Waiting for Yesterday by Jenny Lykins is the seventh book in Penguin Putnam's continuing Time Passages series.

Barrett Overbrook has a guardian angel with her.  When she witnesses the wedding of her twin sister to her ex-boyfriend she runs from the world to a tiny hotel where no one can find her.

But when she goes to sleep in 1997 she never dreamed that her guardian angel would cause her to wake up in 1887, in the middle of giving birth.

I don't know what the fascination is with women time travelling into another body, where the person is either in the middle of giving birth or just finished (see Banishment and Once in Every Life ) but a lot of writers seem to choose this as the moment of entry into the past.  I am waiting for a man to travel back (or forward) in time into a woman's body as she is giving birth.  That would be brilliant providing it was done well.

Barratt soon recovers from the birth and eventually, like most time travellers, comes to realise that she is not dreaming, that she is not in a living nightmare, and that she had better get used to the idea.

So married, with a new baby she sets about making a life in 1887.  But this is not without the usual problems of no 20th century conveniences and appliances, and the added problem that her husband seems to hate her.

As she befriends the locals of the town, none can deny that she has changed for Elizabeth was not overly friendly with the people of the town and disliked by many of them.  This new Elizabeth makes friends with most of them and bears no prejudice against any of them as her predecessor did.

The person who takes the longest to win round is her husband Chase, but eventually she succeeds.  But not all the barriers are down.  Barrett still does not know what happened between Chase and Elizabeth - and only finds out the hard way, when she makes the same mistake and finds herself alone.

With a locket from her guardian angel holding the key to the future she knows that she is not trapped in the past, but has she the courage to return to the 20th century and leave Chase and her son Adam behind?

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Also by Jenny Lykins:   Lost Yesterday, Echoes of Tomorrow,  Distant Dreams, and River of Dreams.

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