Yesterday and Forever
Yesterday and Forever by Victoria Alexander is currently out of print.
I was lucky enough to find a copy at
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Romance Haven - an online book store that specialises in used books.
Set in Regency London this time travel romance has within it's pages the most broad-minded hero of any time travel romance novel I have ever read.
Adam Coleridge is a nobleman with no time for love. His time is spent trying to control his rebellious sister Lydia and arrange a suitable marriage for her. An impossible task which the delightful Lydia does her best to thwart at every turn. Finally Adam has had enough and strikes a bargain with Lydia. Either she will find herself a suitable husband within one month, or she will find herself packed off to the country and away from the social whirl of London.
Margaret Masterson is an artist from 1995 on holiday with her sister Kiki in London. On a misty night she takes a ride in a Regency period carriage and when thrown from the conveyance she finds herself in the year 1818 and on the doorstep of Adam Coleridge.
Unconscious and helpless Maggie is taken into the home of Adam and Lydia. While she is sleeping Adam and Lydia search through the contents of her purse, hoping to discover some clue of who their mysterious and strangely dressed guest is. Instead what they find is more fantastic than anything they could have imagined. Photos, magazines, cosmetics and all the usual mundane contents of a woman of the 90's handbag. Before Maggie has even recovered consciousness Adam is certain that she is from the future. Admittedly he has more than enough evidence before his eyes, but even so he takes this piece of news remarkably calmly and well. Some heroes can travel to the future, return to the past and still refuse to believe their eyes. Adam's remarkable reaction to time travel has quickly made him one of my favourite heroes of this genre.
When Maggie awakens in the past she soon, with the help of Adam and Lydia, accepts that she is in Regency England. When she was in the future the month of the year had been May, now she finds herself in April. Therefore Maggie is certain that when she reaches the date of the year that she left 1995 the carriage will return for her and take her back to the future.
So Maggie finds herself with a month to stir up trouble in Regency London with the help of the mischievous Lydia, who sees the arrival of Maggie as the perfect solution to distract her brother from his threats to send her to the country. If she can somehow find a way to matchmake between Adam and Maggie, her brother will not have the time to re-arrange her life.
But it is not only Lydia's plotting that brings Maggie and Adam together and as the day of the return of the coach draws nearer Maggie finds that she does not want to leave. But whether she wants to or not the coach will be calling for her.
Added to this mixture of love and mischief Lydia is not the only member of the 'ton' with a hidden agenda and there are those who would do anything to keep Adam and Maggie apart.
A wonderfully humorous novel and well worth searching the used book stores for.
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Also by Victoria Alexander: The Princess and the Pea; The Perfect Wife; The Emperor's New Clothes; Play it Again, Sam and Believe.
Victoria Alexander has also written 3 novellas for anthologies - Promises to Keep; Shakespeare and the Three Kings and One Magic Moment (October 98)
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