her week-old baby) and keep on going. But that experience, plus her mother's well-meaning if discouraging advice never to get her hopes up, has left Liz leery of men.

Enter Jack Eastman. His father is a cheat and a terrible role model, so Jack is leery of commitment. Jack is from Newport's upper crust, Liz is from its working class. Then there's the ghost of Jack's grandfather who shows up at awkward times; he wants to make amends for walking away from his one true love back in the Gilded Age. Liz has a close friend Tori, who's taken on an entire new identity after suffering a tragic loss. There's also a box of old letters, a murder mystery and a present-day villain. Even with all that going on, the story just rolled along. Romantic and charming.

The other three reviews of this book summed it up perfectly! I totally agree with them, and certainly can't say it better. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I looked forward to continuing the story every day when I got home from work. I admit, I didn't get a lot done until I finished it. The characters were diverse, and such an interesting combination of fun! LOVED it!

I hoped that the book would live up to its reviews, but I found the characters stiff, silly, whiney and/or disagreeable. I read about a third of the book, but didn't care for the author's style (I don't care about the color of everything Liz wore) and found the character development thin. Too bad.