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The Whirlpools of Time

By Anna Belfrage

 

He hoped for a wife. He found a companion through time and beyond.

It is 1715 and for Duncan Melville something fundamental is missing from his life. Despite a flourishing legal practice and several close friends, he is lonely, even more so after the recent death of his father. He needs a wife—a companion through life, someone to hold and be held by. What he wasn’t expecting was to be torn away from everything he knew and find said woman in 2016…

Erin Barnes has a lot of stuff going on in her life. She doesn’t need the additional twist of a stranger in weird outdated clothes, but when he risks his life to save hers, she feels obligated to return the favour. Besides, whoever Duncan may be, she can’t exactly deny the immediate attraction.

The complications in Erin’s life explode. Events are set in motion and to Erin’s horror she and Duncan are thrown back to 1715. Not only does Erin have to cope with a different and intimidating world, soon enough she and Duncan are embroiled in a dangerous quest for Duncan’s uncle, a quest that may very well cost them their lives as they travel through a Scotland poised on the brink of rebellion. 

Will they find Duncan’s uncle in time? And is the door to the future permanently closed, or will Erin find a way back?

Duncan Melville has grown up on the outskirts of his family, never quite fitting in, and Erin Barnes is in the possession of a locket that another family would literally kill for. The only thing separating these two characters is that Duncan lives in 1715, and Erin in 2016.

One fateful journey, Duncan finds himself at a crossroads during a storm and, with his Grandma Alex’s warning about the dangers of crossroads in the back of his head, Duncan is transported through time.

This book is quite literally a whirlwind. After meeting each other, it quickly becomes clear that Duncan and Erin would, and do, pass through time for each other, and that nothing as fickle as a couple of centuries could keep them apart. They each have their own dangers, and while travelling back to a different century provides temporary safety, it seems that they must always turn back and face their enemies. 

There are some truly horrible characters that I absolutely loathed, in this book, and you can’t help but want Duncan to run them through with a sword, or for Erin to pick up a pistol and shoot them. I know that sounds truly awful but that is how awful they are.

The relationship between Erin and Duncan is very strong, even though they have not known each other for very long. Their bond seems unbreakable, even though they sometimes get into arguments, having grown up in different times and having different expectations for what they should be able to have, and do.

Of course, this book is not purely a time travel romance, there is so much more depth to it than that. There is danger and intrigue, murders to solve and people to find. Duncan joins forces, although somewhat unwillingly, with a constable as the story starts to run deeper and the Jacobites grow more and more restless. There is certainly a rebellion brewing on the horizon.

The differences between the time periods that Erin and Duncan know are stark, and Erin’s fears and astonishments at having to adjust to eighteenth-century clothing and ideologies have been written wonderfully.  I could sympathise with what Erin was going through, and her reactions to events were completely believable.

I loved reading this book, and I  recommend it to anyone who wants a romance with action, adventure, danger, rebellion and mystery, all rolled into one.

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 Anna Belfrage

Had Anna been allowed to choose, she’d have become a time-traveller. As this was impossible, she became a financial professional with two absorbing interests: history and writing. Anna has authored the acclaimed time travelling series The Graham Saga, set in 17th century Scotland and Maryland, as well as the equally acclaimed medieval series The King’s Greatest Enemy which is set in 14th century England. 

 

Anna has also published The Wanderer, a fast-paced contemporary romantic suspense trilogy with paranormal and time-slip ingredients. Her September 2020 release, His Castilian Hawk, has her returning to medieval times. Set against the complications of Edward I’s invasion of Wales, His Castilian Hawk is a story of loyalty, integrity—and love. Her most recent release, The Whirlpools of Time, is a time travel romance set against the backdrop of brewing rebellion in the Scottish highlands.

 

All of Anna’s books have been awarded the IndieBRAG Medallion, she has several Historical Novel Society Editor’s Choices, and one of her books won the HNS Indie Award in 2015. She is also the proud recipient of various Reader’s Favorite medals as well as having won various Gold, Silver and Bronze Coffee Pot Book Club awards. 

 

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Thank you to The Coffee Pot Book Club for giving me the opportunity to read this book.