Echoes of Tomorrow by Jenny Lykins is the sixth book in Penguin Putnam's Time Passages series.

Echoes of Tomorrow is quite easily my favourite book out of the Time Passages series.  This is because after all the disbelieving men in the previous books, whose reasons for disbelief are often pure stubbornness, finally here is a man time travelling.

Reed Blackwell travels into the future not the past so in some ways his experience is less of an ordeal than those who go backwards.  After all his biggest challenge is discovering how to drink a can of coke without making a fool of himself.

Reed also has the advantage that Elise Gerard witnessed his materialisation, on her bed no less, and is more open minded than most people.

As Elise shows Reed her world of the 20th century they fall in love and, as there seems no way back to 1844, Reed decides to make a life with Elise in the future.

What Reed doesn't know is that it was his maid's tea, a bewitched potion, that sent him to the future, and when he drinks more on his wedding day he disappears home again leaving Elise to follow him.

Once in 1844 things take on the route of a regular time travel - Elise is in the past, Reed has lost his memory of the future, and her, and guess who doesn't believe a word she's saying.

Reed is now engaged to be married and the clock is ticking for Elise to help him remember her.  So it's plots, plots and more plots, some hilariously funny as Elise tries to recreate the future for the benefit of Reed.

A delightful tale of time travelling romance that leaves everything in the air to the last possible minute.

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Also by Jenny Lykins:   Lost Yesterday, Waiting for Yesterday, Distant Dreams and River of Dreams.

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