A Love Through Time by Terri Brisbin is this author's debut novel and an original addition to the Time Passages series published by Penguin Putnam.

This is one of only a few time travel novels I have read where there is more than one person travelling through time at the start of the novel. Desperado by Sandra Hill is another of these unusual books.
 

In A Love Through Time, school teacher Maggie Hobbs and businessman Alex MacKendimen are pushed through a magical doorway which leads them to medieval Scotland where Alex is mistaken for the returning heir and Maggie is assumed to be his leman.

Deciding to go along with the assumptions of the locals Alex and Maggie find that neither of their lives are easy in the Scottish castle.  Alex is betrothed to a fifteen year old girl and is put through the rigourous combat training of the time.

Maggie finds that her problems also arise with Alex's betrothed.  Anice is dangerous and will do anything to remove Maggie from the picture.  Also the benefits that come to the Laird's son are not hers and she finds that her position in the castle is one of the lowest and she struggles to fit into the time she has often read about.

Although Alex and Maggie are strangers when they go through time their plight draws them together and they become friends, and later lovers.

Throughout their time in the past Maggie and Alex are determined to make their stay as short as possible.  Maggie soon stumbles on the magical doorway but the path through time does not work all the time - it is up to Maggie and Alex to discover the secret of the doorway.

Little do they know that they are living on borrowed time and Alesander, the true son of the Laird is returning from England to unmask the imposter who has taken his place.

Guided by Moira, the local healer/wise woman, Maggie and Alex learn that it is Alex who has a lesson to learn before they can return to the future.  But will he learn his lesson before Anice's rage endangers Maggie and Alesander returns.

One of the oddest things about this time travel novel is that when Alex is in the past he acquires a Scottish accent and knowledge of Gaelic.  Obviously the story of taking the heir's place would not work with an American accent - something which many authors seem to forget when they hero's and heroine's take over the life of another person.

There was only one fault I could find with the book and that was the reference to pound notes in England.  These went out of circulation years ago and are no longer legal tender.  However it is a minor point in a thoroughly enjoyable novel and only someone even more picky than I would let such a little thing ruin the pleasure of the book.

A welcome addition to the series and the one with the most beautiful cover too - which can be seen much better at Ms Brisbin's website.

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