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A Margin in Time
An inept sheriff who can’t shoot, ride or spit worth a damn...
Facing the bankruptcy of the family business, J. Barrett Callan accepts his great-great grandfather’s offer to exchange places in time in hopes he can change his future by fixing the past. But if anything, his troubles compound when he ends up in the mining town of Margin, Colorado as an inept sheriff who can’t shoot, ride or spit worth a damn.
There he encounters a “spinster” who serves as the local schoolmarm because the townspeople would never accept her as the doctor she’s trained to be. Will they be able to find a love while working together to keep Margin safe from rampaging miners, crooked investors and a boozy visitor from the future far beyond the 21st century?
Facing the bankruptcy of the family business, J. Barrett Callan accepts his great-great grandfather’s offer to exchange places in time in hopes he can change his future by fixing the past. But if anything, his troubles compound when he ends up in the mining town of Margin, Colorado as an inept sheriff who can’t shoot, ride or spit worth a damn.
There he encounters a “spinster” who serves as the local schoolmarm because the townspeople would never accept her as the doctor she’s trained to be. Will they be able to find a love while working together to keep Margin safe from rampaging miners, crooked investors and a boozy visitor from the future far beyond the 21st century?
352 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 1995
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March 23, 2020
Nice little time travel about a young man on the verge of bankruptcy, who trades places with his great grandfather in 1880's American West, to see if he can change events. DNF. Read 30 percent of this ebook, but find that in my 60's, I'm looking for novels with more bite to them, and less fluff. Not the authors fault, just a change in reading tastes as I age.
December 1, 2013
Barrett Callan switches places with his great great grandfather Johnny Callaghan. Barrett's mission is to right an old wrong which has ruined him in his own time. He doesn't expect to fall in love with no way to bring his beloved back with him nor is this wrong resolved in the way either Johnny or Barrett thinks. This is a fast paced book. It absorbed my attention the entire read. Recommended!
November 27, 2011
This book was great fun to read. Very clever and amusing plot. Old west, romance, and science fiction perfectly blended. This book will grow on you and putting it down is not an option as you approach the end.
August 21, 2009
this one had a different twist than most I've read. most is an accidental time travel. this was an on purpose one. worthy read.
unread-freebies
April 11, 2018To my future self reading this book. You bought this book because it was free, it had good reviews on Amazon, and it’s the first time travel book you’ve seen that the guy goes back in time.
November 19, 2017
A sweet time travel romance that was not over the top or boring. I found the characters to be charming and a throwback to the old west. I enjoyed this read.
August 23, 2018
Very good book
I really enjoyed this book. Time travel fascinates me. Laura weaves a great story. Not just one time traveler but 3. Add a sleazy banker out to rob the the people of their land and Emma &Barret have to save them. Love blossoms but how is that to work when one a time traveler? A surprise ending
I really enjoyed this book. Time travel fascinates me. Laura weaves a great story. Not just one time traveler but 3. Add a sleazy banker out to rob the the people of their land and Emma &Barret have to save them. Love blossoms but how is that to work when one a time traveler? A surprise ending
January 27, 2020
Very good book
I like the idea of time travel so I like reading time travel stories. I've imagined myself traveling in time in situations a bit similar to this story. To change something in my life or someone else's. I enjoyed Miss Hayden's spin on it.
As much as I enjoyed the story, want to point out a mistake. At one point, he says that he's from the 1995, but throughout the rest of the story he's from 2015.
I like the idea of time travel so I like reading time travel stories. I've imagined myself traveling in time in situations a bit similar to this story. To change something in my life or someone else's. I enjoyed Miss Hayden's spin on it.
As much as I enjoyed the story, want to point out a mistake. At one point, he says that he's from the 1995, but throughout the rest of the story he's from 2015.
July 28, 2019
Surprised
Surprised I finished the book. I enjoy a good time travel book,this was not it. This was poorly interpreted. Huge inconsistency in how this happened, from a mirror to a gunshot wound, to shaking hands and touching in the street a serious lack of consistency. Besides this there is a love story which is blossoming.
Surprised I finished the book. I enjoy a good time travel book,this was not it. This was poorly interpreted. Huge inconsistency in how this happened, from a mirror to a gunshot wound, to shaking hands and touching in the street a serious lack of consistency. Besides this there is a love story which is blossoming.
March 15, 2020
This is a wonderful time travel story!
I thoroughly enjoyed it. In discribing it to my husband, he thought he would like to read it also even if he has to figure out the Kindle reader!
This is a humorous, well paced, romantic story. If it wasn't so far fetched it would feel believable. Who knows, time will tell. 😁
I thoroughly enjoyed it. In discribing it to my husband, he thought he would like to read it also even if he has to figure out the Kindle reader!
This is a humorous, well paced, romantic story. If it wasn't so far fetched it would feel believable. Who knows, time will tell. 😁
January 2, 2023
Barrett is in trouble. His company is in trouble. He’s going to jail. Suddenly his mirror starts talking to him. Something about changing history will change his future. That’s how he ends up being a sheriff in the small town of Margin in place of his great great grandfather. That’s where he met Emma. It’s a fun book with a lot of twists and is a delightful read.
July 2, 2019
Found some of the details in early chapters less than clear, but stopped reading when she found the ring. Engraved with 2005, but he graduated in 1985 and he said he was from 1995. Who engraved their class ring with a date other than their grad year?
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July 12, 2019
This is one of the few novels I have read where a guy has traveled through time. I really enjoyed the unique storyline and the the creative ending. This was a neat way to enjoy a story set in the old west.
August 11, 2020
This is a time-travel romance but more of a switched in time story. The story was pretty well done but I just couldn’t understand how the time travel worked. It was never explained well. The story was good and everything but I probably won’t read the next one.
April 13, 2018
I found this to be an entertaining read. Characters were fun to get to know.
May 10, 2018
Fun read for time travel enthusiasts.
Fun read for anyone that likes time travel in the Wild West. Wanted more information to feel closer to the heroine.
Fun read for anyone that likes time travel in the Wild West. Wanted more information to feel closer to the heroine.
June 11, 2018
Clean, sweet and inventive... the guy traveled back in time which is different.
July 1, 2018
Laura Hayden did a good job with this book. Entertaining and funny. Easy read. Will definitely read her other book. Why 4 stars? I dont like Wild West books but this one was ok.
June 24, 2019
Time travel drama
This was a fun twist on time travel stories. The hero found the right gal in the right century. They saved the past and the future. And do t forget to buy IBM.
This was a fun twist on time travel stories. The hero found the right gal in the right century. They saved the past and the future. And do t forget to buy IBM.
June 24, 2019
A different twist for a time travel tale. Swap places with a great great grandfather to see if he can change the history to better his present time situation.
June 26, 2019
“Clean” time travel
into a realistically portrayed Old West with two sweet romances, interesting characters, a strong heroine and deft use by the hero of his boardroom skills.
into a realistically portrayed Old West with two sweet romances, interesting characters, a strong heroine and deft use by the hero of his boardroom skills.
June 27, 2019
Good Book
This was an Good Book. The ending Good, also. I really like This Book and I know y'all will too.
This was an Good Book. The ending Good, also. I really like This Book and I know y'all will too.
February 25, 2020
Excellent
I enjoyed every minute of this story. The whole time concept was entertaining and the characters were well developed and fun!
I enjoyed every minute of this story. The whole time concept was entertaining and the characters were well developed and fun!
August 22, 2020
A few pages in I didn't think that I was interested in the way the story was being set up, but I stuck with it anyway. It turned out to be a fun, fluffy read.
September 13, 2020
2 stars. DNF. Too thin characters and plot.
September 17, 2020
This was fun.
October 16, 2021
It was interesting at some points but I wasn't very intrigued by it.
May 17, 2024
Great time-travel love story!
A fun, light-hearted romp with a glorious message of love that spans generations.
Laura Hayden knocks it out of the park!
A fun, light-hearted romp with a glorious message of love that spans generations.
Laura Hayden knocks it out of the park!
February 21, 2023
Facing the bankruptcy of his company and prison time through no true fault of his own, the hero is astonished to be visited by hid great great grandfather via the bathroom mirror. The old man offers him a change to right all the wrongs of the present time by traveling back to 1890 to stop a man from buying up the mines which in turn leads to the destruction of the hero's company in the future. The hero accepts the mission and is instantly sent back in time and into his great great grandfathers’ body. There, he meets a fellow time traveler, the inn owner who makes him horribly uncomfortable with her aggressive seduction attempts and the beautiful school teacher who becomes his partner in stopping the villain from stealing the land from the townsfolk. But all that becomes put on hold when he's shot one night but a drunk man and needs the heroine- a student of medicine under her deceased father-to save his life.
Nursing him back to health she is confused but elated when the normally stoic and distant sheriff whom she's cursed on for years suddenly gives her the time of day. He believes in her abilities as a doctor and seemed to be attracted to her. He takes her into confidence regarding his time traveling after she finds proof of him being from the future and together they go about saving the town and preventing the hero's disastrous future.
Though I sort of enjoyed this book in parts, by the end I concluded that this book was a complete waste of time. Never once was I ever excited for what would come next and the whole book was painted in beige monotones. There was zero passion between the characters and if not for a thin layer of humor laced through it, I felt both characters were lifeless and dull. The story was stupid, the plot was completely pointless and the font was sized big enough that my elderly grandmother could read it. Overall, it was a disappointment and waste of money... Good thing I got it for free. Lol.
Nursing him back to health she is confused but elated when the normally stoic and distant sheriff whom she's cursed on for years suddenly gives her the time of day. He believes in her abilities as a doctor and seemed to be attracted to her. He takes her into confidence regarding his time traveling after she finds proof of him being from the future and together they go about saving the town and preventing the hero's disastrous future.
Though I sort of enjoyed this book in parts, by the end I concluded that this book was a complete waste of time. Never once was I ever excited for what would come next and the whole book was painted in beige monotones. There was zero passion between the characters and if not for a thin layer of humor laced through it, I felt both characters were lifeless and dull. The story was stupid, the plot was completely pointless and the font was sized big enough that my elderly grandmother could read it. Overall, it was a disappointment and waste of money... Good thing I got it for free. Lol.
September 16, 2018
There was a margin in my reading tie
Quite by accident, or perhaps a temporal quirj,I advanced this book to read AND rated it. However,factor I would pass through my library I got a distinct feeling I had not read it. To finally going through my time waro,Ifinishedit
Quite by accident, or perhaps a temporal quirj,I advanced this book to read AND rated it. However,factor I would pass through my library I got a distinct feeling I had not read it. To finally going through my time waro,Ifinishedit
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