"Heartwarming time travel"

Kane Edmonds lives in a time of a deadly disease, more lethal than any other disease in the history of mankind. BV- 5 is stoppable only with the Kabitross plant, a plant that is extinct in her time. Holding the lives of mankind in her hands, Kane agrees to go back in time to 1776 and find the Kabitross plant.

Arriving in a strange land in a strange time, she relies on her implanted knowledge of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries to see her through. She was determined to find the Kabitross plant and save her people, no matter what.

When she meets George Wyndom, she finds a man whom not only can she trust with her life and the lives of those in 2429, but also with her heart. Falling in love was the last thing she planned, but the heart sometimes does as it wills.

Together, they are determined to not only find the plant, but also find a way for Kane to stay with George for all time.

BEFORE THE FIRE is a heart warming and oftentimes humorous journey into the past. Jaid Black, writing as Tia Isabella, weaves an intricate storyline, where the secondary characters have their own minor stories to tell that only enhance the love story between George and Kane.

Rated: Hard R by the publisher.

Reviewed by Michelle Houston
Courtesy Sensual Romance
Posted December 16, 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.