Timeless Desire: An Outlander Love Story [Kindle Edition]

Gwyn Cready (Author)

Book Description

Two years after losing her husband, overworked librarian Panna Kennedy battles to distract herself from crushing Grief, even as she battles to deal with yet another library budget cut. During a routine search within the library’s lower levels, Panna opens an obscure, pad-locked door and finds herself transported to the magnificent, book-filled quarters of a handsome, eighteenth-century Englishman. She soon recognizes the man as Colonel John Bridgewater, the historic English war hero whose larger-than-life statue loomed over her desk.However, the life of the dashing Bridgewater is not at all what she imagined. He’s under house arrest for betraying England, and now looks upon her—a beautiful and unexpected half-dressed visitor—as a possible spy. Despite bad first impressions (on both sides), Bridgewater nonetheless warms to Panna, and pulls her into his escape—while both their hearts pull the other headlong into their soul-stirring secrets.Very quickly Panna is thrown into a whirlwind of high-stakes intrigue that sweeps her from Hadrian’s Wall to a forbidding stone castle in Scotland. And somewhere in the outland, Panna must decide if her loyalties lie with her dead husband, or with the man whose life now depends on her.Written in her signature style—described as delightfully original, fun and sexy—RITA Award-winning author Gwyn Cready produces yet another lightning-paced, delectable winner of a Time Travel Romance; a genre she has quickly come to master.

Editorial Reviews

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"Gwyn Cready is the master of time travel romance."
—-Royal Reviews

"Cready’s writing is romantic and wickedly witty."
—-Rachel Gibson, NY Times Bestselling Author

“Cready is an author worth watching."
—Publisher’s Weekly

About the Author

Gwyn Cready is a RITA Award winner (Best Paranormal Romance 2009) and the author of several beloved romances including Tumbling Through Time, Seducing Mr. Darcy, Flirting With Forever, Aching for Always, and A Novel Seduction. Highly regarded by her fans and peers, Gwyn has been called, "the master of time travel romance," and her writing described as "sexy," "delightfully original," and "wickedly witty." Timeless Desire is her latest foray into the time-travel genre and men in kilts. She still finds both eminently satisfying. Gwyn lives in Pittsburgh with her family.

Product Details

• File Size: 496 KB
• Print Length: 384 pages
• Publisher: Astor + Blue Editions (July 18, 2012)
• Language: English
• ASIN: B008LU19AG
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Not Enabled
• Lending: Not Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #367,815 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Another great time travel love July 18, 2012

By Emmy

Format:Kindle Edition

Gwen Cready's Timeless Desire delivers a wonderful time travel heroine to her readers. The modern librarian, Panna, travels to the 1700's to find an irresistible Captain. She saves his life not once but twice. The Captain doesn't trust Panna but under difficult circumstances is forced to trust her more than anyone in his life. The author takes the time for the readers to comprehend each character's personality and gives a detailed understanding of their background and history. Panna and the Captain have a growing romantic interest in each other that is intense from the beginning to the end of the story. I did enjoy the heroine's use of modern vocabulary that women in today's time could only understand and relate to. This novel is upbeat and perky with a mystery involved. Will the heroine stay in 1706 or return to the present day? Will the couple even survive in 1706? Will the captain ever get over his family's denial of him so he can move forward and fall in love? This story contains lots of twist and turns. I highly recommend this book when you want to forget about your daily routine and time travel to the 1700's. Cready delivers a great book for a summer read on the beach or in the airport.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Captivating July 19, 2012

By Aunt Becky

Format:Kindle Edition

I'm new to Gwyn Cready books and this book will keep me coming back for more. I was hooked from the start (I'm a closet librarian)and loved the blend of here and now with there and then. I don't want to give the story away but Pana and John really need to be together whether from across a room or across the centuries. A suspenseful, engaging romance but so much more. Thanks for introducing me to Gwyn. I look forward to reading all of her books.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars time travel romance at it's best July 19, 2012

By Madison W Fairbanks

Format:Kindle Edition

Timeless Desire is Gwyn Creedy's newest time travel romance. In her recurring theme, it's a time travel romance, from present day back to historical Scottish border wars.
Librarian Panna walks through the storage room door into the past.Could it be real? She encounters then the real life image of the man whose statue stands in her very library. Panna has had a secret fantasy about this man for years. Can he live up to her expectations? She is drawn into the controversy and trouble of the times. Bus she has to get back to the library for a blind date. Her friends think her widowed lonely status should be changed. The date is nice, but Panna is distracted and drawn back to the past. She was entrusted with delivering a note to the rebels. What happens if she doesn't deliver it? Will the rebels all be captured or killed? Will her delivery, if she can actually get back to the past, change history?
Action, adventure, a little suspense and romance. A true time travel feel good romance.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars I want to find a secret passageway to the past, too!! July 19, 2012

By BookChickJen

Format:Kindle Edition

I wasn't already hooked on Gwyn Cready's time-travel novels enough, she had to involve a librarian and Scotland! Gwyn has a wonderful way of transporting you to other times and faraway places. I'd love to be like Panna and find another land behind a forgotten door. And to come face-to-face with the living, breathing version of the statue you've been gazing at for years? Swoon-worthy, to say the least! The story had me captivated and I'm hoping, praying, wishing, we don't have to wait too long for another story from Gwyn!!!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars I want a time travelling hero July 18, 2012

By momof3boys

Format:Kindle Edition

Rita Award winner Gwyn Cready has done it again. Her latest novel, Timeless Desire is a devilishly fun romp through time with love, romance, war and passion and all set in present-day Pittsburgh and the early 18th century borderlands of England and Scotland.

Panna Kennedy, a young widow, has just been told her library will face major funding cuts. She's not sure she's ready to dip her foot in the dating world and agrees to be set up with another librarian's friend. As she's waiting for her date to meet her at the library, she ponders how to raise money so she doesn't have to make the cuts necessary for her budget. She sees the statue of the library's benefactor and wonders if there's anything left to sell from his collection. He was the handsome 18th century Viscount and Colonel John Bridgewater, officer in Her Majesty's Militia--an odd benefactor for a library in Pittsburgh. She recalls there may be something, and as she unlocks a door under the stairs, she stumbles upon a portal and enters the chapel of a castle in 18th century England. And, praying in the chapel--it's him, the benefactor, in the flesh. Or is it?

As it happens, he is Captain James Bridgewater, the unrecognized illegitimate, older half-brother to the Viscount. And, his bloodline is half-Scot. Grandson of a powerful clan chief whose castle sits on the Scotland side of Hadrian's Wall. Son of an English general. He is torn between his duties to the army and the rebels who want peace and independence for Scotland. And he happens to be more handsome than his brother. Plus, he has an excellent library. Not only is he engaged in military battle, he has a battle of wills with his brother and father who deny him as family....

Panna, aptly named after Pandora, finds herself swirling in the troubles of war, family disputes, and a pending romance with one of the brothers. Uncertainty about love after the death of her husband, she goes back and forth through the portal, but learns there is a limit to how many times she can go through the portal before it is closed to her forever. She has to make a decision about a passion she thought she'd never feel again, a future in the past or present, all while knowing she can't change the course of history by revealing too much about what is to come in history.

Which side of the portal does she choose, which brother will prevail, can she save her beloved library, and where does love reside when the desire is timeless? Can there be a happily ever after when love is separated by centuries? The story has many surprising and steamy twists as Panna finds a new life for herself.

This story will not disappoint new and familiar fans of Gwyn Cready. The reader will find herself caught up in the drama and trying to find a way for all things to work out for Panna and her love but never guessing what will be revealed in the end. Read more ›

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars time-travel romance July 18, 2012

By D. Antonio

Format:Kindle Edition

A time-travel romance. If you combine the best of contemporary and historical romance you get a Gwen Cready book.
The local Carnegie library is having funding issues (and really who today isn't). In an attempt to find something she can sell to help; librarian Panna Kennedy finds a doorway to 1706 on the Scots English border where she gets involved with the handsome Captain Bridgewater.
If you like dashing men in uniform (even if they are red) and a romp through history with a spunky librarian trying to save the day you will adore this book.
An aside here: I loved the scene where Panna is trying to explain that sex has changed over the last 300 years. Well played Capt. Bridgewater.

More About the Author

I'm the RITA-winning author of sexy, funny romances. My latest book, Timeless Desire, involves a librarian battling budget cuts who discovers a secret passageway in her library that leads to the opulent personal library of the English war hero whose statue looms over her desk. Only he's not quite the man she expected--and the library holds some secrets, too. Find out more at cready.com.

The author photo is copyright 2012, Garen DiBartolomeo.