Thunder on the Moor
By Andrea Matthews
Maggie Armstrong grew up with tales of blood feuds and border raids, so when her father takes her back four hundred and fifty years to his Scottish home, she is enchanted. Enchanted, that is, until her uncle announces his intentions to betroth her to Ian Rutherford, the son of a neighboring laird. Maggie’s twentieth century sensibilities are outraged, but refusal to agree could ignite a blood feud. Maggie’s worlds are colliding. Betrayal, treachery, and a tragic murder have her questioning whether she should remain or try to make her way back to her own time. To make matters worse, tensions escalate when she stumbles across handsome Englishman, Will Foster. But could he be the hero she’s always dreaded of or will his need for revenge against Ian shatter more than her heart?
Maggie Armstrong cannot remember a time when she had not been enthralled by her father’s stories. But what if there “stories” were not actually stories? What if they were happening right now? Well, not quite right now, but… Instead of going with her father on another archeological dig, he takes her back in time to the sixteenth century.
I adore time-travel novels and I am always fascinated with how authors come up with original ideas as to how the time-travel is accomplished. I adored how this story played out. Maggie’s father was born in the 16th Century only to be transported to the future—25 years later, and the reverse happens. Only this time, he is taking Maggie with him.
This novel really captured my attention, and I also highlighted how vastly different this time was to our own. Time-travel always sounds so wildly romantic, but in reality, especially if you are a woman, the past could not have been, well, more in the past. Imagine a world with no woman suffrage, where women’s rights were few, where there were different expectations. Maggie has to come to terms with what has happened, and she has to find away to live in this strange world that her father has taken her to.
I loved everything about this story. The characters were larger than life. The historical setting was masterfully portrayed, and at all times the story seemed plausible. Sometimes time-travel novels can be a little hit and miss, but in the case of Thunder on the Moor it is certainly a hit.
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Andrea
Matthews is
the pseudonym for Inez Foster, a historian and librarian who loves to read and
write and search around for her roots, genealogical speaking. In fact, it was
while doing some genealogical research that she stumbled across the history of
the Border reivers. The idea for her first novel came to mind almost at once,
gradually growing into the Thunder on the Moor series. And the rest, as they
say, is history…
Great Review!!
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