Like all of Linda Howard's romantic suspense, this is fast-paced and smooth reading, but ultimately it failed as both a suspense and a romance. The time travel element was the big problem, in my opinion. I found it to be confusing and underdeveloped.

On the suspense side of things, I'm still not really clear about the motives of the bad guys in this book and it didn't feel like anything was really resolved, especially in the future. I still have a hundred questions about what the bad guys were trying to accomplish and while they seemed to have been stopped in the present day, the larger conspiracy was still at large in the future and I didn't see what would stop them from sending someone else back in time to complete their mission. I was also really unclear about what the plans for the time machine were doing in the time capsule in the first place.

On the romance side of things, it was just resolved too easily. Throughout the story, we have the tension caused by the idea that she couldn't stay in the past and he couldn't go forward to the future. But then in the end, it turned out that her life in the future wasn't all that great and that she was really much better off in the past. Way too easy, IMO. You got to work for these things.

This is only the second Linda Howard I've read that I didn't care for, and I've read at least 8 or 10 by now, so I would definitely continue to recommend the author, just not this particular book.