"Time Travel with a twist"

Kane is a Planabotonologist at NASA headquarters in Houston in the year 2429 AD. She searchs for and collects plant life from various planets to make medicines for the people of her time. Linder, her boss and friend, has asked her to take a trip through time and try to find the "kabitross" plant. This plant has a cure for the dreaded disease BV-5, which has inhabited their time, and Linder's grandson is stricken with it. BV-5 is a Brain Virus that lays dormant in the body for seventeen months then attacks the brain full force. It literally implodes the brain and death is inevitable. Of course Kane agrees to go, even though the Time Travel has not been perfected as yet.

Kane arrives unscathed in the eighteenth century 1776. She has a house just on the outskirts of Blackmore, England. She is taken with the beauty of the countryside, the grass, trees, birds, animals are all things she has never seen in her 26 years. She has just read of them from the history books and tapes. She has been implanted with a serum that gives her instant knowledge of the time but unfortunately it is not all exact. The history of Kane's time did not have a lot of information about the eighteenth century.

Kane meets the humanoid of her dreams while she is bathing nude in a nearby pond. George William Frederick Alexander Wyndom, ninth Earl of Blackmore and heir to the Duke of Browning, was riding through his lands and heard singing. He watched Kane for a while before he introduced himself to her. They were immediately attracted to each other and the storyline continues.

The way Kane's life and learning of the "old ways", her talents, are used to help the people of Blackmore makes for a very good read. George has an archrival who vows to kill Kane and George so he can inherit the title which he believes he is owed. The suspense keeps the story flowing. Kame must decide whether to stay and live out her life in this new time.

I totally enjoyed this book and will read it again one day.

Rated by R Ellora's Cave.

Reviewed by Shirley Alguire
Courtesy Sensual Romance
Posted October 19, 2002

Summary

The inhabitants of 25th century earth are dying. A deadly brain virus is taking a large death toll and it is up to one scientist to stop it. The problem for Dr. Kane Edmonds is that the one form of plant-life she believes is necessary for a cure has long been extinct, dwelling nowhere else within the solar systems except the earth's past. Kane plans for every contingency when she agrees to travel through time to hunt down the life-saving plant. Every contingency, that is, except for falling in love. When Kane meets George Wyndom, the dark and formidable Earl of Blackmore, she wonders if she'll ever be able to let him go. What Kane doesn't understand is that she has no say in the matter, for the handsome earl is determined to keep her.